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Duped

Are you a blogger? Do you have a Twitter account? Flickr account? Tumblr? WordPress? Hell, even a Facebook account? Doesn’t matter, really, which one, or combnination of some, that you have. One day you might make it big, get advertising dollars for the characters you lay down in electronic ink all over the pages of what ever vehicle you choose to power your thoughts in written form on the web, collect a ton of followers that may hang, with baited breath, on every word that you write.

Or not.

But even if you don’t, even if the only person that reads your words is your kind-hearted grandmother, even if one day, the vicissitudes of your life are such that you no longer are able to budget enough time to attend to your little gem and all of that work ends up collecting dust on Google’s internet archives, even then, at the very least, there should never have ever, ever, ever been a time that you knelt down so deep into the mire that you felt the need to dupe the people that you hope are handing over even one measly little second of their precious time to place their eyes on you work. Never dupe your readers. Even if those readers are just in your mind. Entertain, sure, if that’s your thing. No harm there.

You can never really get rid of the words you write on the internet. That should really give most people pause, even if mostly it doesn’t. It’s you’re legacy. Big ideas and small. It’s forever. There isn’t much more on this earth that is much more your own than your own words – spoken or written. Never. Dupe. You’re readers. It’s just foolish. (via Daring Fireball)

31 January 2010 | Comments |