Real bloggers don’t do this…

Elsie LMC

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!

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  2. Since I’m new to blogging, I hadn’t even thought about this, but you are right. I truly hope no one tries to steal my pictures or writings and claim that they are their own work. That would make all the research, hard work and time that I put into it gone in an instant and become somebody else’s. The only reason I started my blog was to bring awareness to a rare condition, so I would hate for someone to not cite me if they used a blog or quote of mine.

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    1. Thank you so much! I’m so sorry to hear that someone plagiarized your work! I think it’s very admirable that you didn’t let it stop you! Was anything done to the person who copied you? 💕

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      1. No nothing but it taught me a great lesson. To do what i do blog not to carry any anger for the person who plagiarise and move on and let life take its course. Every actions has its own consequences.

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  5. I recently saw something on Twitter about another “blogger” stealing blog posts and claiming them as their own. The person admitted to it and apologized, but I ended up blocking them. I can’t see how anyone would think that was okay. Plus, like you said, truly writing your own thoughts is such a great feeling.

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