This is my entry for an @OriginalWorks sponsored writing contest. You can find the post introducing the contest here:
270 STEEM + 40 Bonuses ~ Sponsored Writing Contest: Kind Ads
My mom raised me well. She was a dedicated, passionate mother with a clear vision of who her son should become. This amazing person who gave birth to me was a lot like an old Baptist preacher: Sometimes right, sometimes wrong but never, ever in doubt!
I wore a suit to church, got good grades and used proper grammar. Obviously, absolutely no cursing was allowed in our house.
Just to be clear, the above picture is not of my mom and me. And you do not know me well enough to laugh like that... 😎
After two years at varsity, my dad looked at my results and announced that he is not paying for such rubbish any more. This resulted in me doing a two-year stint in my country's national defence force. I am unsure who cried more, my mother or me.
Sadly, the army taught me to curse. I was trained by a sergeant who could shout at me for ten minutes without a pause. And without using a single noun or verb that I could quote here, on my current NSFW setting.
Going home was painful. My loving mother got a huge shock and cried for days in response to the language coming from my mouth. Traumatised by her response, I stopped cursing. And I never took it up again, even after my mother's departure to heaven.
Until now!
Nothing ticks me off as much as uninvited, unwelcome, unannounced marketing on the internet. If you want to hear me curse, get an ad to pop up on my screen while I'm trying to read something else. I'll put my sergeant to shame when you interrupt the video I'm watching with an ad. Fill my screen with so many banners I have to hire a private investigator to find the content for which I'm on the page and I'll curse the air blue. Bluer than blue!
I hate the intrusive nature of marketing on my screen but I have a problem...
It is called FOMO. Fear Of Missing Out.
I want to buy things. I'm on Steemit to make money so that I am able to buy more things. There is a long list of things that I want to buy and I want the best price and the best quality. If there is a special on the things for which I am looking, I want to know about it!
How on earth do I reconcile these two things? Am I doomed to be a cursing fool for the rest of my life, upsetting my mother even in heaven?
Enter KIND ADS!
These guys will help you browse the net without cursing! 😇 AND they will help you find the stuff you want and the specials you need! Here are some of the promises they make.
"Kind Ads is an advertising platform that serves user-friendly ads without taking any middleman fees. With Kind Ads, not only do advertisers save money, but publishers keep more of it."
"Kind Ads will show you more relevant ads through channels like email marketing and push notifications so you can browse the web without being bombarded by irrelevant ads."
This sounds to me like a great act of kindness, maybe the most significant possible in our digital world.
For the sake of my beautiful, wonderful mother, please investigate their service!
They are decentralised, permission-based and highly cost-effective!
