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Are Bloggers really that influential in Nigeria? I know some bloggers also write for tabloids, but the drama seems focused on blogs and on social media. For those in Nigeria, do you find that most people you know also visit the same blogs you do? What of those not in your social circle, on the BRT, the departmental stores and the market? Are bloggers quoted on the radio, newspapers and TV?
Is it that we readers and bloggers inside and outside Nigeria are just seeing a small perspective of few Nigerians with access to the internet and social media and it is magnified in our eyes? Is it that the Nigerians who may be up to 60% without internet are not part of the celebrity culture, and so do not really factor? I want to know if that's some people like to make mountains out of molehills?
Do you believe it is very important for celebrities to respond to each and every tabloid news about them by releasing PR to blogs and Youtube? Some say they are doing it for their family, but can you not call them on the phone, or call a family meeting? And what do you think of the saying, "a clean conscience fears no accusation?"
It would be even more interesting to hear from those living outside Lagos, Benin, PH and Abuja, these are the places my statcounter say most of my Nigerian visitors come from. I know my family in Asaba and Onitsha didn't know much about blogs.
You may not understand the genesis of this post, if so just take it as a random post, but please oblige me if you will. For those that do, even better...
You know, I was thinking about that the other day too when I was wondering why most of my traffic comes from the US and Uk as opposed to Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's like all those Naija reality shows, Lekki Wives and the likes. Some people in Nigeria live in different worlds.
But then again, there's the issue of magazines like city people. Before blogs became the talk of the town Nigerians still wanted to know what celebrities were doing and they bought Ovation magazine and city people to get that news.
Now, we've moved more towards blogs for that information.
It's the same people who would have read city people in Naija that check Bella Naija daily
Vibrant points you have made, Myle! It galls me, or should l say, confounds me, that what we bloggers oftentimes take to the market to attract teeming readers is gossip! Why is it that gossips now find frequent usage in journalistic parlance to such unexpected extent that we scarcely find time to concentrate on the denigration of our own lives? Blogging....or journalism generally, has to be scoured, purged and canalised to be a clean page for the writing of a new age! We should gossip, but not to the extent of revealing the parlous wretchedness of our celebrities' marital frailties....
ReplyDeleteYeah bloggers are becoming influential, if not why would Tonto dike say these ''Appreciation to all them blogger 'shitheads' though but God has used them to our advantage....and Nonso diobi said;
ReplyDelete"Celebs are also humans just like you and should be allowed to live their lives as one. We also have our personal life behind the screen you know... Because most of these so-called BLOGGERS are from the pit of Hell sent by the Devil to destroy the careers of successful people."
The news breaks on blogs these days...I know seeing some newspapers and i see my words, word for word no edit.
And YES, i know why you wrote this....They are responding to prove they are innocent, not necessarily for family but for their image.
DeleteBlogs, twitter and facebook updates are now easier to follow and access thru mobile phones...an average nigerian youth has a wap enabled fone so information is much easier to get hold of...the social media holds considerably much more influence than the print media...the world has gone digital
ReplyDeleteThe guilty are afraid. The so called clarification youtube was so unreal. D hubby kept nodding like a tutored guy. Inas much that some bloggers overdo theirs like the blogger being referred to in this post,the celebrity should have kept mum
ReplyDeletePer influential: well yes but I see it this way; bloggers are influential as they post a story (whether validated or not) and then other bloggers pick up on that story and it goes viral..very young, or/and gullible people stopping to read so many blogs saying the same thing (true or not) will accept it as the truth and a (mostly negative) change starts from there.
ReplyDeleteSecondly then the comments are also influentail, (at least for those blogs that allow for really bile inducing comments) it is not easy reading comments about oneself, especially in a case when truths and untruths are mixed up into one nasty article.
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ok i find a truth to this "Secondly then the comments are also influentail, (at least for those blogs that allow for really bile inducing comments) it is not easy reading comments about oneself, especially in a case when truths and untruths are mixed up into one nasty article."
Deletelike you said why not call a meeting or something of sort rather than go to the media to make a short clip to prove your innocence,a clear mind fears no accusation they say, but in this case we are left but to wonder.
ReplyDeleteA couple of wks ago, a footballer from spain I think... Got into serious trouble because of a supposedly false story written in a blog. A lot of pple do not have access to the life of the so-called celebs in nigeria and they only have whatever blogs tell them. Unfortunately, a lot of these stories are not verified before its posted, we tend to go for sensetionalism over facts( I am a lso guilty of that) without considering the fact that so many pple only hv our words as the truth. As nollywood said, a lot of my traffic also comes from outside naija, they want to knw what's happening in nigeria and will believe almost anything they read on blogs. So yes, I do think bloggers are becoming really influential.
ReplyDeleteI second your comment about stories not been verified
Deleteyes bloggers are becoming influential. For example there are a lot of friends i have made as a blogger.www.secretlilies.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteMy mentor a renown writer confirms the fact that 'when you publish any book in your industry it sets you out of the pack'. similarly owning a blog makes you an authority in your niche and vests on you a certain level of authority.
ReplyDeleteBloggers are rising in influence not only in Nigeria or Africa alone but in the western world. The blog coupled with social media has brought about great revolution in recent times,however,Nigerian blogosphere needs to be purged (not totally though) of frivolous gossip, but there should be communication of value and well based information to the mixed milieu of unsuspecting and the both critical audience... I rest my case... :)
yes they are. we influence more than celebrities . when it comes to knowledge. we are already in a computerized system
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