Granada, Nicaragua
Adding humanity to your blog is as important as ever.
AI blogging appeared to change the game in this regard.
For the illusion of progress, artificial intelligence created the inevitable effect of a world made in duality. Regression comes built-in to progression here.
AI – and AI blogging – increases output but decreases human connection. Never mind how easily one can AI-automate full processes; although the crack down is imminent.
For example, after Instagram banned me for 3 months and Facebook for a few hours I appealed both on the same day. Facebook required me to record a selfie video of my *human* head (as opposed to the other one) looking left, right, up and down. Instagram demanded that I share a smiling selfie of my human noggin.
Proof of reality hinged on me proving that I was a real, living, breathing human being, trustworthy and credible enough to the point where the social sites restored my accounts.
The policy of Instagram and Facebook is this: if you can prove that you are a real human being by showing your head moving, or in a still shot, we will restore your account. If not, we assume that your account is AI and/or bots, meaning that it is fake, aka not real, not credible, not trustworthy, and we will shut down these profiles for good.
Do you see why adding the human touch to your blog is beyond critical these days?
Increasing numbers of human beings – ya know, the ones who become your organic traffic and co-create blogging income for you – are only trusting smiling faces, talking heads, blogs boasting personal stories, first person experiences and any aspect 100% aligned with the human touch.
Read the prior paragraphs. Does it sound like AI spun ’em? Or did a human write this content?
THAT is adding the human touch to your blog.
THIS is a non-negotiable, especially during these AI-dominant days of AI-distrust and human-trust.
Friend and Network Frenzy
I enjoy mass approving friends and the like on Facebook and LinkedIn from time to time to make buddies and to observe how bloggers operate.
One group of odd folks I approve send me Messages or comments a few seconds after approval:
“HIRE ME!”
Or…
….”as a free gift for our bond, here is this so and so business opportunity lead in masked as a free gift but I just want to mainly use you for your money because I see people as dollar signs, not as human beings.”
Unless I point this stuff out guys there is no reason for you to cease doing it. Most Blogging From Paradise Dot Com readers understand the error of the above tactics. But a few certainly do not. Plus the general blogging public definitely misses the boat on this one. My inbox would not burst at the seams with these types of messages if this were not the case.
Most people really do mean well. But allowing fear and its cousin ego to call the shots de-humanizes people into tools for use to mine traffic, money, business and influence. The moment you no longer see a human being online you do strange things like engaging in business-speak and other weird activities. In a way, you become less human too because anytime you intend to use people as things you see yourself as some mindless thing, too. We are all connected. How you treat the world is how you treat yourself.
Get comfy-cozy with perceiving the world as a mirror. What you see reflects your mind back to you. Attempting to use people via the prior tactics invites the world to use you. As a rule, each of the seeming offenders mass-spamming such emails appear to get used by others just as the crowd tries to use others. We get what we do. Or we see as we think. Or people treat us how we treat other people.
Dehumanizing Humans Is NOT Adding the Human Touch
One of the oddest, strangest and most bizarre errors I see bloggers make: dehumanizing humans. Add a human touch to your blogging campaign. See people as being on the other side of the internet. See humans reading their phones. Picture living, breathing people reading your blog, commenting, sharing, buying and hiring. Humanizing your blogging campaign makes blogging easier and easier. Not going down this road makes blogging tougher and tougher.
Everything occurs as the level of mind. What you choose to do depends on what you decide to think, first. No one here is mindless even if we appear to behave in such fashion from time to time or most of the time. You have a mind. Use it or lose it to mindlessness.
A collection of people I bonded with on LinkedIn recently sent me messages. Each one was BS manipulation. Even though the individuals likely meant well I had a tough time trying to read a messages clearly designed to get me to do something for them when the individuals pitched me by first trying to be my friend and then by trying to get me to join their event.
One aspect of their mind believes that the blind pitch helps a blogger. But the aspects all seem blind to are the arrogance of assuming that person needs your help (hence the blind pitch) and then the unfortunate manipulation of others primarily to get money for yourself. The ego loves to use people and throw ’em out like soiled toilet paper. Everyone does it at one time or another. The world uses people for selfish ends and whether successful or not, kills the people off in their minds.
Conclusion
Stop trying to get people to do stuff for you. Do stuff for people and cut the strings of attachment to get connected, to enjoy the blogging journey and to succeed.
Develop psychological detachment from traffic and income outcomes.
Blog mainly to be truly helpful.
Trust in the process.
Allow your content and relationships to drive organic traffic and blogging income to and through your blog.
