Writingbolt's Creation

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Okay.  It’s one thing to get people “following” my blog who run businesses of their own and have shady accounts with smiling faces snatched from free photo spaces for profile images, to look “legit.”  These “businesses” claim to be following blogs to get little links at the bottom of their web pages, some sort of content supplying they need to do for some ad-space reason?  I don’t know.

It’s a whole other thing for some Amazon.com source to start flooding my blog with “follows” from people with pictures and links that merely suck you into sale pages for whatever they are selling.  I don’t think the links even correspond to the people in the profile photos.  Again, they are just photos taken from some free space online to represent people of some kind.

WordPress!

Get it together, or I am pulling the plug on this blog.  And, you can take your 33 percent of the internet to the MySpace graveyard!!  And, I feel sorry for anyone else who is going through this crap.  Probably because we are not paying to use our space and get “premium” support.  Whatever.

Are you going to come out and say it?  Are you?  Are we saying it?  Are we saying the age of free internet anything is over?  It’s all paid and basic labeled premium, while the real premium is some inside-trading secret for those with more resources and status?  Just say it then.

Ya know.  Not everyone online is running a business out of their spare room.  Not everyone has an Etsy shop or boutique.  Not everyone has sold their soul to the big merch’ monopoly of this world.  SOME OF US blog for more carefree, personal reasons.  And, if we have to pay to do that, to share our thoughts and stories from home, well, I think we can find better ways to use that energy and thought process.  [Suddenly, a paper journal doesn’t sound so lame…even if it’s just screaming into a pillow instead of group therapy.]  And, obviously, charity is an endangered species, along with human kindness.  Though, freebies sure find their way to get around, often to those who don’t care or need them.  And, the landfills aren’t getting any thinner.

Is this just one more voice in the world telling me I am wasting my time here?  No, not here, son.  You can’t be your creative self here.  It’s not the place or time.  It’s sell or be sold.

To borrow a page from a followed blogger’s book, insanity bites.  There.  I said it.

This is starting to peeve me off.