Recently, a friend has challenged me: “If you had become the parent (either Mom or Dad) of someone who just entered his / her path to online earning programs … what would you say to him / her?”
Wow … what a challenge. I haven’t entered the phase of parenting life, so this one hit me. However, I accepted the challenge, and the letter below is my answer to his challenge.
So … this is a letter I would write if I already had white hair today, and had also fathered or mothered a ‘young’ son / daughter who had just entered the world of online earning programs …
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Dear Child,
How are you? Well, it has been a long time since the first time I saw you coming into this world, with your very first breath and loud crying. I still remember the day you were born, and back then I wondered about your future, I didn’t have any idea how you would grow up one day.
Today, I also wonder how the times have passed so fast. Back then I had watched you make your first crawl as a baby and then your first step when you started to walk, and today there you are … standing on your own feet, and you are doing your own … running, rushing for all things you want to do.
Well, I know your interest in earning money has also grown too. I don’t know if this is already the time for you to do this, but I have to admit that one day you can no longer count on us, your parents, to afford your living. And as far as I know, you have been doing some researching about any opportunity to make your own money. And, since the Internet has become worldwide and has also provided this possibility online, you have also started digging your own way to survive in this money making field.
Probably you have been joining any online affiliates and establishing your own websites or blogs for making some profits from them, or probably you have participation in any GPT (”Get Paid To”) programs, PTR, PTC, and PTS, PTP or something else, since these are the most popular ones. I just keep wondering, my Child … have you ever consulted somebody about these things? Do you have any good mentor, Child? I keep hoping that you really do.
All right, we are older than you; some children may address us as old folks, the outdated, some would say that we know less about Internet than you do. But, Child, the world of Internet is the world of the same people; the difference is that you are not seeing them face to face like we always do in the offline areas. However, there are still real people behind the Internet. And know this, my Child, as the offline world has good and bad people, the online world of Internet does have both of them too. So I believe that the same rules apply to both of the world of Internet and the offline world I have known so far.
And I need to warn you, be careful in your online journey, because you don’t even see those people’s faces, you don’t meet them face to face, and you might not even know how they look like. Even in the offline world, when you see a person’s face, you can’t even tell whether this is an honest person or not. So how would you be able to tell the difference in the online world, in which you see no real face at all? How would you tell whether the photos displayed on some websites were their real pictures or not? How would you be able to know whether they provided their real contact addresses or phones? How would you know that you are in secure areas of earning? Since you might know the Internet better than we old folks do, can you tell me how you would do that?
Anyway, this is the globalization era, so I don’t think I can limit your exploration because that will mean that I have hindered you, that I don’t let you grow up, that I don’t want you to improve and to do things on your own. So, explore them then, but please … be careful and be wise in your journey, no matter how young you are, there are those who just won’t care to help you at all, but maybe the good people will also help you in the World Wide Web as you learn and approach them for any advice that we can’t give to you. However, an important alert to you, Child, you might get deceived by scams, since we cannot tell which ones will really help you or pay you, and which ones will not. You might even face some wolves in disguise as trusted websites / emails; I think you know the word phishing better than I do? So, be careful. Stay alert, Child.
This is your own area of exploration and since you will want to do it your own way, you will have to make a lot of careful steps and to figure them out by yourself. Both of us, your parents, can only watch from the backstage as we wish for the best of your part. However, when you want to go back to ask our opinion or advice, we will be glad to give you some. But in the end, the decision is still yours.
Just one thing I would like to request from you, Child. I hope you would do your earning part honestly. It is a virtual world, truly; still we are facing the real people behind the masks of the web pages. I believe any crimes will still get caught even if the person hides behind a false identity. I wish you will not become such a person at all, because all of us will still get into the trouble when you become such a person. You have to promise me to stay in ‘clean’ area, Child, okay?
I would also like to see you give any good contribution to other people as well, like we usually do to our neighborhood or our own family offline. Since you are participating in the world of online earning programs, maybe you will be able to give some feedbacks to the newcomers that may enter the same realm of online earning programs after you did.
If you have experienced some scams or phishings, then tell those who have not been through any similar experiences, so they will not taste the same sorrow you have ever tasted. If you have been through various good and bad experiences, then share your tips and advices with the others based on your experiences in this money making field. I hope you won’t become too selfish by keeping these good things for your own; this is still a society where you have to give some good contribution back to the others as well.
You might be questioning me right now, but I hope someday you will understand what I mean. The real success is not based on how much money you have earned, my Child, success is about life, it is about how many people have also gotten the benefits and become as successful as you are, because you have shared what you know for the good sake of the others.
And then, both of us, your parents will not regret this day, the day when I say, “Go, Child, explore it and find the way that works for you.”
All we wish is that you will become successful more than all of us have ever dared to dream … and for the closing of this letter, there is one more request from us:
Please remember to keep the balance in your life by not forgetting your offline routines. Okay, Child?
Thanks for reading my letter. Have a good day … or night.
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