Nigerian Bloggers! A Consistent Nightmare.

First of all, I am that writer. The one without a blog, the one who may never own one. However, when I Google my name, it is not my medium link that comes up. It is not my Facebook profile either, it is something else--my name on the sites of blogs I do not know about! The horror!

Everytime I write a Facebook post and see shares, the first thing that comes into my mind is ‘which trying-to-grow-traffic Blogger is seeing this right now?’.

Since I cannot tell who they are, I wait for some days after the post has been made, and I Google my full name. Guess what? I have never for once been disappointed.

Yes, I know you are going to tell me all about how anything that goes on Facebook is no longer private, yes, I get the memo, can we move on? Thank you.

I just wish I’d be informed first. Like ‘Hey, I’m about to take a post you made, make a really silly click bait title out of it, then have people come to my blog to read it.’

I may agree, and better yet, give them a better picture to use. I mean, there are some really not-so-amazing pictures of me on blogs.

You know why this hurts? Because I have better ones.

On more serious note, I get it. We all want to be the next LIB, the next Bellanaija. However, the posts on my wall won’t get you there. Especially the writers at opera news hub. I have run out of ‘Re- My Plagiarised Work on Your Platform’ mail subjects to send out. If I have to send anyone of those mails and end them with ‘Kind regards’ when I sincerely want to pull someone’s hair out, I’ll lose a hair strand.

I think contents are hard to come up with, so I understand the need to grab onto anything. Again, the posts on my Facebook wall won’t take you to the Bellanaija standard. You’ll just end up as a trashy online blog. Get this, people grow up. Eventually, people will be tired of your trashy posts, and move on to other things.

What will you do then?

Let people be able to make their posts online without fear of blogs and bloggers.

Gail