Over the past few days I have stumbled around from one side of the internet to the other in search of a way to make money on the internet.
‘N00b!’.
Yes, okay, I understand that that first sentence alone shows my lack of understanding of all things computerised. The internet doesn’t have sides. It’s infinite. Or is it round? I… I just don’t know…
It turns out that in order to fully monetise my blog I have to put extra ads onto the site, and, I really don’t want to do that.
But as I scroll though pages and pages of ‘How to make money blogging’ posts, I start to despair slightly. I would love to be able to make a living blogging. I just want to be able to write all day – surely there is a way to do that!
Well yes, there is… or no… depending on… Well, put it this way – the blogs making the money are, ironically, the ones teaching you how to make money.
Damn. Got my hopes up there for a second.
But it did also get me thinking. There is money to be made from the internet. Most things are run through the internet. All my recent job applications have been through the internet. Most of the books I read come from the kindle store and and 90% of the news I read is online (since the times raised their paper price from £1 to £1.20, I refuse to buy it on moral grounds).
Even this blog is absolutely reliant on the internet!
I am currently writing this from my local library. The internet at my parents house (who I am currently staying with as part of the ‘family holiday’ that is the British Summer).
My parents have described it as one of the worse things in their life. Let’s just think about that for a second. Just fifteen years ago, my family owned one desktop – they barely used the internet. Now every member of my family has laptops and phones and God knows what else. The extent to which they are reliant on the internet it almost scary…
Almost.
But don’t think that it is necessarily a bad thing. I do however, think that people, particularly the older generation who have grown up with the internet and social media dominating their lives, need to embrace it. The world has changed forever. Now it is time to change how we educate people in the world.
I think that there need to be classes in Social Media and computer navigation need to be taught in schools.
YES. Computer skills are often taught, but in relation to the tools typically considered useful in an office.
In 80 years, there will be nearly nobody who has not grown up in part of a social media world. Things have changed forever.
Let’s embrace it!
