The following post is written to all bloggers who talk about donating to charity based on the number of comments they get, the number of MyBlogLog members they get, or anything else that means more readers or money for them or their blogs.
I am seeing a continuing trend on a few blogs where many bloggers are talking more and more about how they want to donate to charity. These bloggers say that they will donate something for every comment they get on their site. While this may seem like a nice thing to do, think about this: if your own life, or the life of your father, mother, daughter, son, sister or brother, depended on the number of comments on your site, would you feel good about it? Would you not wonder why your life depends on the number of comments a rich person gets?
Do you donate because it is a good thing, or do you donate to get more blog traffic and comments?
It is a good thing to tell people to donate. It is an even better thing to donate yourself. However, in my view, it is not a good thing to use the poor and homeless people, who need help, to get yourself more comments. Manipulating people’s emotions to get more clicks and comments on your site so that you can donate to charity means that you are not willing to help others without getting something back along the way. For many blogs, more comments mean more traffic, which results in more money through ads. Thus, you are simply going to give charity only if you can get more customers.
What happens if you do not get even a single comment? Are you going to change your rules and donate anyhow? Why not donate right away in the first place when people are dying because of hunger and other things every single hour, instead of playing marketing gimmicks on innocent people’s lives so that you can get more traffic and more comments on your blog?
Do not let innocent lives hang on a thread simply because you crave for more comments
If you want to tell people to donate, go ahead. But if you want to donate yourself, do it without any hesitation, and do it without being selfish or without looking for a return investment. The people who are in need have done nothing bad to you, so try to help them and not base your donations on the number of customers or comments you get. That is not respectful to the people in need, as their lives are worth more than the number of comments you will ever receive.
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