Nice Not Naughty

Since I will probably never be famous enough to incur his wrath of pink nose squiggles and vengeful name-callings, I’ll just go ahead and say it: I have never been a fan of Perez Hilton. With a successful gossip site built solely on meanness, I realized a couple years ago that I can at least do my part to not spreading his nastiness around the world by not reading the site. I vowed to refrain from touching it. Four years sober and counting! (Except for that one time I may or may not have blind-applied to a position that may or may not have been for his company. But that’s a story for another time…when his lawyers won’t go loco on my butt.)

Instead, I grew increasingly attracted to another site also making its money from celebrity news but told from a perspective of compliments and celebrity reveries, Justjared.com. It was the anti-Perez Hilton, if you will.

Because I am also a true teenybopper at heart, I was equally as delighted to find that Just Jared had a sister site for the Hannah Montana set called JustJaredJr.com. Squeal!

It was great to read the The New York Times finally shed some light to this star-studded celeb site in their recent article, “Nice-Guy Bloggers Needn’t Finish Last with a profile of the site and its founder, Chinese-American Jared Eng. The article discusses how the 28-year old Mr. Eng came along way from studying computer science at Columbia University to a mini-blogpire which includes five full-time employees and a company which “easily going to gross seven figures” this year.

When I first started this blog a little over two years ago (I think), friends warned me I probably won’t  get that much attention because I’m not doing something racy like posting my sexcapades or talking crap about other people. I mean, seriously, who wants to read about how much I love Taylor Swift and my pretty iPhone?

But Just Jared’s success just proves that a little sweetness in the world can go a long way.

Take that, Perez!

-Just Janice

This post also up on www.audreymagazine.com

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