Moms who Blog
“I think that the influx of advertising and paid blogging gave people the feeling that the blog was not as personal anymore,” says Jen Lawrence, a Toronto mother of two and the creator of MUBAR. “Mom bloggers were also starting to see other mom bloggers not as colleagues but as competition for advertising dollars or paid blogging positions.”
When she started following blogs way back in late 2003, Lawrence felt people treated each other with a certain amount of respect because blogs—in contrast to public chat rooms or bulletin boards which often saw “flame wars” and other forms of bullying—were seen as a very personal space. “Insulting someone on their blog was tantamount to insulting them in their living room after they had invited you over for tea,” she says. “But, as Cyndi Lauper wisely sang, money changes everything.”
Blog watchers say that the boom days for creating new blogs hit their peak last October, which might mean the peak days of nastiness in this realm may be waning, too. You can sidestep a lot of the alphamom behaviour by choosing your blogging friends wisely, just as you do in the real world.
Most moms find that blogging is a fun, albeit highly addictive, habit. As Good puts it: “When it comes to reading blogs, it’s like following Alice down a rabbit hole: there are entire worlds for me to explore, ready and waiting in my computer.”
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