Happy Friday everyone!

Welcome to another weekly round-up post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, writers, vloggers, podcasters, and other fellow content creators. Each and every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly round-up blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our e-mail subscribers.

Here are this week’s (May 19 – May 25, 2018) most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. LA Times Among US-based News Sites Blocking EU Users Due to GDPR
The general data protection regulation, which has come into effect, has prompted a number of prestigious US-based websites to shut off access to internet users in the European Union.

2. Why Every Artist Must Also Be A Marketer
Very few of us got into this business because we wanted to have to manage social media accounts or approve an advertising campaign. Writers became writers because they wanted to write…

3. Web Comic: Nothing in This World Can Take the Place of Persistence
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

4. The ‘Sharent’ Trap: Should ​You Ever Put Your ​Children on Social Media?
It’s more and more usual for people to share pictures of their children online – and some have even turned it into a lucrative business. Is it always wrong to mix kids and social media?

5. StumbleUpon Is Closing Down After 16 Years
StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end and is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to Mix.com.

That’s all folks! You can view all the rest of the community’s top submissions (11 more) here.

Tune in next Friday for another great weekend reading list that will make you a better and more informed blogger, writer, and/or content creator!  If you have anything awesome to submit that others might enjoy, feel free to do so!

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