I have seen many bloggers fail In Nigeria. And if some writers were to
write about what causes the failure, they quickly jump into conclusion
discussing the same thing previous writer had written on, such as
laziness, thinking of being successful within a short period of time,
not determined, blogging because others are doing it. Are this points
true? My answer is yes and no, yes because it’s possible and No because
it’s not true for everyone that crashed out that crashed out from the
blogosphere. So I call this points “fallacy of hasty generalization”. I
believe there would have being more successful bloggers in Nigeria if
the conditions around them are favourable.
The two challenges I’m
going to discuss are based on what I see bloggers facing and what I
experience on a daily basis. If you are a blogger in Nigeria, The only
reason that can make you nullify this point of mine is if you have
alternatives, which I believe is not available to vast majority of
bloggers in Nigeria.
What are these two major challenges?
1. Epileptic Power Supply
I
can imagine you nodding your head, as a sign that you agree with this
point. When we talk about the ICT world, then we should discuss more
about electric power supply. I have always imagined how mark zuckeberg
of facebook, Jack dorsey of twitter, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of
google would have struggled had it being they are born in Nigeria or
lived in Nigeria right from their childhood. Perhaps they won’t their
won’t be facebook, twitter, google, Perhaps their won’t even be anything
like blogging.
After I finished from school on lastyear, I thought
of resuming fully to my blog, but it has rather being hard than I
prepared for, and the power supply has being one of my major problem.
Apart from the power supply from generator. I only enjoy electricity for
an average period of 3hours in every 24hours. There are even times that
it will be off for almost 2weeks, and the scarcity of fuel with the
rising and falling of it’s price is not helping in anyway to use my
small generator. I believe some bloggers situation are a lot more worse
than this.
2. High Data Price
I do not mean data for records,
but what you use in accessing the internet. A situation where you have
one of the network provider advertising 2015mb data for N2015 and in
their mind, they are trying to beat off competitions by giving their
users data at cheaper price, you can imagine how hard it will be for a
blogger who’s not earning a penny from his blog yet.
Yes, you can
still squeeze some amount to get a domain (it’s renewal is just once in a
year), you can still squeeze out some amount to get the device you
need, but how do you expect an average income blogger to be squeezing
out large amount of money every month to get data so as to maintain the
blog he’s not yet earning from, there will a time that there will be
nothing else to squeeze. Little wonder why some people looks for tricks
to help them surf the net for a little or no amount in Nigeria. So don’t
quickly condemn any blogger looking for quick success in the blogging
world if you don’t know the conditions they are.
DO YOU KNOW?
A.
That this points in one way or the other affects the quality of posts
from a blogger, due to the fact that some cannot do deep research on the
content they post because they only have little resources (electricity,
data etc.) to get it done. Perhaps many bloggers in Nigeria would have
gotten an adsense approval by now.
B. That drastic improvement on
this points could help tackle unemployment. Just imagine hundreds of
thousands of successful bloggers in Nigeria. I read an article about
some bloggers that resigned from their former place of work just to face
blogging squarely, how many of that happens in this part of the world. I
hope to see more of lindaikeji and Jide ogunsanya of ogbonge blog in
this country.
My name is Temitope, and I just want to make common sense.
Source: http://www.topnetblog.com/2016/01/two-major-challenges-bloggers-face-in.html?m=1
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