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Can you trust bloggers?
Posted by footiam • 10/07/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: bloggers, imagination, trust
Can you trust bloggers? Do you read their entries and believe them? Do you think some of the entries are just too colorful and appear just to be part of the imagination?
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I am not getting what are you talking about. Plz specify more-
Some bloggers write about their lives which are just too colorful. Others write about products which they claim to be wonderful. Are they really telling the truth?
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Uhhmmm...Footiam, some of us HAVE lived colourful lives.
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"All generalizations are false."-
Maybe, I should ask , can we trust all bloggers?
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lol ... there's another generalization.
frankly, the only one to believe is Lord Likely ... he always tells precisely the truth.
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I think it's important to write a bit about yourself in your blog. Qualify whether you're researching, use references for real information and if you're writing from the imagination just say so.
Basically I trust bloggers, but not every entry I read do I take to be the gospel truth.-
Thanks for the suggestion. I have never given that a thought. I can now say i suppose, that I am writing from the imagination . I have read entries in blogs, and I just say, wow, what a colorful life. Do people really live this way? Even if there are photos in the blogs, photos can lie, you know, if you know what I mean.
Finally, I do agree, not everyone will tell the truth. -
don't trust bloggers, but you can believe them.
after all, nobody can give you better advice than yourself. Listening/reading/getting in is one process, acting/givingout is another process. If you think bloggers are liars, nothing is wrong. most of them may be.. but not all..
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I think bloggers are just like all other people--some tell the truth word for word, some embellish, some lie outright, and some have a skewed perspective they believe to be the truth that doesn't match other people's experience of the same events.
I suspect, though, that with blogs it's much less important than it is in real life, since it would be a very unusual circumstance in which a reader was reliant on the veracity of information in a blog.-
Yeah, that about sums
it up for me as well.
Well said. -
I do agree. Read and forget. People around us, living with us should be given priority.
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I do agree. Read and forget. People around us, living with us should be given priority.
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I do agree. Read and forget. People around us, living with us should be given priority.
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I do agree. Read and forget. People around us, living with us should be given priority.
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Innocent until proven guilty! HA!-
Crooks always take advantage of that: Innocent until proven guilty.
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It's not a bad policy to apply the same critical thinking and analysis to blog entries, as you would to any other non-fictional medium.-
Ya. What are brains for anyway!
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I think it would depend on the blogger. You can't put them all in the same box.-
Yes, I do agree. I know where my box it. It's a good box!
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Trust no one....
Except for me and go read the latest entry at... Just kidding... Damn I am tired and bored-
Trust someone if not all! And if you are bored, come over to my beautiful world steptpg.blogspot.com ! It is supposed to entertain and stimulate the mind!
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My real life adventures are so colorful, as a live in a forest, work from home & run a decade old web site. There's rarely a dull moment in my week.
totalescape.blogspot.com/2007/07/hillbilly-off-roaders.html
But most of the blogging I read is so uninteresting & unimaginative to me, I just wanna stop searching/reading & go back to my own writing, uploading more photos - or even clean up my code.-
Mine is. Do come to Beautiful World steptpg.blogspot.com
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@totalescape
Yes, I understand where you're coming from. You seem to put a lot of effort on your blog and expect the same from the rest. But there are good ones out there that you might just encounter if you keep searching...
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Most of my blogging involves the colorful images from my imagination. But generally, my blog exists simply to amuse myself, and hopefully a few others. I rarely post anything of a serious nature.
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I think that's harmless and fun! Way to go, man!
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was i supposed to be telling the truth? oh darn.....
well sure i believe some of what i read..it's all entertainment to me.-
No strings attached!
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Well, a harmless lie wouldn't matter, would it?
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can I trust you?...or this thread?.....it's posted by a blogger...hahahaha...-
You can trust me!
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"Can you trust bloggers?" That's like asking if you can trust people. Depends on the person and blog.
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Bloggers are people, yes!
