# I'm in the Huffington Post! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947 "2012-06-03T16:43:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/21 "2012-06-04T13:10:13Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Good job. > > Also, congratulations on being one of the dozen or so pieces of original writing on the Huffington Post! > > That’s an exaggeration, i know, but i simply can’t bear that site, which has made a business out of adding a link and a few comments to other people’s content and calling it their own. Not to mention the fact that you can hardly find the fucking text amidst all of the “Follow” and “Like” and “React” and “Tag” and “Share” and “Tweet” bullshit, which they insist on putting at the top of the article. My politics are square in the HP’s target area, but this is the first time i’ve even visited the site in months. > > I’ll be interested to know, **Girl Next Door** , whether the exposure you get from this really is worth giving your talents away for free to a multimillion dollar enterprise owned by AOL. I hope it is, and it certainly could be that HP’s large reader base will mean more eyes on your work and more visits to your own site. I’m still rather skeptical, though, that those 9,000 free content providers (Wiki’s estimate of HP bloggers) are all getting decent value for their time and effort. Of course they aren’t. The site is a huge ripoff. But so long as people will write for free, businesspeople will let them do so. It’s capitalism, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/22 "2012-06-04T15:48:17Z")
The bit about the Huffington Post ripoff scheme is a bit of a hijack, so I’ve started a thread over in Great Debates about paying for blogging if you’re interested. [You can find it here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=15130982#post15130982) Whether or not I feel the OP was fairly compensated, she did do a great bit of writing and I don’t want to detract from rewarding her for it with congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/23 "2012-06-04T16:06:13Z")
That’s a great article, congratulations! I’m not a parent, but I read my brother’s blog ([Doodaddy](http://doodaddy.net)), so I’m a connoisseur of the genre. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/24 "2012-06-04T18:02:26Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/25 "2012-06-05T02:35:13Z")
Thanks much, y’all. I appreciate the kind words. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/26 "2012-06-05T02:51:47Z")
Great job! Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/27 "2012-06-05T15:02:14Z")
Got another one up! (OK, that sounds vaguely sexual.) > **[Why My Life Would Suck Without My Husband Of 23 Years](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/to-my-husband-on-our-23rd_b_1562965)** > > Remember the picture of us looking out the window? Me in my giant 1980s wedding dress with the poufy sleeves and the giant bow on the butt and you looking dapper in your morning jacket. We're gazing out into our future, the sun lighting our young and... ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/28 "2012-06-05T15:14:01Z")
That is so cool! I loved both of the articles! I’m deathly curious though how did you get published? Send in a pitch? Know someone? Sleep with someone? ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_Next\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/29 "2012-06-05T15:19:34Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I’m deathly curious though how did you get published? Send in a pitch? Know someone? Sleep with someone? Met one of the editors at a blogging conference. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/30 "2012-06-05T17:33:58Z")
> [@Girl\_Next\_Door](#): > > Got another one up! (OK, that sounds vaguely sexual.) > > [To My Husband On Our 23rd Wedding Anniversary | HuffPost Life](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-irish-evans/to-my-husband-on-our-23rd_b_1562965.html) Damn! You on a roll! ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/31 "2012-06-05T18:01:19Z")
That first article was really good. The Facebook post about moms stalking their kids out of “love” gave me chills because my mom was _exactly_ like that. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947/32 "2012-06-05T19:31:53Z")
Great article, and you are 100% right about that Facebook thing. The friends of mine that post it are also the ones who never seem to post a picture without the whole smiling family, or how proud they are of their child’s achievement in dance or softball or monkey wrangling. And of course some of the pictures and posts are genuine and lovely, but some of them - especially combined with the sheer volume of them and the complete eclipse of any shred of their personality not child related - just screams desperation and “we’re smiling, right? I’m doing it right aren’t I? I’m winning at being a mother!” Loved the article, in case you couldn’t tell. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-in-the-huffington-post/623947.md?page=1)