Comments on: Bloggers and the Internet gang epidemic

By: Rebellious Arab Girl Â® » Only Arabs would start such silliness.

Rebellious Arab Girl Â® » Only Arabs would start such silliness. — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:15:59 +0000

[...] makes my post a couple of days ago so true about “Bloggers and the Internet gang epidemic.” Recent [...]

By: imad

imad — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:44:49 +0000

Mona, I would not take this personally. Many of these bloggers live in the same geographical area and know each other personally, thats why they seem to agree with each other or comment on each others comments. I personally enjoy reading many of the blogs and I once in a while make a comment or two but for most part I like reading about whats happening back home.

By: mr.anonymous

mr.anonymous — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:36:37 +0000

You know reading your post about these gangs,they sound to me like the mmo games guilds and societies, now all they need is the graphics and virtual weapons on the blogs to fully implement their abusive strategies.

Lodispoto opened my eyes on the goals of these ppl,I guess they do serve a hidden goal to make certain websites delusional for advertisers and investors.

By: Mona

Mona — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:19:10 +0000

I agree with you. The sites you are thinking may not be the same ones that I have in mind, but same problem everywhere.

Also, I get many people emailing me asking me to make them site templates and they will pay. So I email back asking what exactly are they looking for? Exact project detail. They never answer back. Oh well. Too many weirdos.

By: Michael Lodispoto

Michael Lodispoto — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:28:35 +0000

Great article and so so true. I’m going to make a post about my own experiences in this topic as I think I can add quite a bit. For instance did you know that most bloggers are not even real. No joke, there are many ‘groups’ and even companies out there that are the supposedly personal blogs. I can name names here but will not. Why blow up their spot. What you do though to find out is just try to contact them even for work in their own fields.

As an example I have a major project that I am having hundreds of bloggers write about for a new site. There are now a few dozen SEO ( search engine optimization people) that have supposed prices for services but when you contact them, they will not answer. No phone numbers, nothing. You can see this all over the place with a social sites like Digg, Sphinn, my own earthfrisk.com and so on. . Check out the posts then try to contact some of the social media people on it.

I had one character tell me that he has a $500 consultation fee ( this without me even telling him the name of the project) and when I said ok for one hour of speaking, never heard from him again! Can you imagine a real person throwing away $500 for a one hour chat to just advise someone?

I have narrowed down 3 groups of people on Social Media sites, with a very great number of multiple personalities.

Look at their sites and many spew out the same kind of comments and the like that you speak of here.

It’s like a chorus pushing their own agenda – which is merely to tell each other how great they are so an advertiser like myself might come to their site and see all of the comments and think – they must be big.

This is what it boils down to – an old saying that goes ” You have to fake it until you make it” Which is BS to me!

Believe almost nothing of what you read on the internet.