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okay okay...everyone raise their mice
we promise to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help us blog.
a new day in blogging history-
Add a little bit of white lies here and there should be fine. Otherwise, our blogs won't sell!
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The blogs that I don't trust have faces of cute girls as their profile picture. You can tell they were commercially shot and not someone's personal picture. The authors of the blogs are probably males. It's a nice scheme to draw traffic. Whatever works, I guess.-
Well some people have professional shots taken but I agree for the most part. -
I agree with you. When I see generic pictures like that it looks like the blog is just trying to make money and doesn't care about the readers -
In this case, I don't mind taken for a ride!
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Madame X nailed it. The same balance of right, wrong, bs, truth, shades of intent and meaning, etc. are true in the blogesphere as anywhere else in life.
Like in travel, wherever you are, there you are. -
I tend to trust bloggers who put personality into their blog, that usually a good sign they are for real.
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I trust the bloggers I read, a very few of them I know and a couple I have met, but otherwise I have no reason to need to trust bloggers. I'm not sending them my money. -
I'm being very careful with what I read from blogs nowadays. I think to a certain extent, how much I trust a blog also depends on how much sense it makes.
Like for example, I ever came across a blog which says Bush is a secret ally of Osama, and Osama wanted Bush to get into the administration, making a mess of it. It wasn't a tongue in cheek post but more than 10 points which he explained in details. It's just something way too hard to stomach, even as a possibility.-
Endoh I seen your image on here it stands out a lot. Im wondering what movie that is from? Or a game? It's scary as hell! Very nice though!
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miken, I can't remember honestly. I have kept this face for more than 10 years in solitary, when i started blogging again I decided to use it as my avatar since I ain't exactly a nice person. LOL!
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Sometimes you can tell the person behind the blog the way they blog, so meaning you can tell what kind of person it is. The hardiest is that some are hiding in the beauty of there colorful blog sites but deep within not really nice and not trusted. So i guess instead of reading the personality in person since were virtual reading the quality/creativity from their blog. -
I am a blogger sometimes before i blog i will ask myself if how i will write to my blog. I will write what is in my heart and mind. Nobody`s perfect we can commit mistakes but i am trying my best to write what is best. Just read my blog will know who i am in reality. What i write in my blog thats who iam. Its true some are just write because its just business but we cannot judge them because we can have mistakes. -
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When someone does not tell the truth someone will tell it for him or her. -
depends who you're talking about. If there telling you to drink the special Kool-aide I'm going to go with no, but if your talking about a blogger like darren rose, seth godin, or aaron wall then there reputation in the online an off-line world basically depends on their credibility so I'll say yes. -
We are here to get good from others, I read blogs get good from them, don't all bloggers have good stuff. Believe what you like and forget what you don't.
totaheri.blogspot.com -
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I try to do a little research for each post, although the extent of my research is small, I will credit the author of an article from which I get my information from. How truthful the information is really is in the eye of the beholder, you ultimately chose what you want to believe. You are welcome to read my blog and draw your own conclusions.
majik2903.blogspot.com -
Question everything, trust no one! -
We have to trust someone sometimes!
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I guess there is truth here.
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We have to trust the people, they are innocent until proven guilty, so we have to make our own judgment.Is there any benefit for them to tell the untruth thing?-
Having an open mind is fine but I do think some one who is guilty is guilty and needs no proof at all.
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I honestly hope nobody believes most of my ramblings, I am completely full of it!!
Imagine if readers took me seriously, and thought I was really interviewing British women's breasts, shooting moose hunters in the melon on my 1st day hunting, ordering a Jewish Master online... :o-
*gasp* YOU WEREN'T!? YOU LIED TO ME!?
Well, I was kind of hoping you had interviewed the breasts, anyway. -
It's nice to be taken seriously!
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Some embellish, some lie, some are blatantly honest - but why does it matter? I don't blog much about my personal life, so don't tag me as a liar because I say it doesn't matter.
