The Wall is stronger than my head

Online experience can be fun with all those games, interesting blogs, communities, videos and all kind of miracles, waiting there, just a click away. But I have learned how web life also has its dark sides and some of them can be very dangerous.

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When I found out how blogging can be profitable I thought it’s a piece of cake to be a blogger and if I can cash in my hobby, it just can’t get any better. I was wrong.

Posting for myself is easy and fun. I don’t have deadlines, I write whatever is on my mind, I don’t care if anyone reads my stuff. Blogging for money is different story. First, you had to write more often and more under pressure to have new content every day and very soon, blogging becomes occupation, a job, not a hobby any more.

Statistics become everything. How many visits, how many comments, get new backlinks, read more blogs and so on. In a short period of time I found myself completely different person. I was not writing about interesting stuff, but top 10 lists and stupid Britney Spears rumors. I become stat-addict, checking those numbers like a lunatic every 15 minutes.

But nothing happened. I didn’t make big money, just a few bucks and I realized I can’t brake the wall with my head. It is that simple. If something doesn’t work, drop it!

Now I’m happy again with my blogging. I don’t try to become problogger, I write for the fun of it. I have new interests and time to explore them and that’s something I didn’t have in my stat-addicts days.