Showing posts with label online writer exploitation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online writer exploitation. Show all posts

Friday, September 2, 2011

Stop Exploiting Filipino Online Writers, Please!

They may come from a poor country, but there are Asians, particularly Filipinos, who can write well and produce original and quality work for an English reading public.
I'm baffled, disconcerted at the moment.

I haven't written as many articles as I have on this online platform. It's good to earn while staying at home, researching, reading, and writing. However, most of the sites I joined since starting to write online last year have been on shaky grounds due to Google's Panda attack. I understand the algorithmic tweaking happens regularly. However, a more serious shift took place early this year. Most, if not all "content farms", have been biting the dust in terms of Google juice and page views. The virtual world has become as unfair and as uncertain as the real world.

It's likewise sad to learn that many sites and many people who run and use these sites think that writing is easy. Well, it is if one's copying something; but, if it's something original and with specifications like what topic and how a certain piece should be written, well it isn't easy at all.
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