PLEASE DO NOT BUY

An open letter to my readers and the advertisers I just realized are using this site to promote their products:

by Madelyn Griffith-Haynie, CTP, CMC, ACT, MCC, SCAC

I author a no-fee WordPress Blog on WordPress.com

I can’t opt out of your ads – I get that.

Your right to [attempt to] sell to me exceeds my rights in total.  I get that.

You’ve PAID for the privilege.

• Our world has devolved to the place where cash is king.
• I must learn to live with that, regardless of my personal feelings about it.
• My personal dollars have now become my ONLY personal votes.
  My only choice is where I choose to spend them.
• I will not buy products from obnoxious advertisers. EVER.

A boycott of ONE, joined by others, which may well build to an internet movement if you and the companies you include in your means of making a profit don’t heed the warning of my words.

I can also purchase and use the products and services of advertisers who deserve my patronage as an acknowledgment of their respect for me and for the value of the time and attention of my readers. Until I can afford to out-BUY you, those are my ONLY options.

Why this Post?

I am posting this open letter on my blog as a plea to my readers: urging them NOT to click on ANY intrusive advertising inserted on this site
- or any other - and not to use products whose advertisers employ
intrusive tactics.

What would change my feelings toward the advertisers
and their ads?

STOPTHEINTRUSIVEBLINKINGMOVING
FOCUS PULLING  ARROGANCE !

I have no problem with well-done, sensitvely placed STATIC ads. 

• They provide an information service, especially when targeted.
• I am an avid magazine reader and ALWAYS read the ads as well as the editorial content.
• Except for those that attempt to force my attention with those cards that change how the magazine handles, I enjoy them, study them, and often buy products based upon them. (I rip out the cards, throw them away, and note the advertiser only to AVOID buying their products, btw.)

Here’s the difference:
I appreciate advertisers who grant me “respect of choice.”

Moving, blinking, jumping internet ads are like hyperactive
two-year-olds l-o-n-g past bedtime.

We love our children, but the ads are obnoxious. Worse than spam.

Your right to [attempt to] sell to me DOES NOT and can not trump my right to focus with intentionality.

What I DO here

My blog – indeed, my life – is dedicated to individuals with Attention Deficits and Executive Functioning Dysregulation.

• My readers struggle to stay tracked on the page.
• Neurologically.
• They are desperate for help and NEED the information I am willing to GIVE to them on ADDandSoMuchMore.com.
• Their ranks will swell as the Baby Boomer generation begins to experience cognitive decline.

I give away far more than I sell.  By choice.  Because I do not create revenue on my blog, I must write on a platform that costs me a great deal of time, but no cash.

And now I learn that all of my economic sacrifices and hours spent optimizing MY blog to promote focus and intentionality may be obviated by YOUR desire to make money from my readers and the fact that you don’t care whether they can focus on the words they came to read or NOT?

Based on the tactics employed web-wide, you clearly PREFER that they focus on your advert and, like a whiny child, will do whatever you think will work to FORCE attention.

That’s just wrong.

What’s sad, is that it doesn’t even work to sell more widgets.  It simply undercuts intentionality, reduces enjoyment and increases stress and cortisol production.  Neurologically.

PLEASE.  Require your advertisers to settle down and BEHAVE themselves.

Thank you.

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• 5 - Thoughts of Healing on September 11, 2012
• 6 - When the Going Gets TOUGH
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• 8 - Lessons from a Young Blogger

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