Is it right to ask your own child to be your ghost writer?
I’ve been having my suspicions about this kid ever since he started blogging about “making money”. I mean, he’s only 13 right? How can he talk about moneymaking like it’s a piece of cake? Where are all his insights coming from? When I was 13, I was just entering puberty, throwing away all my toys and thinking of only one thing (hmm..) And honestly, I wouldn’t have had enough smarts to talk about making money, let alone any remotely interesting topic that’s bloggable. Then again, there was no such thing as a blog that time, but I digress.
Noemi pointed out that we are all spectators to this modern-day emperor’s new clothes. And she’s right. We see something that’s so blatantly wrong but have no guts to acknowledge it. But I guess that can be attributed to the fact that this grand scheme of deception involves a minor, a teenager, a boy who’s basically just coming to grips with himself. When and if his cover is blown by the blogosphere and, God forbid, the media, only he will end up as the major casualty. How can he protect himself? How can he handle all the negative press? When all the damage is done, how can he move on? Those questions are among the reasons why I held back in exposing this story a long time ago. So I let the status quo continue. But Noemi’s right. If we do continue to keep our silence we become a part of the conspiracy.
I can only imagine how much pressure is put on him by his dad. Thankfully, my father pressured me into pursuing what I love doing, that is, web development (blogging is just a perk of web dev *wink*). But he let me enjoy my youth to the fullest, sans the stuff adults usually worry about. How this kid is being raised is really none of my business. But when he’s being pushed around like that, that’s a different story. This blog post was not written out of spite, but out of concern. I can only hope the kid can go back to being a kid unscathed.
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October 7th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Its not that great to exploit kids to make money, but I do think that its good to teach our kids how to make money online (if we know how to do it that is), because if they use some wasted time (doing stuff online that is a waste of time), then they could make some good pocket money.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:38 am
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August 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am
I’m jealous of Drew, I wish I had haters
August 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Panget mo andrew! Mukha kang pwet ng baboy na may buhok!
August 13th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
@ sir andrew: I’ve been going emo for college. I lost track of the blogosphere lately.
August 13th, 2007 at 6:50 am
@Mikey: Thanks for clarifying! Comment deleted.
@Eugene: Yeah, kahit sa comments may ghost writers
@Aaron: Where’ve you been all this time?
August 13th, 2007 at 6:33 am
haha, another expose. and just when I was being lax on the blogosphere, this comes up. I knew it, now let’s see how the drama unfolds.
August 13th, 2007 at 3:05 am
Even here in the comments we have misrepresentation? Tsk, tsk, tsk.
August 13th, 2007 at 1:55 am
Andrew, the guy who left the comment under my name wasn’t me. Just want that to go on record.
August 13th, 2007 at 12:16 am
@Mike: Meh. Richard and Ronaldo have the same IP address as your flamer.
August 13th, 2007 at 12:12 am
Hey, Ronaldo is my officemate. I’m not Ronaldo promise. You can check it for yourself if you want. Anyway I understand where you’re coming from. Peace.
August 13th, 2007 at 12:05 am
@Richard: We’re all entitled to our opinions right? If we didn’t then why do we have blogs? I am concerned about the kid. That’s it. You can take that as a positive or negative.
@Ronaldo: I’m fascinated that you’re using the same IP address as Richard. How smart. Look, if they got you or your evil twin Richard into this, it’d be better if the affected parties responded to me directly. And it’s funny to note that all you “make money online” people talk and think the same way. Sometimes I think it’s become a religion that mistook a checkbook for a bible.
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