Journal 7

Journal 7

Power bloggers

     I really love visiting blogs for obtaining useful information. I love reading others' thoughts, opinions, interest, favor, etc. When I prepare presentations and do homeworks, at first I started to search others' blogs to get great point of views (perspects of others). Getting various people's thoughts is not easy, but thanks to blogs, we can easily get great infornatin with ease. Also before I purchase something on online (on the internet), at first I usually watch blogs and comments about products what I want to buy. 

     I usually trust the opinions of bloggers because they, the bloggers, are also normal people like us, so I love their honest opinions about products, movies, acts, etc. But many problems are arising nowadays. Some companies use the point that consumers usually tust bloggers, so they hire some bloggers to promote their things. I think that is also a great advertisement, but the problem is that the bloggers can't honestly express their thoughts about products because they get money and benefits from them. So nowadays, consumers started to doubt about their opinions. And one of other problems is that some bloggers have attempted to avoid paying taxes. So governments in most countries are being annoyed about these problems. Some governments gave a certain amount of penalty for the dark behaviors to some bloggers, but the problems are happening until now. 

     Are there any good ideas for protecting consumers from the false informations, and for blocking the violation? I think that to protect consumers from the false information, the blogs should have a mark to indicate that the blogs get money from companies as a reward of promoting their products on their blogs. I think that this mark would be useful to consumers. And for the bloggers who attempted to avoid paying taxes shoud get a punishment that they can't operate any blogs for ten years and an amount of penalty.

     All thing has a bright side and a dark side. If we use blogs with good reasons, those would be a great way to share information each other, but if we use those with bad purpose, those would make victims, and splatter social order of our nation. Thank you for your consideration and reading.