15 things you should know before dating a girl who blogs: A response

Heyyyy…

I was doing rounds on the internet and I came across an article in the Cosmopolitan UK magazine titled ’15 things you should know before dating a girl who blogs.’ Read it here.

So I am assuming the author wrote from her, or his opinion and in as much as I couldn’t relate to most of the things said in the post, its okay, that’s their opinion. But here’s mine;

*Please note, I am not going to respond to all the points that were raised in the Cosmopolitan article, I will just highlight ;on the ones that were outstanding to me. (And truthfully, I am just lazy and tired.)*

They said “We won’t let you read our work. But we want to know that you want to read our work. We’re craving that more than all the likes.”  – Hell naw! No ma’am! I want you to read my work. Talking about my posts makes me shy and nervous, more so you reading them but I still want you to read. You may not have an opinion on the topic but read and I would very much like to know that you read the damn post. Who doesn’t want support from their loved one?

They said “We love to text long. Come on, words are our thing. Everyone enjoys an essay reply at 8am, right?” – Uhmmm not really. I can’t say I love to text long ass messages. I only do it when it’s necessary and that is usually in arguments. An essay of a message? That sounds a bit too much but okaaaaay.

They said: “We’ll say we have deadlines to get out of stuff. But the truth is we’ve run out of clean floor space for framing our Instagrams, haven’t had time to tackle the dishes for the past week, and a night in washing out our dry shampoo just sounds like heaven.” – No! Sure, a lazy day in pyjamas sounds cool and exciting but I definitely wouldn’t use my blog as an excuse. I will give you an excuse of course. I will probably use work related excuses. But quite frankly I will jump at the opportunity to spend time with a lover.

They said: “If we get free tickets to something cool, we’ll probably try turning it into a date. Yes we’re trying desperately hard to impress you, but hey, we’re still chill… This ain’t no t’ing.” – A date? Yes, but definitely not because I want to impress you. It will probably be because I want you to come see me in my element you know, talking and doing blogger nonsense, see what bloggers what bloggers get up to when they are put together in the same room. Or I want you to meet the badass blogger I’m jealous of and always mention their name to you. Or simply because you make a great plus one and I enjoy your company.

They said: “We’ll act annoyed when you do finally read our work. But then spend the entire next day trying to casually bring it up…” – Definitely not this blogger (me). For whatever reason, this author doesn’t like having their work read but that is not me. Definitely not me. You do understand right that if my boyfriend reads and retweets the blog post that does not only warm my heart but it increases chances of high readership? Let me not forget the compliments and comments that will hit my inbox, it makes me feel good. Bonus point is that if he reads that post on what I want for my birthday, it’s a job half done for him.

They said: “We don’t want to hear about that amazing post you read the other day. But yes, we want you to WhatsApp us the link, so we can read up on our competition. Quickly!” – Him reading other bloggers’ works makes me happy actually. I don’t think there is enough room for competition in blogging and I say this looking at the kind of blogging that I do, Personal blogging; it is just that, personal. One is writing his or her own story in his or her own voice. Send the link, but it is not for competition reasons. Let’s relate, enjoy and whatever but we are on not on some compare and contrast shit.

They said: “We probably had or still use a pseudo, and yes, we think its genius! Like the time we used Jean Jacket to launch our fashion blog. Sue Flay to prove we were a dedicated foodie and Jamie Dodger, well, just for the LOLs Yes, you’re correct to be giggling. Thank you.” – No honey we don’t do that here anymore. Read this. We embrace who we are. I am Fikile Nomadlozi Nyathi, sup?

They said: “Coffee. Just coffee.” – This blogger is not a coffee fan AT ALL. If you give me coffee I will drink it but if there are other choices, it won’t be my first. So anything else but coffee. Who said all bloggers love coffee? *rolls eyes* What of percentage instead? Make it red, make it dry. T for Thanks.

There you go folks. Part of what I responded to from the article published in the Cosmopolitan in 2016, yup. I already have my next post figured out, Yippie! It’s going to be about ‘Things you should know before dating a female blogger’, according to me of course.

Catch you in the next post,

I’m out