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About 1-2 weeks ago, I posted a 3 part series called, “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” and it seemed like quite a hit to my visitors and subscribers. I even received a small spike in traffic from many social bookmarking sites, which included StumbleUpon and Digg. It may seem like I didn’t get much controversy around the post due to my comment count, but never let that fool you Anyways, instead of having it as a 3 part series, I’ve decided to have this post wrap it all up. I’m sure some of my readers can’t wait any longer since I took so long on this post, but it’s all below.

Rumors Kill

Yes, I know that a huge majority of you spread some sort of rumor either on the net or in person. I agree that spreading rumors may be fun, but did you know that rumors kill? There are so many blogs in the blogosphere today that it isn’t just one group where all of us get together to share some tips & advice, but instead we all have our own “niches” to stay at. Of course we bloggers do catch up with other blogs that have different niches, but we seem to bring up thoughts in our minds about them, which results in killer controversial rumors.

For Example:

During school year, I hung out with my own crowd of friends that just sits around at lunch and goes home right after school to play computer games. My friends and I had nothing to do with the “popular” kids in the school, but we surely wanted to become them in one way or another. Because this is simply a task that we could only dream about (as kids of course), we resulted in talking to ourselves and spreading rumors. Well, my friends and I didn’t know what was true, but we still talked shit. Who did we talk shit about? The popular kids of course.

Take my example and picture bloggers having the same problem. We tend to spread rumors because of some sort of jealousy, but don’t realize that we may be wrong. I know that E-mail RSS feed is an important add-on to a blog and usually this is where rumors hit. A lot of lower bloggers are using the black hat technique of subscribing to theirselves via e-mail rss to gain high feed readership counts. With a little research, I was able to find out which blogs are sneaking this in, but we can’t always depend on it.

Do Not Assume

This brings us to the point of “ASSUMING” things. If you guys went through college with some English professors, you probably have heard of the term “ASSUME” being used in a way that some of us may still not know of.

ASSUME: ASS = U + ME

If you see from above, you will realize that “ASSUME” makes an ass out of you and me. Assuming things is always wrong no matter what some of us may think. I totally admit that I assume things to a very high extent and I end up being a dumbass when my wife, Michelle, proves me wrong Assuming things go for everyone even when we least expect it.

For Example:

Angelina Jolie, the Tomb Raider chiq ;), walks on the red carpet with with skimpy tight dress. What she doesn’t know is that her dress makes her stomach look big, but the paparazzi is just going crazy over the snapshots without second thoughts. Most of the time these snapshots would be published in a magazine or newspaper the same night and will be on the stores/stands the next day. When the newspapers/magazines are purchased, there will be small and different snipplets for the snapshots of Angelina. These snipplets will go anymore from “Jolie gains some weight due to her upcoming movie” to “Angelina is expecting a baby in a couple months”.

As you can see from my example, people assume things no matter what. These assumptions aren’t even correct, but it brings me back to the point of “Rumors Kill” because rumors are spread with assumptions.

Many of us smaller bloggers, including myself, judge people differently because of their success, because of their content, or almost anything. I’m almost positive that you guys probably think that Mr. John Chow is a stuck-up ass that is making so much money and bragging about it. Well I admit that I have that in my mind, but oooops!!!!! We’re assuming things again because most of us haven’t talked to John personally, am I correct?

Make Friends, Not Enemies

This topic is the most important one if you wish to make some sort of success through blogging. Now I’m not talking about making money through other 3^rd party affiliate programs or sites similar to that. I’m talking about pure blogosphere here.

I’m sure all of us bloggers wish to put some sort of dent on the net because we wish to be remembered as a SOMEONE and not a NO ONE.

For Example: I’m a daily reader of John Chow’s infamous blog and it was pretty interesting to me. As time went on, I noticed that his posts have no value at all and I start getting bored, but I don’t want to unsubscribe to his blog because…well, he’s “John Chow”. Reading it for another few months, I notice that his blog is getting worse and worse and I can’t take it anymore. The result of that is I make a post about him like the Bloggin’ Bitch one or include small snippets of how evil this man is.

Of course I’m not the only one that likes to slam others because Slam Blogger loves to make these types of posts to stir up some type of controversy. Some of you might say that controversy is good because it brings in traffic, but that doesn’t always happen. You might be lucky the first couple of times and get away with slamming others, but some “high-end” bloggers might dislike it and in return, you are their ENEMY.

The End

What is the point of my 2 part series? Part 1 describes how a blogger should listen to his/her viewers, while Part 2 describes how a blogger should keep thoughts to him/her to play it on the safe side. I’m curious on what you guys have to say about this?

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