But seriously, blogs are entertainment. Unless someone is delivering false information in an attempt to actually get something from you.. to get you to buy something or take some other action... why would it matter if they make up wild tales about their own lives? Personally there are very few blogs that I ever read that I think the authors are liars.. I guess I don't really care if the escapades they recount are factual or not. Since I wasn't there, I will never really know anyway.-
Yes, why does it matter? It is fun and a learning experience all the way.
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The real question is can you afford not to trust people? Is it really our jobs to prove or disprove another bloggers post. i believe a blog can inform,envoke change, entertain etc. Blogging may be one of the last forms of real content.-
We don't have to trust or not trust. Just read and enjoy will do!
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It is human nature to colour and dramatise posts to make them sound better. Clearly it works as people read blogs. Now whenever I read a blog I always read with a grain of salt involved. This is especially true on many of the blogs aimed at guiding you through making money blogging or selling some product. Common sense will tell you the charlottans from the legitimates. -
Can you trust bloggers? Like with your kids or what? You can trust that they give their honest opinions. Are they expert opinions? Not likely. If they were they probably wouldn't be blogging about their opinions. Unless it's someone like a news or social commentator who earns a living by giving opinions -
One should never blindly trust any source of information.
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Sound advice, globalgirl!Not even from a holy book I suppose!
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nope. my motto is, trust no one. news, commercials, books. all a bunch of lies i tell ya. the bible. if it was written by man, u shouldn't trust it. trust your family and loved ones. everything else, read for entertainment -
First believe in your self...and then you can learn to learn others..-
Sometimes, we believe to much in ourselves that we forget to believe others.
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..and that's called 'EGO'(i think so).. 'I am Always Right' syndrome. ha ha ha ha..
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The three bloggers I trust are Me, Myself and I.
And I'm not entirely sure about two of those. -
I'm usually sarcastic in nature, but I keep most of my truths secret. There's just some stuff I'd prefer to keep private. -
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NOoooooooooooooo...
maybe 1.. -
I say bloggers are like lawyers... and you can take that however you want to! lol!-
Some lawyers can be trusted.
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maybe yes, maybe no -
I'm pretty trusting, but not gullible. I tend to take people at their word most of the time. Like another poster said, I don't rely on the accuracy of info contained in blogs, so if the info is bogus, I'm not out anything. -
i'm a blogger and trust me, give me a fifty bucks and i'll spend it on blogcatalog licketty split!
(nah, that's an exaggeration, i'll spend it on sushi, which is almost the same as blogcatalog, except fishier.) -
i take everything i read on the web w/a grain of salt. but unless someone gives me a real reason not to trust them, i usually give them the benefit of the doubt. -
Bloggers are human being. They could be right or wrong. It depends on their motivations. Who knows something in the hearth, but we can can feel right or wrong because we have a hearth. -
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bloggers are not to be trusted, that is a fact -
Hmmm...I don't really trust anyone that I haven't met in person...you just don't know. It isn't a good idea, but as for the content...everything I read on the internet I take with a grain of salt. Even information published in research journals with double blind randomized controlled trials has to be scrutinized for ethics and validity.
If you believe everything you read or hear you are an idiot. Plain and simple.
Blogging is worse than real life because people can hide behind fake profiles, and they don't have to say something to your face. While I have nothing but wonderful things to say about most of the bloggers that I know...I still procede with caution while navigating the blogosphere. I know there are a lot of bad people and scammers out thered. BC does a great job at filtering the spammers out for the most part. -
@Footiam
I am a professional with a license to uphold which is why I do not have Adsense. There are bloggers here who are in the same boat. I would be cautious about accepting health tips from those who are getting it from magazines and other sources.
Check my blog. Terima Kaseh! You might find some themes and words that resonate - like qigong. Which state are you from? Johor, Selangor or Perak?-
Perak!
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Well, do you trust newspapers?
I actually don't.
Quite a few blogs give you a more accurate information than newspapers.
Especially in the US...
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Good answer farangrakthai
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I buy that!
