How Did You First Discover This Site?
By Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (121775)
Gainesville, Florida
January 29, 2016 6:42am CST
Through a discussion on another thread I was having with @JudyEv in Australia, it made me think about how people all over the world first came across this site, and I wondered how people first heard of myLot.
I have been on this site for a few months now, and I migrated over here from the former BB site a few weeks before it shut down. I had first heard about this site from other BB members who had mentioned it in their comments and posts. Prior to that, I was a member of BB for a couple of years. I first heard about that site from reading an article in either Money magazine or Forbes magazine. They did a story on various ways to earn money online.
So, how did you first hear about this site, and what prompted to you to check it out and join?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
29 Jan 16
@JolietJake I was at B when we made big money - I was cashing out $50 a day every day. Who needed pennies when you could make dollars....I don't remember anyone every talking about this site. I put in as much time there as I do here now.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
29 Jan 16
@JolietJake I wonder that more of the original members don't seem to have come back. I'll bet that about three-quarter of the present members are ex-bubblers - would you agree with that?
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@JudyEv (342448)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jan 16
@JolietJake I was writing in Infobarrel and people started talking about BB and the money they were earning (this is when BB was paying good money) so I migrated from Infobarrel to BB.
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@IcyFog (17)
• China
29 Jan 16
I just found this site few minutes ago,by searching "how to find people to chat". ^^
after the old icq chat was shut down few days ago,every chatsite became less interesting cuz people could not hold a topic .im looking forward to enjoying fun on here.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
@DianneN hahaha you're right! I think it was another Dianne that was mentioned! Sorry about that mixup! But still, you do have good friends on here! I even remember you from back in the BB days! By the way, are you currently in Florida?
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
You seem to be quite popular with other members on this site! Several others mentioned that you were the one who mentioned or encouraged them to join! Kudos to you!
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@DianneN (247184)
• United States
29 Jan 16
@moffittjc What makes you say that? I saw no mention of my name.
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@Morleyhunt (21744)
• Canada
29 Jan 16
I heard about it from another Bubblews member. A couple of weeks after I joined ( I wasn't ver active yet because of limited internet access) my brother suggested I might be interested in Mylot.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
How did you first find out about BB?
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@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
29 Jan 16
I learned about it from a Bubblews friend. I missed writing and interacting so I joined just last Sunday.
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@Marilynda1225 (83176)
• United States
29 Jan 16
@nottoooldtowrite glad you found your way here
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
It's nice to see you finally found your way over to this site! Many old BB members are on this site now!
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@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
29 Jan 16
@Marilynda1225 I sure am glad too.
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@anupamas2 (19)
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30 Jan 16
Was looking for ways to earn money online when i came upon an article which mentioned this site. I am not a great writer so article writing was out of question. Chatting and earning at the same time seemed great. So joined this site. This is my first post.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Feb 16
Welcome to the site, and thanks for reading and commenting on my post! It's nice to have you here, and I hope you enjoy your experiences on this site. Interact with people as much as you can, and you will find this site very rewarding!
@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Feb 16
@hazel12345 I agree! I have really found this site to be fun, entertaining, and engaging!
@hazel12345 (41)
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3 Feb 16
nice to hear that .my experience says that we are really going to enjoy this site . Lets hope for the best
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@LeaPea2417 (37396)
• Toccoa, Georgia
29 Jan 16
I am pretty sure I first heard about this site at Bubblews. Then I heard about it again at Persona Paper. It was the second time I heard about it, I thought I would try it here.
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@LeaPea2417 (37396)
• Toccoa, Georgia
31 Jan 16
@moffittjc Yes, all of the writing sites it seems do fail. One thing that is good about this site is that it had a slump where it could not pay the writers, but it stayed online and didn't close down and then when it was able to pay again, it was able to because it had not shut down. I wish Persona Paper would not shut it's doors completely. I wish it and others could have found a way to eventually bounce back.
@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
How did you first find BB and PP?
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
30 Jan 16
@LeaPea2417 Do we see an inevitable pattern here? Are all paid writing sites doomed to fail? It seems none of them are sustainable. I know this site has been around a long time, but it hasn't been without it's issues also. Everything seems fine now, so I hope it keeps staying that way!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
29 Jan 16
Since I left Bubbs long ago the last place I wrote was Persona Paper and if my memory still functions (which is questionable) that's where I heard about myLot - that was mid-August.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Feb 16
@ramapo17 Didn't Persona Paper just shut down? I thought several other myLot members were talking about it shutting down.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
How did you first find out about BB and Persona Paper?
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
3 Feb 16
@AbbyGreenhill How long were you on Persona Paper. I just heard about that recently and looked at it. It seems similar to BB but I didn't get into any details. This is enough for me. Did you make good money over there?
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@DaddyEvil (137873)
• United States
2 Feb 16
I didn't hear about myLot. I stumbled across it while looking for some place to bring my friends when Bubbs started having major problems. I had searched for about a year before I came across myLot and decided to give it a shot.
