A big question is how truthful are people being on their blogs. Are they truly representing themselves? Is this person putting their truthful opinions about this product? According to the article "How will Facebook change politics," political messages used to talk down to people. Now, people are blogging about politics. I think this goes for anything, not just politics. When companies used to sell products, some of the main ways they found out how they were doing were by sales and if a person decided to give feedback about the products. Not much to go on!!!
However, today you can blog about whatever you want. Blogs were started as a way for a person to put down their thoughts about absolutely anything. I think people are more likely to write what they think than make up something, even though there are those who do make everything up. In the example of companies, they can check out these blogs or even have their own blogs for people to put comments on how they are doing or how they like their products. It's easier and faster, so why not?
"Are political blogs a social network in themselves? I would say so (Sunny)." I think any kind of network that allows people to write comments about their opinions is a social network to some extent. I mean we are writing blog posts because we have to for a class, but wouldn't you say you are putting your truthful opinions into what you are writing?
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Although I do not necessarily agree with the fact that people are to some extent being truthful in their blogs, I can see where you are coming from. People blog about absolutely anything and the validity of the blog depends on the reader because no one but the blogger will ever know if what they had just written was truthful or full of it. That is why I believe that a blog only represents a person to a certain extent and only if they want it to. In terms of companies, people blog about products to tell other people how their experience went and they can just have a defective product and be untruthful as well or just be anti-(product). The fact of the matter is that blogs are not a fair representation of a person and should not be used that way.
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