Ethics aren’t something I go around boasting about often. I mean, I’m not a criminal but depending on who you ask, I may be considered unethical (look, just quit listening to my mother). Once she over-heard me explaining the nature of the blogging sponsorship as one person being willing to “sell their soul” (it was a joke Jessica, get it, haha)to get what they want, that dear woman just almost fell over as Biblical scripture blew out her mouth.
What? What did I say?
I decided that before I went much further with this, I’d go look up the actual definition of the word. Ethics, that is, that word.
And quick trip over to Dictionary Reference rendered this information:
eth·ics
-plural noun
1.(used with a singular or plural verb
) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
2.the rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.: medical ethics; Christian ethics.
3.moral principles, as of an individual: His ethics forbade betrayal of a confidence.
4.(usually used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
As of late, much has been said about sponsorships, paid posts, accepting payment from brands in return for products, cash, or trips to various places. And, it’s time for me to tell you where I stand. Because, this is where it gets kind of muddy.
Yea, again, don’t go asking my mom about my ethics, she is a great woman, often disagrees with me over various details, but she is a good woman at heart. The bottom line is this, companies and corporations have been paying radio stations, TV stations, magazines, newspapers and more in return for a mention of their name in the appropriate place at the appropriate time (not selling their souls mind you, or having someone sold to them, just all in good business).
Any idea how much a 30 second commercial spot during the Super Bowl will cost you? Me either, that’s because in the whole scheme of things, I’m wondering if I’m getting that $25 rebate even though my UPC label and receipt were difficult to read. The cost of advertising at the Super Bowl, bah, whatever!
And, for the most part, I just go around, handling my own business and rarely do I just go out searching for someone to hate on. (Don’t ask my mom about that either, I don’t, I really don’t). But, occasionally people just bring the hate to me.
And you can definitely ask my Mama about this one, if you bring the hate, you’ve set about sealing your fate. (Ha, I did find a word that rhymed, and I didn’t even have to look it up). As I said, I generally mind my own business and that’s exactly what I was doing was minding my own business when Jessica Gottlieb wrote this post entitled Hashtag Spam.
That was on March 5. And I don’t even read her blog and I would never have even known that she was out there trying to stir up trouble and “bring the hate” if you will, if she hadn’t just literally grabbed me by the hair on my head and drug me through the nasty spam and flopped me down right smack dab in the middle of her crap just a few hours prior to her post going live.
Her hate ya’ll.
Her crap.
I did not go looking for her. She came and snatched me up and said “you will get involved in this hate“. I know you are sitting back wondering just how one adult living on the west coast could do this to another adult on the east coast without a big ordeal.
I”m not re-tweeting and re-commenting through the whole thread but the point is, she had the hate in her to call me out and when she realized that she didn’t actually have an A-List Blogger by the balls, she decided that possibly I was nice enough and her problem with me was with my disclosure on my blog.
What?
She decided as most do that she wasn’t going to win a battle of the number of tweets and moved on and put her hate all over someone else. Amy, Resourceful Mommy, if you will, has a business. She didn’t invent Twitter but she is the Queen of all Twitter Parties and she knows how to do it and do it well. Heck yea, let’s all go hate on her since Jerri Ann doesn’t really have much for us to keep beating her up over. Geez, girl, get a life. Let a woman run her business and you run ….never mind, you don’t have a business, barely a life and dagnabit, it’s filled with hate.
Anyway! Jessica literally, stepped all over herself here. And then, I found this post, courtesy of “my evil twin”, Al Gore Has Gottlieb Envy and you know what, all I could find was Jessica jaunting out with more hate.
And, now she has sealed her fate. Yes, ladies and gentleman (yea I know, there’s at least one man out there that reads), she brought the hate and I’m going to show her how to seal her fate.
Back off dumbass.
You had the nerve to call me out and ask me about being a “brand ambassador” and then at the point of realization of yet another one of your ignorant mistakes, you decided to make the discussion between you and I about my disclosure.
Read: Jessica Gottlieb wants to talk ethics with me!
Take that Mom! Cause really ya’ll, my ethics versus JG’s ethics….no comparison. None! She is a duck wading in some really shallow water on this one. Of all the people out there that she wanted to debate ethics with, she chose me.
And now, I get to show you (generally you) that I too can bring the hate. Make up your mind Jessica, do you want to be my friend and tell me that “oh I’m sure you’re lovely” and “you don’t spam, twitter parties spam” and then turn around and decide you want to discuss my “disclosure policy” and ethics.
I call bullshit on this one in a big way!
You see, had you gone about this in the right way, you might have had me on your side. I personally liked Twitter Parties and I love the hashtags that go along with events. But, I think private chat rooms would make a great place for some of this, not all mind you, I said some. So, if you hadn’t just attacked me without even knowing who you were attacking, you might have had an ally and not an enemy.
But, alas, you worked it out in pure jackass Jessica fashion. You simply got all up in my kool-aid and you had no clue about my flavor.
I do believe that a couple of things have to happen here, well more than a couple, but this would at least get your tail out from between your legs.
1. Figure out who you want to attack and what you want to attack about before you actually do the attacking. (Read: I am not an A-Lister, my disclosure policy is as good as the next guys and you just grabbed the wrong blogger here, your bad, eh! Whatever)
2. Changing your game plan during half-time is usually not a real good idea. (So, I didn’t work out for you to bully, so you decided to stomp all over someone who has (like me) done nothing to you. Nothing! Not one thing!)
3. Bring the hate, I can take it. Take the hate, can you? But for the love all things, including a big ol’ can of spam, don’t spam me about my ethics before you write your own code of ethics. I didn’t appreciate you spamming me anymore than you appreciate someone spamming you.
4. Get yourself a remote control. That’s right, when commercials come on that I don’t wanna watch, I change the ol’ channel with one click of a button. Twitter has one of those buttons too, it’s called Unfollow or in the new age UFM! Use it! Abuse it! But don’t hate it, because when you bring hate…..you seal your fate.
5. Finally, since you felt it was ok to ask me a myriad of questions, on Twitter no less, as a spammer, and I was genuinely honest enough to answer them, in Twitter and not as spam but on your own post and on Debbi’s post, why don’t you answer a question or two. Or would answering question tarnish your robe and crown?
Thse questions go like this:
1. Do you have a disclosure regarding the fact that you don’t spam people? If so, I’d like to read it because I’m fairly certain you just spammed the hell out of me the other night.
2. If all these Twitter Parties and/or hashtags bother you, why don’t you just unfollow us? Honestly, do you need Twitter followers so bad that you are willing to follow people who are “spamming” you?
3. Or, do you want that number to look good under “followers” on Twitter in case one of those “brands” that I work with happens to want to include you in something good.
Oh wait, good does not equal Jessica, and most brands don’t particularly go out in search of people spreading hate. So, why don’t you just unfollow all of us who use hashtags and do twitter parties?
Still waiting? Man, I don’t like hate.
Hate equal hell to me and it’s lonely as crap down here, just you and me.
I”m outta here, keep it all to yourself!
On tomorrow’s episode of “As the Hate Turns”, I give you a lesson in spam (complete with definitions) and Link Bait or Link Juice (again, complete with definitions).
Enjoy!
UFM girl! LOL! (and well, at least someone is enjoying my monologues)
