Checking Out The Pinoy Bloggers Community Down Memory Lane

I just joined the Pinoy Bloggers group in Facebook. It’s just out of curiousity really. I’m such a bad group member that I dare not raise my head in any group I join lest I be hammered down so I won’t stand out too much. Heh. Of course I know about this group from waaay before. If you’ve been blogging for as long as I have and you’re a Filipino, chances are you’d want to seek out like minded individuals to, you know, talk about same stuff.

Unfortunately for me, I have the attention span of a gnat. Less than an hour into a conversation, I get bored and couldn’t wait to get the hell out of wherever or whatever I am currently in.

I had my brief fling with blogging groups before and while talks revolved around PRs and traffic and Alexa rankings, I was more interested in the alcohol and how to drink myself to a stupor from zero to sixty seconds. It’s much, much more acceptable to be a smiling drunk than to be honest and piss people off. Especially if those people are bloggers who can’t hold their keyboards. Before you know it, you’ll find yourself getting eviscerated online for being such a tool.

It was interesting reading the posts in that group. Some posts/comments reminded me when I was such a newbie blogger that I couldn’t comprehend the idea of monetizing a blog.

‘But your blog is your soul!’
‘How can you sell your soul!?’
‘Heh, here’s $200, now shut up and give me 2 backlinks from your homepage.’
‘$200?? (thinks about Havaianas and a Gap shirt)’
‘OK. Done (gap-toothed smile)!’

And the contests! Free domain name for a year! Free hosting for a year! Free suka from Aling Juaning! lol.

Good times..

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