I had some initial problems here but still told several of my friends from Bubbs that we might be able to make myLot into a new home for all of us. Little did I know that some of my friends were already members of this site! LOL! It was funny when I started hearing they already had accounts here as they were members under the old myLot!
Many of my friends that did follow me here are still here. A few didn't like the site and moved elsewhere. I did make sure I had their email addresses so I could keep in touch with them, no matter where they went!
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
3 Feb 16
I think this site was just a different experience for many of the old BB users. I know when I first found this site, I wasn't too excited about it, but in fairness I decided to give it a try. For about a month, I was writing on BB and on this site, and came to appreciate the differences between the two sites. I'm glad I stuck it out on this site, because once I became familiar with it, I actually loved it!
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
3 Feb 16
@DaddyEvil you just want to keep tabs on all of us.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
3 Feb 16
@moffittjc It is easer to write on here and the chatting back and forth with the other people is so much fun. It seems to go faster and we can chat back and forth to so many people at once.
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@Marilynda1225 (83176)
• United States
29 Jan 16
Me too...I was on Bubblews for a few years (my daughters were there, making money and having fun) and then my wonderful friends/connections there prompted me to come here when the B site started going downhill. I'm certainly glad I listened cause I love being here and being able to interact with all my previous friends as well as some great new ones.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
Did you join BB because of your daughters, or did they join because of you? How did you or they first hear about BB?
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@KristenH (33393)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
29 Jan 16
A friend of mine from another site told me about this site back in late September. We're both members of Hub Pages. I was recently on another site that didn't work out so well, since I knew my time was up. I won't go into details about that site in question. I love this site.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
In general, how did you first get started with paid writing sites? How did you find out they existed? I would have never known had I not read an article about them in a magazine!
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
@KristenH I guess many people who are active participants in blogs, chatrooms, and other online forums would find out about sites like this through online word-of-mouth. Never thought about that, as I don't really have time to participate in other online community forums.
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@KristenH (33393)
• Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
29 Jan 16
@moffittjc True. Me neither. But I try to make them with what I have and juggle them back and forth.
@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
Judy, how did you first find out about BB? I read about it in a magazine. Had I not picked up that particular issue, I may have never found out about BB!
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@JudyEv (342448)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 Jan 16
@moffittjc I was writing on Infobarrel - still do occasionally - and people were beginning to mention BB so I sussed it out and joined.
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@Auntylou (4264)
• Oxford, England
1 Feb 16
@moffittjc My son found Bubblews on Martin's Money expert site and told me
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
Yeah, I was starting to have a lot of BB members encourage me to gravitate over to this site. I'm glad I did! Were you on any other writing sites before myLot?
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@Dena91 (16698)
• United States
30 Jan 16
@moffittjc no I wasn't. BB was my first until they closed and now here at mylots.
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@zebra2222 (5268)
• United States
2 Feb 16
I had been on this site years ago. It did nothing for me. I came back to see that it had changed. It's better now.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
2 Feb 16
Were you here back during that time when it had stopped paying its members?
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
29 Jan 16
I discovered this site a long time ago in 2010 after I got married to my husband. I was staying home and felt bad I wasn't being in any money so I did a search online on how to make free money online and this site was on the search engines page. I checked it out, tried and made money for two years it was what I made to help my family especially when I was pregnant.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
That's a pretty cool story! Glad you found something that could help bring in a little money! I know when a family is expecting a baby, the finances can get a little tight!
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@ShyBear88 (59347)
• Sterling, Virginia
30 Jan 16
@moffittjc not just a little we where living in my husband's grandparents house because we just moved to a new state and had no jobs. My husband had been working a few months when we got married and pregnant with our first. We have been slowly getting more and more money in. We started dirt broke many times with no food but have made it to know where we have three kids. Still don't have a lot of money but we make things work and the kids don't care.
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@DanieGirl80587 (2713)
• United States
29 Jan 16
I heard about MyLot on another writing site I am registered on. I was excited about the idea of making money while discussing different topics. So far I like it and am here to stay.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Feb 16
I was a little hesitant when I first joined this site, not knowing how welcoming the members were to rookies like me. But I found that everyone was so friendly and encouraging, and I fell in love with this site right away!
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
4 Feb 16
@ramapo17 I love how you described us all as a bunch of chatty people! I like that! lol
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
3 Feb 16
@DanieGirl we are a very chatty bunch and you can find some of us here every night and all through the night so if you can't sleep sometime, stop in and chat with us.
@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
31 Jan 16
The failure of BB must have brought this site some good business! I also just heard that Persona Paper is shutting down as well, so probably a lot of those members will gravitate over here as well.
@euphie (573)
• Ballymena, Northern Ireland
3 Feb 16
@moffittjc True, I know quite a few people moved to Persona when Bubblews started messing people around
@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
29 Jan 16
I was having lunch with Deborah-Diane, who first told me about Bubblews. She mentioned this site and that she had joined. I went home and did the same.
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@moffittjc (121775)
• Gainesville, Florida
29 Jan 16
I wonder how she first heard about BB and myLot?
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
30 Jan 16
@moffittjc She is active on social media and writes several places online. She knows about many sites.
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