I went to Bubblews...
What I don't understand in this thread is that nobody seems to bother how you actually make your money on Bubblews. I never saw anyone explain clearly how the money source works, besides the empty statement "I made $300 on Bubblews, you must have violated the rules". You got this money because the other half didn't got it. Am I clear? It almost seems like in the US everyone seems to be blind to cheaters as long as you took your own money...and you call this social blogging?
99% is blogging for the money, not for the "social" part, please don't tell yourself and others lies.
Bubblews is Selfish Blogging, not social blogging...just saying
Oh, yes and Amy asked a question that nobody seems to answer: "How is it that Bubblews can offer more payment, for bad content?" We all know somewhere deep inside why this is, but lack the courage (or lack intelligence?) just to answer this question plain and simple: because it partly takes money from the Ads and partly sells your private information drained from your computer.
- Hiba Howardposted 10 years ago
0 - Brooke18posted 10 years ago0
When the first week of July came and went, and all that seemed changed was a little more speed with the site (oh, and whatever they did to some home page, or whatever...); I was hoping that wasn't "It". Because if it was, there was the "heralding" had been way, way, out of proportion to the changes. I'd envisioned so much more. (I hope they don't get rid of the big, long blocks of teeny-tiny text.
) I seriously love those.
This is a super-long post, but sometimes I just get perverse pleasure from writing tons and tons of words and knowing I won't earn a penny from them.
Long story short: I like Bubblews and have been paid several times within 80 hours at first; most recently, within six/seven days (with a weekend in the mix). Although it's faster now than it was, it would be good to be able to go through stuff more quickly (particularly for the person who doesn't want to spend all day on the site).
Long story long:
I went to B's, thinking it could replace my take-a-break time that I used to have the HP forums for (before a lot of people and/or sockpuppets left the forums for one reason or another. When I heard that B's is a social site I thought it might be a good replacement. I generally don't socialize anywhere online, mainly because I don't have the time to do much of anything but write (for one reason or another) and - maybe - take a break from the writing "whenever".
Anyway, I discovered that the whole way things are at B's doesn't really make for that kind of quick social chat. You know... a thread (or in their case, a post) where people then have back-and-forth chat/conversations. They have some of that on there, but with the site's slowness it can be hard to find it. I didn't want to go and find "every Hubber name" I know because I was worried that "recreating HP" on their site might look "funny" to them for one reason or another.
The slowness of the site has improved, but I just went there and got "Under Maintenance". The slowness has made it kind of tricky to seek out connections who might really want to either write or do "genuine" socializing; and what goes on there tends to be, "good post" or "good post, now read mine".
So, when it turned out B's wasn't going to be what I thought it was (and when I saw that other people were posting long posts/articles) I just figured I'd take the connections as they come (or at least most of them), make a few that I happened to find, and build up an inventory of writing for anyone who is like me, and who likes to find reading. I figured I'd throw in some shorter, sillier, things; and look for people who weren't so much interested in writing, but in just doing that little bit of "just socializing". My plan was to have that be a "Phase I" type of thing, so if I wanted to spend a few minutes reading and commenting on others there'd be something there for anyone who wanted to read (or not-read but - although not my preferred way of operating - like in return for my liking their post). Worst case (and with limited time), I'd have a bunch of posts for anyone who came looking. Best case (and original plan) was that once I had enough Phase I in place I'd then start doing shorter posts. "Win/win" (sort of) because I write anyway, so it wasn't a big deal to do those "Phase I" posts.
Best case (particularly with some improvements having gone on/going on now), I'd put in some more effort to finding connections (rather than just mostly connecting back to whoever connects to my profile.
It's not fast "bucks", but it's not my job either. I don't do anything "funny" on there. The biggest challenge has been moving through the material to find new connections. Because of the slowness (and - sorry - sometimes, unbearableness of some aspects of the site) , I do tend to find people whose stuff I most often enjoy (may skip a thing here or there), and then when I see those people I go see what else new they've posted since I was there last. (And I don't just mean people who are writers. I mean people who write about their grandchild, etc.)
My thinking has been that with enough (evergreen) material of one sort or another; and with some more day-to-day, shorter, posts as part of "Phase II"; all a person (me) really needs to do is go read other people's stuff (probably enjoy it), comment/like etc. (Worst case, B's tells people to stop writing long stuff on there, but things don't look like they're going in that direction on that site.)
