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Wow, amazing!

suffering:
Why is she wearing clown shoes?

I love her shoes

Creeza:
use payoneer. Or if you want I can give you a working PayPal address, but it's based in UK. Then I use the money to buy amazon vouchers and sell the codes. Because payoneer can't receive funds from individuals, strictly organisations like amazon and Co. It's an alternative, you may not get all your funds due to chargs but even energy is never 100 percent transferred.

Send me a mail. If you are interested

I’ve sent you an email. Thank you so much.

Hello guys, I’ve been having problems receiving payments on my PayPal like my I’ve never received on my PayPal since I registered.
However, I am able to send payments and make purchases seamlessly.
I don’t know why. And I having pending payments for my services to receive but each time these organizations want to pay it gives them an error message. And I’ve done over 4 reviews on this platforms.

I’ll be be grateful if someone helps me out here

tpiar:
I remember when Literature section was much calmer and quieter.

Then someone brought in thousands of monikers (perhaps a nler asked him to boost literature section? Dunno).


It was never the same again, all peace and tranquility gone. Thousands of people posting various literary works and then the inevitable complaints.

I think the thousands of ids would possible if say multiple people open myriads of monikers for themselves.

I remember and miss those days too tpiar

Creeza:
been there, done all these and it was not easy.

My dear, let me tell you something, if this was possible then you would tell the DJ's to stop playing songs by different artist and making a mixtape. Now I don't really care anymore. If you copy and paste story anywhere, that's even better... I will draw all your readers on such a blog or even Facebook group with proof of being the original writer... How?


I will send them a copy of maybe an episode, far into the story... much more far than what I have uploaded and you copied. So you see; I don't care anymore. . besides There are a billion writers on planet earth, if you go just for the money, you will never make the name.... Life goes on.... one day my hard work will pay

Hmmm thank you for sharing your experience it feels better knowing I’m not the only one facing but I know one thing for sure is that people who do such things won’t go unpunished

hidhrhis:
Seriously I see nairaland as a place to build trust
Why did i say that
I notice few things about a few authors who are very good on here on how they make it on nl as a writer
1. As a writer on nairaland try to be very good in the way you write that your readers Will be able to picture everything,let them.get glued to your story,captivated,make your name a household on nl,check the number of views and the rate at which ppl drop commemt when you are slow in updating the story will determine how much they love your story
2. As a writer if you dont want them to steal your ideas upload half of your story look for where the suspense is high end it their as part 1 then tell them to co contact you via email or whatsapp for the part 2 at the rate of 500 if your story is very good at a minimum you will have not less than 20 people who will contact you
Or you should do it like this
I have an author here who only update once a week but at the end of each update he always put "contact me for the next update via 09066666666666 it got to a stage i read the story to a part i knew if i dont contact this author i and pay 50 naira i wont concentrate on anything i chatted him up transferred the 50 naira but after reading it i couldnt take it again paid another so anytime the update is ready he upload it on his whatsapp status and he did more than 65 episode and i paid for it all

Not a bad concept thank you for suggesting that

mhizgracie22:
Sorry about what happened dear. Someone named Bolarinwa Adedimeji went as far as copying a story I posted on nairaland with my old account (Jane's Dilemma), editing the names of some characters, designing a book cover for the story and publishing it on Amazon and other online book stores. Several others copied the story and posted it on Facebook, I had to message them to take it down but at some point, I gave up because they were too many and most of them changed the title. The last story I posted on nairaland (Blood), was copied by several people from tushstories.com where I initially posted it last year, some of them posted it on their blogs, others on Facebook and the worst part is that many of them changed the title of the story. I don't know how someone will comfortably steal another person's work, change the title and claim to be the author, there's a special place in hell for plagiarists. The first time I discovered that someone plagiarised my work, I actually cried and I contacted the person on Facebook immediately, but now, I don't have the strength to confront any plagiarist online, I'm tired, I've decided to leave them for God. I'll still post my works on nairaland but not the ones I cherish, my cherished stories and articles are sitting pretty in my phone until I decide what to do with them.

Sis, I’m still stunned as to how people can be so heartless and without conscience. It’s crazy. They have a special place in hell indeed.

Sorry about your works dear

autofreak2020:
Oh, sorry about that. I know know how it feels because I have been there.

My works has been copied, even by non-english speakers as it was translated. It is painful I got no credit, but life goes on, we move.

What you can do it to type it, screenshot it and share as image here.

If you go, we will miss you.




I am Abimbola, Lead Strategist at Kobobrand.
We help business owners with free business growth hacks.

Thank you very much Abimbola. You’re a nice person.

After the series of series of events that’s happened lately, where in my works (hard earned) were plagiarized on a number of websites, I have decided onwards to never post any work of mine on this platform ever again and I highly discourage prospective bloggers or freelancers from doing same for the stated reason.

As you could have guessed, nairaland doesn’t pay you for your works, you won’t get much referrals to your blog as the lots here are out to copy and paste peoples hardearned works.

I already contacted 2 out of the 4 people who copied my works without acknowledging me and I won’t mention names because some obliged and did the needful. The rest of you know yourselves and you also know you can’t go scot free with this.

