Credibility On The Internet

I guess we’ve all come to face the big question of “how credible is this information really” when reading something on a blog or website. We’ve all had our doubts about the source, and sometimes the Photoshop abilities of the image editor.

There are so many scams and nonsense stories going around on e-mail that we’ve all built up a resistance to mails showing any medical problem, telling us that we’ve won something, or asking for our bank details.

We’ve become so used to all this, that we’re ‘programmed’ to ignore these different forms of spam. There is something like blog spam as well – especially since people started paying money for blogging about their services. I myself post paid posts, and I agree that these posts can seriously confuse readers of the writers opinion, likes and dislikes. I’ve decided to tag all my paid posts appropriately, and thus you can easily distinguish these from the non paid posts. Personally, I like reading paid posts . It gives me new ideas of how to present the content, and how to go about advertising without sounding like a Homemark shopping channel ad.

Still, when we google a topic these days, most of the results are made up of blogs. The problem with this is, blogs are very opinionated, and we can’t always ‘trust’ the content. Though some of us might find it extrememly interesting to read about others’ opinions, we can’t necessarily believe everything we read there.

I use wikipedia if I really need to know the facts about something, and find that quite helpful, but still, bloggers’ credibility is being stripped away more each day.  I could tell you that I have a pet lion, and that I ride on its back to work each day, and you might very well believe me!  We used to tell that story while living in England, and people really believed it!!  I would also probably believe a lot of myths about foreign countries if they had told me.  So somehow we have to find the truth in this maze of lies and warped images.  We have to try and figure out who’s trustworthy, and if they will stay that way. 

Then again, if you don’t want the facts, you can just enjoy reading all the make belief tales and have a merry time. 

But that’s only my opinion

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