I only have (I think) 400-plus connections on there (and x percent of them have been booted for the usual reasons. I have 200-plus pieces of mostly evergreen stuff. Even if I don't post more in my "Phase II" if I stir up some more connections and read their stuff/like, etc., I'll at least get x amount of meaningless,reciprocal clicks it won't take a lot of posting or time (even if I don't make more connections).
They tell people to "build a following". I've done that time and again on one site or another over the years (nothing phenomenal, but decent). My day-to-day doings aren't all that fascinating; so (kind of) my only hope of "a following" is the writing I do. If I do much in "Phase II" I'll take that shorter-post approach (because they do get read and liked far more often than longies). I'll still aim for reasonably evergreen, though.
I know everyone has his own aims (etc.) for online activities; and I know there are quicker ways to make the proverbial "buck"; but I think people who want to make money by writing (and only writing - one thing or another) need to have a longer-term approach, a plan and a willingness to make smaller amounts of money on each site; and let the many "baskets" add up.
I don't happen to care about the stuff in my "Phase I inventory" on B's; but because there's always the chance of "having an issue" if one wants to delete something, I'll be pretty careful about what longer stuff I post on there now that I'm in "Phase II". (I figure, if you compare it to Facebook, or "whatever", nobody expects all kinds of high-quality material on those sites either. B's has improved and been refined quite a bit since May 2013, when I first found them.)
I've seen that, even with the relative few posts/connections I have now, if I spend only a little time just reading/commenting, etc., the dollars actually add up a lot faster than they did for me 100 posts ago.
I don't know... I think people who want to make money "just writing" (rather than "any way they can on the Internet") need to set how much time they want to spend on any site, and figure out how to make things work for them on that site.Jean, I kind of think of Bubblews as the word-version of Pinterest - at least for me. I'm just more of a words-person than picture person; so my mindless activity is kind of what I'm doing right now - posting on here without concern for money, readers, or anything else.
(There's only so much looking for pretty pictures that I can do without getting exhausted. )
- Hiba Howardposted 10 years ago0
The thing about bubblews is that the quality is atrocious. Every other person is from Southeast Asia, in general, writing very grammaticality incorrect posts. It's important not to take the site or yourself so seriously. I don't think anybody is there to hone their craft and write excellent articles. You can basically make a post and say 'I am the cheesman' 35 times and if people like it, you will get paid for it.
I agree with what @csmiravite-blogs said. It's more like a social network that you just so happened to get paid for your posts because of advertisements. And in other countries, 50 dollars is a bigger deal than it is in US. I'm living in Morocco now, where 150 dollars a week, which is not a living wage in the US, is considered an enormous salary. So bubblews gives people, especially in those locations, a good opportunity to make some extra money. Its pretty good employment in comparison to what readily available in their towns.
Personally, I don't mind getting paid to vomit 400 characters of nonsense seems like everyone has eventually moved to Bubblew-- hope you comeback soonest
Marcy, all is well.
Hubbers don't leave for Bubblews. Hubbers merely expand to Bubblews.
Me, for example. Short posts and CW on Bubblews. Long, contributing-to-society stuff on HubPages.
In fact, there is not one single post of mine on Bubblews that HP would want anything to do with.
I have a Bubblews account. I've never had trouble with payments, although they do take ages to process. Interaction with other users does increase earnings, but you have to wade through a lot of crap for it. There are some interesting writers on there, and even the 'what I had for breakfast' type of post can be enlightening, as the user base is so diverse.
The frustrating aspect for me is seeing people with 200 connections and 4 posts getting over 100 likes for a piece of garbled nonsense, while I'm getting around 20 likes from my 1200 connections for an article on, for example, how drivers seem more frantic on a Friday.
The site is awash with like-swappers and cliques, and interesting comments have almost fizzled out into pasted boilerplate with variations on the same 'nice post' theme.
Yesterday, I posted about the death of the last surviving original member of the Ramones, Tommy Ramone, and I received these three comments:
1) Great and informative post <Thank you for sharing dear friend
2) i like your post "give and you shall be rewarded"
3) you have an very informative post nice blog keep sharing thanks for this article
Hardly the sort of thing to start a discussion on the subject of the post.
To me, writing for HubPages is like making a cannelloni from scratch; it takes time, preparation and care. Writing for Bubblews is like knocking up a Pot Noodle. The sad part is, the Pot Noodle pays better.- KenDeanAgudoposted 10 years ago0
Yup, Bubblews looks quite professional now. I used to always consider bubblews as just another site to write, to earn fast. But now it looks totally professional. I miss the bubbles though..
You are right. The message disappeared. All appears much better. Updated my earlier post so as to not cause heart attacks.
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