Bye nairaland (with a heavy heart).

And I swear by God to y’all copying and pasting my work on your blogs claiming ownership and not giving credits to me, you won’t go scot free! I swear it damn.

This is the last time I’m posting any of my works here jeez! 4 websites already plagiarized this, word to word;

Streetvibes.com
Afroglobal

Olalekan Ajimoti ( the king of the plagiarists)
Etc

My God will punish y’all and before He does I’ll hunt y’all down, you won’t go scot free. I have the proof of my rough manuscripts.

Plagiarism is illegal and considered a crime in Nigeria!

Jaynom:
na copy and paste

I beg to differ, this is my hard earned work and I have proof!!

Elssa:
Really enlightening

Thank you

‘OUR BLOOD NO JAM’

It’s a popular saying I’m certain you’ve heard or said yourself especially if you’re from or reside in Nigeria. It’s a common phrase we use when we do not naturally connect or when we have no reason why we click more with some people or someone.

Has something or someone ever caught your attention in seconds after meeting them?

Are you aware that science plays a role in who we’re attracted to?

Sometimes we meet people and immediately or overtime are able to establish a rapport with them. Other times, we meet people and we don’t just relate well with them even after a long time of knowing them and we can’t seem to find any logical explanation for that.

Here’s why we click more with some people than others:

Research has shown that the intensity of attraction or likeness we have towards people depends upon the number of things we have in common with them. And when we meet people for the first time, we constantly search (on a subconscious level) for similarities between us.

These similarities vary from facial features, smile, language, intellectuality, religion, beliefs, dress sense etc.

Immediately we’ve identified one or two similarities, we like them instantly (note that the brain is capable of doing this in microseconds).

Why do we click more with some people?

We feel (on the subconscious) they face the things we face, feel what we feel, make the same mistakes we make, fight similar battles we fight and even hide the same things we’re hiding; we feel like we’ve found someone just like us, someone from our ‘tribe’.

So we begin to crave their indulgence, we are freer with them hence we love to converse more with them.

The more things we have in common, the more we like them.

Now, how do you know when they like you too?

They smile when they talk to you


I hope by now, you can tell a plastic smile from a genuine smile? When someone likes you, they’ll smile at you when you talk sometimes even when you exchange mere glances (a grin or a slight smile will suffice). Most times, you’ll find yourself smiling back and in that instance, an ambience of friendship is created.

They’re willing to help you


When someone likes you, they can’t help but be favorably predisposed towards you. Such a person can go an extra mile for you. For instance, not everyone gets an extra copy of receipts from the bank when they make bill payments ��‍♀️.

You get to exchange contacts


This can happen immediately you met, the type we see in love scenes of movies. It can also take a while, sometimes it never happens, especially when your relationship with such person is strictly professional and fleeting hence their contact is not necessary.

To understand how much similarities influence why we click more with some people and vice versa, Donn Byrne, a renowned American psychologist developed a method known as ‘the phantom stranger technique’.

The procedure begins with participants completing a questionnaire about their attitudes on a variety of topics such as the use of nuclear weapons and etc.

Next, they take part in a ‘person-perception’ phase where they evaluate a person based on their responses to the same questionnaire.

By manipulating the degree of similarities between a person and a ‘phantom stranger’, Byrne was able to conclude that participants reported feeling more attracted to people who held similar attributes. This is why we click more with some people.

However, there are exceptions of course. One study found that the more familiar we become with people, the more we like them and even begin to find them more attractive. This should therefore explain why friends from the opposite sex may tend to develop feelings for each other after some time of being together.

Well, this article is inexhaustible, which is why I’d love to learn your opinions.

Do you believe we like people who bear similarities with us? Or do you have a contrary opinion?

Please feel free to drop a comment.

Don’t forget to click on my signature to see more of these

fieryy:

Coming to an end
So that is it ladies. Unfortunately, I can't drop my hot oil routine because I forgot it at home, but I promise to post about this when I'm back home.

I want to shout out to Ammyluv, Babybunny, Chimatara, Liztemi, Mamus , Moiami, SwTee, Tatacherie, Qhutetomsel and Gracile, 4peace4 for their contributions to the group.

Special thanks to Mbamto, whom I fell like I'm disappointing because I knew how much she loved the group.

If your name is not on the list, I'm sorry. It's nothing personal, I swear. I just sometimes saved your names as letters instead of your Nl names, to make the adding into the group process easier. But shout out to you as well, I really appreciate.

So coming to an end, I'd love to shout out to my bestie jannette, who's been there from day one and whose hair journey you can follow here on nl

https://www.nairaland.com/5677863/growing-out-hair-natural-hair

Another one is that of neloyah


https://www.nairaland.com/5714515/nappily-ever-after#87098431

I wish you all the best in your hair journey and if you have any questions regarding hair, you're of course free to ask me. However, mention fierry instead of lovelygurl.

Awwn lovelygurl I’ve missed you!
Please add me back on the group I lost my phone so I’m no longer on the group
Here’s my number:
Lemme know when you have so I can modify and delete my number from here. Thank you