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to not understand mum blogging

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stopfuckingshoutingatme · 27/01/2017 11:43

I can understand why people do it, they have something to do, feel busy and hopefully get advertorials or some sort of money

Its the readers, why would you read a blog written by a bog standard Mum? isn't there anything better to read?

about life as a working Mum of 2 crazee kids, my commute and LIDL versus Waitrose, and some nicked recipes

I means that's boring right? Confused

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Hhuhh · 28/01/2017 07:57

My dds love watching Daily Bumps on You Tube. Drives me crackers! They then take on the accents.

Mine too. I draw the line at the Shaytards. They also love Family Fun Pack, who have a channel, all their kids have their own channel, and a kids cooking channel. They make a shit ton of money I'm sure. The not even veiled advertising makes me sick frankly. Let's eat seventeen different kinds of OREOS, do they taste nice kids? And the things they do.... let's ride bikes and a boat down the stairs, let's jump off furniture... Bonkers.
There is one Mormon family I like watching with them as the mum appears so lovely and an actual human being

SemiNormal · 28/01/2017 08:01

A LOT of blogs host giveaways through Rafflecopter or Gleam. They then set the options to on those to follow with BlogLovin', Twitter, Facebook, give them Klout, Comment on other blog posts, Subscribe to Youtube/Instagram/Pinterest etc - all of these options will get you extra entries into the giveaway. If it's a fairly decent prize there are LOADS of people who will follow on all these platforms which obviously massively boosts the blogs numbers. Those who run them all the time, well I imagine that only a small handfull of follows will actually read the blog.
The more followers/subscribers then the more companies will pay you for posts or give you really nice things to review and keep, also a lot will give you stuff to host giveaways. Then there are the affiliate links that people make money from. (I only know this because I used to be a 'Comper' - someone who enters lots of competitions).

It's not my kind of thing but I see why people do it, a few bloggers have become extremely successful and have been able to give up work living off their blog. Good luck to them, I'd love to be able to work from home in my own hours - that said I think the successful ones will have had to really work hard for it. Personally I don't read them and wouldn't write them but each to their own.

steff13 · 28/01/2017 08:20

Didn't The Pioneer Woman start out as a mom blogger? Now she has a tv show on Food Network, and a line of cookware.

I was under the impression that most people started them not necessarily to get other people to read them, but just for themselves. Like a journal, but online.

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 08:25

Oh, here we go. Thought MN was doing well lately, not had one of these threads for a while.
Last week it was people were middle aged and sad who did Rock Choir, and who sing awful, now it's mummy bloggers are pointless. Hmm
Why can't people just accept others have different hobbies and not try and knock people down all the time?

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 08:28

Keep a diary if you must log every second of your life.

Grin Says someone on MN writing stuff online for people to see.... Grin (irony)
Fueledwithfairydustandgin · 28/01/2017 08:36

I love part time working mummy and Peter and Jane. Agree the unmumsy mum isn't the same as it used to be

ShowMePotatoSalad · 28/01/2017 08:38

Worra popular blogs have online communities of their own. Blog posts end up acting as discussion points. It's not exactly the same but it's a very similar premise.

sobeyondthehills · 28/01/2017 08:42

blushes I write a blog and it is hard work, if you want to get some sort of a following.

I don't have any freebies, advertising, anything like that.

Julia2016 · 28/01/2017 08:42

Love the daily Peter and Jane blog! Very well written, the lady will definitely get a book deal.

AHedgehogCanNeverBeBuggered · 28/01/2017 08:51

Wow, a lot of nasty unnecessary comments on here. If you don't like the blogs, don't read them, no need to trample all over someone else's work in such an oh-so-superior way.

"I suspect some of them think they're being journalists"

Hmm Nice.

These women are just parents, doing their best and doing something that makes them happy. No-one is forced to read blogs.

N.B. I'm not a blogger, I don't even have DC yet.

