so here's the story

If you blog I'm sure you're familiar with those spammy emails from people wanting you to contribute such and such to their blogs. One of the things I've learned in this blog experience is that to some blogging is nothing more than a marketing tool. Getting your name out is first and content is second. Feelings, emotions, and keeping up with family and friends come in somewhere near the bottom. That's good for some I guess, but I'm not interested.

Last night however I had a moment of weakness. I've been getting emails from a site that has repeatedly asked me to contribute. I've been getting weekly emails from them telling me how wonderful it would be to share my breast cancer experience with others and help newbies. Thanks to what has become my new normal (insomnia) I was up late and not thinking clearly. So, I signed up with that site. There were policies and agreements and such that I had to digitally sign off on and it wasn't until after the fact that I decided to Google the site. (Note: Google is always your first step in anything!)

The site has been called fraudulent scammers by many reputable sources. Oops! What they do is tell you that your content remains your own and you do nothing other than continue blogging as usual. However, they now have rights to that content. They can do pretty much whatever they want with it and honestly, that makes me very uncomfortable. Yes I understand that my words are out there. My blog is public and pretty much anyone can do what they want with it anyway, but it's different when I sign something agreeing to allow others to do as they wish.

I immediately emailed them and asked to cancel. It was within minutes of when I digitally agreed. I haven't heard back from them and who knows what they'll say when I do. So, I wanted to take back my blog before they had a chance to do anything with it.

It's time for a new blog chapter anyway. Soon enough I'll delete the other blog and be more anon. In the mean time I will be posting away about being a tired, happy working mom who just happened to have/has cancer, a brother who killed himself, a husband with um 'baggage' and lots of funny friends and family who make life interesting.

Thanks for listening.