Age Requirement for Blogging?!
Earning Money Online
I’ve always loved the ability to earn money online, especially in the past. I managed to earn a considerable amount of money, simply through blogging. Sure it’s nothing much, but for doing something that I love to do, it’s pretty great that I can earn money while doing it. Unfortunately, I stopped blogging for cash for quite some time, and recently decided to start. This blog is still relatively new, so I’m not exactly making much progress with it yet. However, while trying to restart my personal “blogging for cash” campaign, I came across this site called SocialSpark.
Founded by the same people who run PayPerPost, which is probably the internet’s most popular place to turn to for advertisers for your blog, SocialSpark is… well… to me, the exact same thing as PayPerPost. But for some reason, the opportunities there seem to offer higher payouts. Obviously I tried to register this blog with SocialSpark upon seeing that.
SocialSpark’s Ridiculous Policy
Unfortuantely, my blog got rejected, for a reason which I totally did not expect:
Thank you for your blog submission!
Unfortunately, as per our terms of service, bloggers must be at least 18 years of age in order to participate in our Marketplace.
Thank you.
John C @ Social Spark
Seriously? I can’t take part because I’m not 18? I really wonder what’s the rationale for having an age requirement, is it really true that a 14 or 15 year old can’t blog better than an 18 year old? For crying out loud a kid started earning money online by blogging when he was just 13-years-old, and you’re telling me I can’t take part because I’m only 17?
Now, the wait…
Unfortunately, nothing I can really do about it, except rant here on my blog, which practically nobody reads anyway (for now 
). The only thing I can do is wait till my 18th birthday and then resubmit my blog. In the mean time, my PayPal account will continue running dry while trying to keep this domain and server live, seeing as how I’ve got no avenues to earn any income for now.
But seriously, I wonder what’s the rationale behind the age requirement…