Alfieisnoisy · 28/01/2017 08:51

Another vote for Part time working Mummy on Facebook. If you have a pre-teen girl I urge you to read her post at the beginning of January. I was crying with laughter.

Alfieisnoisy · 28/01/2017 08:54

I used to keep a blog when DS was going through the diagnostic pathway for ASD etc.

I wrote at the beginning that I was not a great writer (I am not) and the blog was for my own thoughts. People were welcome to read though and some nice comments came in.

I no longer blog... no time but I do occasionally read it and remember how hard those few years were. Writing the blog helped. I am not a diary writer and a blog was set out and easy to use.

FearTheLiving · 28/01/2017 08:58

I read one when I was pregnant called a Cup of Jo. I really likes that one because she had guest bloggers to articles who had raised children in America and another country and compared what it was like. As someone who travels a lot and is from a mixed race family I found that really cool to see the cultural differences in raising children.

LiveLifeWithPassion · 28/01/2017 09:11

I know someone who does this and I think it is some kind of therapy/support for her. She lives far from family and friends and is trying to do the best she can.
I think it helps her to put a focus on her kids and give everything a positive tint.
It also gives her a creative output and she loves the supportive and praising messages she gets.

MrsSchadenfreude · 28/01/2017 09:13

Dull as fuck, smug and self absorbed

bananaleaves · 28/01/2017 10:09

God, like I said, the venom! Who cares! Don't read them if they wind you up so much. I don't see how it's any different to someone blogging about their favourite board games, or cooking or whatever they're interested in!
My friend has one and I think only her family and friends read it and probably like to get a little overview of what's going on in her life at the mo, she doesn't expect to hit the big time or anything it's just a hobby.

bananaleaves · 28/01/2017 10:10

I mean how many cooking blogs are out there? Millions! Do people get pissed off about those?

HopefullyAnonymous · 28/01/2017 10:13

My ex has a blog. It's a smug boast about what a wonderful, devoted father and husband he is. The thing is, we have a DS (8) together who he has never even met as he didn't fancy being a father at that time. We have no contact and he's avoided paying maintenance in every was possible. It really made me feel so mad inside reading it.

The thing to remember is that what these perfect mums are blogging about could all be fantasy bullshit, and most likely is. I do wonder what shortcomings people feel the need to cover for by presenting such a distorted version of their reality to the world.

TheStoic · 28/01/2017 10:14

Dull as fuck, smug and self absorbed

Described most of the posts on this thread.

I've read some excellent blogs, some not so great. Just like books, films, tv programs...

NerrSnerr · 28/01/2017 10:24

I used to really enjoy reading blogs about 10 years ago when they were just diaries and pictures of things people do. It's more of a business now. I understand things evolve and just read what I want to. I don't see the point of slagging people off for doing it as there clearly is a market in it and people make money from it so why not?

KathArtic · 28/01/2017 10:38

Yet we all come on here daily and read about other peoples lives

Sparklingbrook · 28/01/2017 11:17

glitterazi I don't share much of my RL on here and certainly don't post daily about stuff so not seeing any irony. Confused

MN Talk is for having conversations.

glitterazi · 28/01/2017 11:45

MN Talk is for having conversations

Yes, but it's also presumably a chunk out of your day reading "pointless day to day crap about people's every day lives*
which is what some are saying bloggers do...

Prettybaffled · 28/01/2017 11:48

I like them! Find them interesting in the same way I would happily chat to a random stranger on the train who started a conversation with me about their day. Human interest in even the reasonably mundane minutiae for me!

Often get good play ideas/things to do for birthdays/days out.

peepshowislife · 28/01/2017 11:52

I follow Unmumsy mum, dress like a mum and mother of daughters /father of daughters on Instagram - Unmumsy has far too much swearing for my liking , dress like a mum is cool I think and mother of daughters has sold out a little bit too much to adverts and freebies. Ah well !

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