Feb 9, 2018 / First Friday

First Friday

New blogger? Welcome! Share a link to your first post, say hello to other new faces, and find your first few readers.

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To find, copy, and paste your link:
Head to your blog’s home page — not your dashboard, your blog itself. Click on the title of your post to open the individual post.

Highlight and copy the URL you see in your browser’s address bar, and paste the entire URL into a comment here.

Welcome to First Friday, a weekly open thread where any new blogger can share a link to his or her very first post with the larger WordPress.com community. To share your first post with us, copy and paste the link right into a comment here. If you’re not new, you can still be a part of First Fridays: visit a link or two, and leave the blogger a like or comment.

Please don’t use this as a space to share your first post…. that you published three years ago; ditto for simply sharing your latest post. Posts should have been published within the last month, and should be your first post. We’ll remove other posts to keep this space focused for new bloggers.

We ask that you help us keep this space focused by following a few additional guidelines:

  • We encourage anyone who shares a link to visit a few other bloggers. New readers for all!
  • When commenting, the third time is not the charm: don’t share the same link repeatedly, or in multiple First Friday threads. We’ll remove repeat posts.
  • Link directly to your new post, rather than to your blog generally — it makes it that much easier for folks to like the post or leave you comments.
  • Avoid repeated “Follow for a follow!” comments. (Tip: if you’re trying to build a readership, it’s much more effective to visit and comment on individual bloggers.)
  • To keep from losing your place while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on links to open them in a new tab or window.
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  1. Morning!

    My blog is just under a month old, so I imagine this will be my last time posting here. Part of the fun of starting a blog has been discovering other new blogs to follow!
    My blog mostly covers random observations or thoughts that I have. I tend to dive into stories from my past and contemplate on things. I also like to discuss entertainment (movies, and eventually books and video games).

    My very first post is still one of my favorites, as I tell a story from my childhood that I think explains my desire to be a writer, as well as dwells on a lost passion. It was definitely fun to write! https://jacobshull.com/2018/01/14/dreaming-vs-being/

    I look forward to connecting with more writers on the platform! 🙂

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  2. Hello, all of you new bloggers out there!😀 May I welcome each of you to the WordPress community; Yours truly is very much sure that you are going to enjoy the wonderful wide 🌎of blogging as much as I have, and still do, to this very day! May I wish all you bloggers the very best of luck in your newest adventure that is blogging! Oh, and one more thing-A very happy and blessed early Valentine’s Day to you all! With 💘-JW 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹👍

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    3. Really enjoyed reading your opinion! Even though I’ll never be a marine corps wife (I hope), your writing was somehow really engaging and I found myself genuinely interested in what you had to say. Keep it going, all the love 😊

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  15. Hello beginners. If you see this then you are off to a good start. I know I had no idea about the fantastic opportunity of First Fridays until too late. So share your first posts, check out some other new bloggers, too. Start building your blogging community today!

    It’s a snowy winter day here, so I will hopefully have a lot of time to go through those shared links.

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      3. Hey, thanks for coming through! It’s a reference to the Netflix show Lovesick; which basically tells the story of his diagnosis and how he must recall every special someone in his entire life.
        Man, on second thought, i really should explain that bit. Sorry for the initial uninviting scene, anyway.
        And again, thank you very, very much.

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    1. I have to say, the minute I saw those cute sheep faces I was sold! (But you’re also a great writer and you’re blog looks really nice!)

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    1. Your blog still says “Site Title” at the top. You might want to change it to whatever the blog name is. On the menu, under theme, under customize, click on “site identity” then you can change the title. If you want no title and just have your pic up there, I think you can just erase “site title” and leave it blank.

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    1. I like the conversational tone of your blog. Makes me feel like we’re at a café and you’re telling me about your friend. You might include a pic though to break up the text — you mentioned traffic –so if traffic is stalled and you’re stopped anyways, take a quick snapshot through your windshield. Or a pretty picture of a tree or something in your area. Or a picture of your phone on a table — since you talked of an app on a phone. Just a thought

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    1. it looks great but I would rewrite the text or reference your sources. You copied and pasted the text in from various sites but you don’t reference the original sites you got them from. If you got it from facebook or something that didn’t reference the original, you can paste a chunk of text into google with quote marks around it and it will show you the sites with that text. I did that and found your whole first Maldives paragraph came from “Maldives | White Beaches | Chains of Island | andBeyond” at https://www.andbeyond.com › Destinations › Asia › Maldives. If you put the references in the bottom as a list, it’ll also make you look like a good researcher. Making a link is easy — Type the title of the page and then paste in the url into the text you just typed and viola, it’s linked.
      And on the images, I would use images from places like Wikimedia Commons, Unsplash, Pixabay, etc to avoid copyright infringements. Anyways, just a couple thoughts.

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      2. You said “The point of Post is Top 10 Places To Visit , Not the description of them”. The point is on a blog everything on it matters–words, photos, everything. If the descriptions don’t matter to you, take the words off and just put names and locales of the places. That’s better anyways if you don’t want to write — photographs with few words makes a site more international–pictures have no language barrier.

        I get you think copying text is no big deal but it does matter. This is your first blog post — think about this — someone noticed you copied huge chunks of text on their first reading. I knew right away that it was all copied because the writing didn’t seem to go together between paragraphs. I learned about the copying of a chunk of text into google from an article about how authors find people who are plagiarizing them. Teachers do it too to find if students copied a paper.

        Some writers and photographers regularly do a search and send a take down the post notice — if the person doesn’t, the hosting company gets notified and sometimes a whole blog suddenly gets removed. References are important. Links back to the original site also act as a reference on blogs.

        Sometimes links/refs is not enough if a person copies too much. It is a DMCA thing ( Digital Millennium Copyright Act ) unless you are copying public domain material. Authors, photographers, and artists retain copyright even if they post it on the web unless they explicitly give up copyright. You can even paste a picture into google to see if anyone is using your photographs without your permission or crediting you.

        This is your first post. Making a switch now on your blog to copyright free material will save you tons of trouble later if you don’t want to do original photos and writing. Copyright free doesn’t not mean low quality. Lots of sites tell newbies where to find copyright free images. I like Unsplash.com — professional photographers have offered some amazing photographs free to use. you don’t have to credit if you don’t want to. Pop “Maldives” into the search bar or whatever top ten you are doing — easy-peasy.

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  25. Wow, made it in. Every time I’d visited before comments were already closed. Winter and I started a blog to share music and other things with each other as we are friends but live on the other side of the states from each other. I think it’s cool that blogs can be a sharing thing. What do you think of it?

    The honing of Japanese culture

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