The new trend for “celebrities” seems to be writing open letters to blogs and people who love them. The latest one comes from Ciara, who apparently is fed up with how she is depicted in blogs. Although I’ve never really seen a lot of negative things said about her by bloggers, Ciara certainly thinks the creativity of blogs is gone. This may have stemmed from a particular blog posting a few of her recent instagram pictures and referring to her as Future’s 6th baby mama. Read the letter below titled “What Is Social Media Coming To”.
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“I used to sometimes like visiting some of the blog sites to see what new things are happening in the world! Things like cool photos, current events, etc. But nowadays it seems like there’s a competition with sites on “Who Can Tear Someone Down the Most.” The stories are going from cool and creative to pure drama. Even the comment sections are beginning to get out of control and people are using the platforms to exercise a false sense of power.
People sure do have a lot of courage when they are anonymous. It’s like a “Who Can Say the Nastiest Comment Game.” I click onto some of the comments from something as fun as an Instagram post that you’re sharing with your fans, and a person finds a way to turn a positive post into a negative. I think to myself, “I could pick this person apart so bad but what for? Why act ugly like them?” It honestly takes the fun out of it when people seem so miserable.
Or at least that’s how I view someone wasting their energy to tear someone down, just plain miserable. They could be using that to do something much more productive. If only they could channel their energy towards positivity, it could make a difference in their own life as well as influence others. It’s kind of scary for the kids coming up, because even if a parent doesn’t allow their kids to have blog site access at home, they may still have access at school or other places. It’s now almost impossible to protect your kids from the vile things people say on blog sites today, and it’s even worse when kids hear hurtful things about themselves, their parents or other family members. In some cases kids have even resorted to suicide due to “cyber-bullying.”
My questions to people creating slander about people are:
What stops you from thinking twice about trying to defame someone? What are you trying to gain?Words are powerful. You could say the wrong thing about someone, famous or not, on the wrong day and that could cost them their life because they’re at a weak point. Believe it it or not, you could also be encouraging them to give up on their life or whatever the situation is, when they shouldn’t. Or what about a story that causes unnecessary drama stemming from completely false information? It’s just flat out wrong and sad. I say to myself, I thank God for making me strong, because I’ve always been able to use the negativity as motivation, and it makes me stronger.
But I don’t just think about myself in this, I think about others that I see getting thrashed and think it’s just so wrong. It’s very sad that people just want to tear people down so bad just to see them unhappy. It’s unbelievable how far people are willing to go to get people to come to their site.
I say this to say….Dear Blogger, It’s never worth it in the end when you sell your soul for a quick dollar, by creating bad stories about people. At some point, it will all reverse on you and you’ll end up regretting all the trash you wrote or said about people.
The universal friend “Karma” has demonstrated this over and over again. I strongly encourage you to project more positivity into the universe. If Social Media is a world that’s growing more massive by the day, why not use it to shed light?? Otherwise, you are merely contaminating our universe.What about your family and kids?? Do you think about them?? You’re definitely creating a harmful and volatile environment where they must learn to live. It’s almost like you are cursing future generations with your bad energy.
Not to mention…Your “Personal Karma”??… Forget about it!
You better start doing some serious praying and rebuking, cause only The Lord knows!…:)I sure do miss the good ol days when the focus was about the pure creativity of being an artist. Back then there was still some mystery. Social Media Is Beginning To Take Away The Specialness of What That Was, and Is.
Now, Off Blogs. Peaceful Mind. Living In My Happiness. Creativity Only.
Love, C”
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Of course as a blogger I had to add my 2 cents. First and foremost, I get very irritated with these “celebrities” and their lack of accountability for their actions. The art of blogging has always been around in some form. Before it was digital there were newspapers, the news, television shows like Entertainment Tonight, etc. It is no secret that the price of celebrity is privacy. It’s been this way long before Ciara let her “Goodies” out of the jar. However, let’s not make the press the bad guy. Is she Future’s 6th baby mama? Maybe not — but she’s certainly not his first, second, or third and I’m sure that was the point they were getting at. It’s not like bloggers are out here making up stories and photoshopping photos. 95% are not! You make the news and we are just reporting it. It’s the cycle you signed up for.Â
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I love how “celebrities” like to bash blogs yet when it works in their favor become best friends with bloggers. When you have no album to promote then we are evil bad people but when it’s time to drop that single they are inviting those same evil bad people to press dinners, meet & greets, listening parties etc. Those same evil people receive your song in our email at 8am before we can even wipe the sleep from our eyes. What kind of crazy abusive relationship do they have us in? If you are looking for us to be bias towards you and only sing your praises, you probably should direct your attention to a fansite, not a blog site. Blogs are sure to be more opinion based. That’s how we stay different in a world full of revolving microwavable news.
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Lastly, let’s talk about creativity. I’m not sure what blogs Ciara was visiting many moons ago but they aren’t any different now than they were then. In fact, for legal reasons blogs are probably a lot nicer than they were back then. Too many lawsuits and cease & desists now. Too many combative celebrities now. The creativity in blogging hasn’t changed , it’s just that everyone and anyone can buy a domain name and call themselves a blogger now. You choose what you read. If you read a site that is known for trash, you can’t be upset that you are constantly fed trash. Also, don’t expect blogs to censor our commentors just because you don’t like what they’re saying. That’s immature. You have the option of not reading the comments.
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I want to finish my point by saying this, a lot of celebrities should refrain from bashing bloggers. Paparazzi is surely not following you around so without us writing about you, your relevance would be null & void. If no blogs posted about these reality show stars and C list singers, would we know they existed? Probably not. Also, if you don’t want us to blog about negative things you do, stop doing negative things. Pretty simple theory.