This is a thought that was intended to be only a few lines long, and yet it has turned into an extensive article of some sort. Since personal thoughts are important and even a single thought can be expressed in a dozen books, I hope you do not mind the length of this article, as the message inside it is very dear to me. I appreciate your time reading this, if you decide to read it all. If not, I appreciate your time reading this very paragraph. Knowing someone has read even a single letter written by me on my site is a very interesting feeling.

This thought and endless variations of it have been on my mind since the beginning. I am noticing an increasing trend where an increasing number of bloggers are manipulating their readers in order to make money. More and more blogs are talking about making money in different ways, and more and more people are saying that their blog readers come first, when in reality all they are doing is saying things, without actually doing anything. In this article, when it comes to talking about the idea of manipulating, you can keep in mind that money is usually a big factor why people manipulate others. Also, you can keep in mind that by the the very words “writing” and “reading” and any of their variants, I am referring to all forms of creating thoughts and all forms of feeling those thoughts, including writing and reading, speaking and hearing, producing and feeling, touching, etc.

It is sad, yet not completely surprising that that original personal blogs, from the original days, which did and do nothing but talk about random things because they want to, are slowly disappearing. They are being replaced by blogs that exist in order to make money, and blogs that are highly influenced by the idea of money earned directly or indirectly through and because of those blogs. I wonder if the simplest of personal blogs are the least manipulative compared to other kinds of blogs.

Simplest personal blogs aim only to be heard – nothing else

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