Hi everyone! I hope you’re well and ready for a mini rant because I feel like venting! 😂 I’m just going to come out and say something that I have feared putting into words in case it becomes a reality: I often worry that someone will plagiarise posts on my blog 🙈 I know that it wouldn’t be the end of the world but it would be the end of a bloggers tether (before you come back stronger than ever of course!). It may have already happened and I will never know but still the idea of it sends my mind racing. I’m driving myself a bit mad in thinking this way and then it makes me think: how do bloggers this has actually happened to cope? People say it can be taken as a compliment but that doesn’t hide the fact that it’s wrong.
I have come to the conclusion that people who plagiarise aren’t writers. Not even a small bit. Not even when their words are their own because a real writer/blogger wouldn’t even think of doing something so thoughtless. They can become a real writer once they apologize for their wrongdoing but I doubt they will feel it like we do as they have showed their true colours in wanting a fast way to notability. They don’t respect the community and are only in it for want of something more. It’s sad because they aren’t getting what blogging is about and how it should make you feel when you write from your minds heart. The pretence is lonely even if it doesn’t feel like it, they probably don’t even understand that something’s missing.
To finish off this rant I have written a short letter to those who choose to copy other peoples hard work:
A blog is a personal thing being shared. It is beautiful and unique and you would know that if you shared your real voice too. You can’t just see the surface and take it because you are leaving behind the embedded distinctiveness that makes a post what it is, the author. It is obvious it’s not yours. A post is nothing without the person who wrote it/took the pictures and you’re not them. Yet you seem to believe you’re not good enough to do the talking? Maybe you should go away and come back when you’re ready to be a real blogger. Offence is not only in claiming others work as your own but in thinking you are at all like them or worthy of their words/style. You won’t feel what they felt when they wrote those words so your copying is heartless and empty. You only want results and don’t care about the journey it takes to get there, the journey is the most important part and it doesn’t involve being fake.
Thank you for reading! 😉💗 I hope in some way this rant can be of help to anyone who’s blog has ever been copied or worries about it happening like me! What is your opinion on plagiarism? Let me know and have a lovely day!
Elsie LMC 
Ong!! This is so true!! I never thought in this direction that somebody can claim my hardwork
hardwork as there’s……but I would
would say you did right by venting out how you feel
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Thank you so much for reading and sharing your opinion! Yes it’s such a horrible and thoughtless thing to do isn’t it? Thank you 💕
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Yes it is
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Yeah I agree with you too and am worried about the same thing but I do add my own copyright for my pics or poems. Like you and others said we blog for passion and ourselves and its a shame if other ppl plagarize and cant even get their own work published. Love your short letter! Great post 🙂
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Thank you so much for reading and sharing your opinion! I think it’s very good that you add copyright on pictures and poems! 💕
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I don’t like the idea of it either. But you know what? We don’t blog for other people, at the end of the day, we blog for ourselves! And also, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. But plagiarism? That’s stealing and def not ok.
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That is very true! Thank you for reading and sharing your opinion! 💕
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I often fear that someone will take my photos or my writings and claim them as their own. I don’t like it and I wonder what on earth they get out of it. I suppose as some say that it is a compliment. Like when a friend copies what your wearing too the point when you go out your in matching outfits…Yes that happened to me. The guy I was with said she wants what you have. eeek I say…..scary…
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Thank you so much for reading! Yes I often wonder what they think they are getting out of it too. That must have been horrible having someone (let alone a friend) copying you! It makes you wonder what lengths will some people go to become either someone they admire or obsess over 😬 would like to think they’re wasting their time completely trying to be someone their not! 💕
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I don’t get it why people do it.
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I think it’s laziness. Not being bothered to rack their minds for their own words to write. Or even seeing something that’s getting viewers and feeling jealous enough to take it
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Yes Laziness. Its sad isn’t that some people just can not think of their own words.
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