Is It A Blog Eat Blog World? Mommy Bloggers & Social Networking. Success In Bloggyland. (Amusing).

  

Is It A Blog Eat Blog World?  Mommy Bloggers & Social Networking.  Success In Bloggyland.  (Amusing).

4-23-2011 

 

  

         Mommy bloggers rule the world! 

This is just my husband’s take as we sit in the car and he annoys me with his ‘I know everything’ attitude.  Surely, you all know that little song and dance.  Honestly, if they knew everything, they would be…well, they would be women. :) 

 

That’s not fair, there’s a lot of great guys out there.  My apologies to those specific guys who do appreciate the intellectual minds of the female species, and support them whole-heartedly.

 

 Anyhow, he says that, ‘ The key to having a successful blog Shel, has nothing to do with making friends and chit chatting, and getting as many followers and fans etc. as you can.  ‘I’ll follow you back’ and all of that jazz.’  I laughed as if he even knew what he was talking about.  Perhaps he’s been following my daily travels in cyberspace.  Hmm..you never know.  Think he knows what ‘poke’ means on Facebook?  Ha ha. Ok, I confess I only recently found out myself, but nevertheless.

 

At any rate, I do believe quality content is #1, but there are other things that are important in bloggyworld.  Things like social networking.  I personally belong to a gazilion and 1 social networking sites.  Can I ever possibly get to them all, and keep up?  I don’t think any living, breathing, human being, even without any family at all.  Not even someone single without so much as a puppy dog, possibly could.  And it gets stressful at times, even minutely attempting to. 

 

 

Social networking overload.  Hey, it happens.

 

But do I tweet and Facebook?  Whenever I can..YES, absolutely.  Am I much more into blogging, and just writing in general?  Yes, it’s my passion, and I don’t get much time for the other stuff.  My blog posts do get linked to some of those sites, because I feel it’s important, and after that sometimes I have time for a comment or two for my fellow bloggy sisters. Unfortunately, at times I do not.

 

Granted, if you are looking to make the big bucks in the blog eat blog world, I don’t think making social acquaintances unless you hit pay dirt with the right one(s), are not very likely going to help you rise up and become one of the most popular blogs on the planet, and earn a ton of money, however I feel this way.  What is success really?

 

I think making friends and being a good friend is part of that experience.  Helping others and finding support in life any way you can find it or give it, can help lead you to success in any facet of life, and in the process help you also lead others there to.  Sometimes people need a little inspiration… a tiny nudge.  Some support. 

 

Sometimes, you could be that person for somebody else.  Sometimes you need that in return.  Is that a waste of time?  Absolutely not.  I’m sure there are many a great blogger out there who would have given up on their blog if it weren’t for the kind words of encouragement from a cyber friend or two, and now they have great success in both blogness & in life. 

 

Besides, we NEED blogger friends.  How many of you mommy bloggers out there, are talking to the moms at the PTA meetings or waiting outside the school yard for your kids, about the latest topics on your blog?   Probably not many of you.  Heck, I want to be able to be free, honest, and unleashed, so of course I’m not going to be blabbing about it to anybody who knows me.

 

God forbid they get to know the real me, we live in such a sadly repressed and suppressed society, where we are forced to be a certain way, and even as adults get judged easily.  I hate that.  To a stranger I’ll sometimes tell, but you know what I’m saying.   Plus, they don’t get it, because I don’t know about you, but I have never actually met a mommy blogger in real life.  Online you can connect with endless amounts of them with the click of a mouse.  How amazing is that?

 

The quote un quote ‘real world’ is so judgemental, and our world here in cyberspace is much more forgiving, and welcoming.  Some of us don’t fit in well with the real life moms, and find we fit in beautifully with thousands of others online.  Is that a crime, wanting to stick together? 

 

 Granted chit chat is not profitable in the monetary sense, but therapeutically for a mom who cleans spit up off of their blouses, chisels poopie out of hiney cracks, scrubs crayon off the bathroom tile, watches annoying tv shows that make their heads spin, and pretends to be able to stand it. 

 

Puts dinner on the table, and still manages to find the time to type a few words on top of it all, and get in an ounce of shut eye somewhere in between, including shouting out an occasional, ‘Oh baby, yeah baby’.  (She) we are damn heroes, and are already what I deem to be ’successes.’

 

So yes hubby, it may be to you a waste of the few short minutes I have to remember, ‘Oh yeah..that’s right.  I am a woman not just chauffeur, mom, cook, maid, and writer.’   I mean put a pen to the paper honey and see if you can spit out what I do in 10 minutes in 10 years. Ok, I thought not.  So why do you open up your big fat mouth then? 

 

We are women, we know what we’re doing, and we do it well.  Then guess what?  I walk into his room.  (It becomes his room when he comes home from work in the early A.M.)  He’s a night worker.  It’s only OUR room on his night’s off. 

 

I see a glowing light coming from behind a lump in the covers.  Sure as what I just changed in one of the twins’ diapers, there is hubby reading up on the people he follows on Twitter.  Charlie Sheen?  And this is a waste of time?  His secret sins revealed.  (Sorry to any Sheen fans out there.  I never saw 2 and 1/2 men.  Don’t hate. :lol: )  Now honey..THAT’S rich!

 

Women who blog & are moms are amazing.  Share the love.  It will always empower you!  I just wish I had more time to comment, chat, and share love with others, but believe me, even when I don’t have much time to, I am still doing it in my heart, and are here for anyone, at any time that they need me.  Bloggy moms stick together.

 

 In closing, always remember.  No matter how big or small your blog is, or if you are reading this and don’t even write a blog at all, just read them.  Or you simply ended up here by chance.  You are important in life, and successful.  A special human being put in this world to shape and change it for the better.  Never let anybody tell you any differently.  Keep on doing what you’re doing, and thanks for reading.  He’d say how unprofessional of me, this post.  I think not.

 

‘I write what I feel, and I feel what I write.  Always write from your heart & love with it as well.  Keep on writing mommies!’     - Mama P.