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I hope I can earn my readers' trust by blogging with integrity. When I hit that 'publish' button I always know I'm putting out my best work - otherwise, I don't hit it. That's my philosophy.
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Even though I read most of the reply's before realizing how old it was, I will conintue to perpetrate the crime... (necro-posting)....
Honesty is very important to me. I mean for me as an individual. Do what you want and have your fun, suit your blogging purpose. That's your perogative. But what I write will only ever be truth. In fact, it was the ability to be straight up and truthful, to say things that aren't always easy to say or talk about otherwise that attracted me to blogging. There is also an element (or illusion) ? ) that my life has been interesting in it's own way and continues to be. I did think it would be something 'different' to share. But overall, I started out doing an annonymous blog so I could be as truthful as I wanted, lol. But it seems no matter what you do, in some way or other if you have to hide who you are, well that's dishonest in a way too. I'm not annonymous anymore so now I just rein in my truth. If I can't blog with out filling in the blanks to so much an extent that it becomes half made up in order to protect the topic- I will find something else to write about.
Long story short, my purpose for blogging IS truth. (but not to hurt people)
Though my second blog is very new, you can probably still tell it's truthful because my life isn't exactly 'colorful', lol. So you can choose to beleive me on either account, lol.-
It takes a lot to be completely honest. That's great.
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Of course not!
Bloggers are full of lies!
They should all be hung up by their tongues!
Death to bloggers! -
It takes a lot to be completely honest. The bloggers earn money (some of them quite a bit of it) and marketers get their products in front of customers and get a personal recommendation from a trusted source to boot. Of course tongues. -
Instead of questioning if other people's lives are more colorful than you believe them to be...maybe you should pay more attention to the color in your own life. -
Shoot, I wouldn't trust the whole lot of em, and I am one... (sarcasm font)
I mean, obviously anyone can just type something and put it up without double-checking and whatnot, but.. I think it's obvious after a few reads which bloggers do their homework and which ones don't.
www.newsday.today.com/ -
I don't trust everything I see published in a blog as being accurate any more than I trust everything I read in newspapers as being accurate. I have noticed that the blogosphere is suddenly full of pseudo-experts, who think they are going to make a million from their blogs, when they really don't have anything new or original going on in them at all. Many are simply reblogging what the A list and B list bloggers present and doing so in poor English. I have also noticed an dramatic increase in the number of splogs and spam blogs too.
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The best thing about blogging is anyone can be published.
the worst thing about blogging is that anyone can published.-
The best thing is also anyone can choose to read or not to read, to believe or not to believe!
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How big is Internet actually?
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Very big! so, I suppose there ought to be some bad apples out there!
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I remember a couple years ago on flickr, there was this well known and respected photographer. Then next she got cancer and was dying, and everyone felt sorry for her, sending her cards and flowers. She disapeared mysteriously and next her sister appeared on the scene, saying her sister had died. People were so sucked into the whole story even writing and ringing up the people involved IRL and making donations!. Turns out it was all one big scam !! No one had died, and in the end there were no two sisters involved, just 'one' woman that had schemed up the whole thing !!! Grrrrr !
However not everyone is scammmy about their lives on the net. I had a huge crisis a few years back, and spoke openly about it on the net (flickr), and a lot people did help me at the time. I have since paid back their help by forwarding on it to others in need. So for all they known I could have been a fake too, but they trusted what I was saying was the truth.
It's just a pity the scammers and people that lie about stuff, make it bad for us genuine people on the net.(sorry to go slightly off topic but the subject made me think about all of this) -
Bloggers are the seediest, most deviant and dangerous, most criminally insane people I know. But you can trust them. -
im a blogger, but I try to be honest. we should worder ourselves whether we are a trustful person or not, before asking others whether they are trustfull or not.
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I am honest!
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they can be imagination, pure fiction -
We can be too!
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hurmm my answer would be "Maybe"
It really depends on how and wha that person writes ....if it is a make believe then mostly no but it's something honest and funny maybe yes
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