Happy Thanksgiving to you too!

I do see where you are coming from. However, I guess that’s where we draw the line both in the virtual world and the real world. How do we find people we know we can trust? How do we know someone’s advice is worth taking? This is why relationships matter. If you and me have known each other for couple years would I sell out and feed you crap cheese? Trust me I wouldn’t. I probably would take money from that company and feed it to my wife’s friends who stops by every night cause my relationship with her isn’t something that would matter to me in the long run. Where as you, in this case who I know for a while, I certainly wouldn’t feed you the crap cheese.

Another thing, this is one of the reason why there is huge “trust issue” on the internet. There is a reason why many people would rather go read twitip and take advice from that blog on Twitter than anywhere else. The reason – cause Darren is a trusted source and people believe and know that even if he has a vested interest in selling something on his site, he wouldn’t just “sell out.”

That’s just my 2 cents though. And I am very thankful to you for pointing it out. There certainly is different sides to it and it certainly is fun being on opposite ends at times cause it gives you much more insight and perspective into a topic when there is disagreement.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I think advertising is fine and there are ways for advertising to evolve to be part of social media – but I don’t like the idea of sponsored conversation.

But I did read the whole post.

What struck me: “You just have to learn to differentiate between spammers and people who stand behind their messages.”

How?

What if the beer company that offered to buy my friend the beer was a crappy beer company. What if their beer tasted like crap. But because they were paying my friend – he recommended it to me.

What if it wasn’t Kraft cheese – it was “Crap Cheese.”

Sure you say “But I won’t back that up, because it’s not my message.” But you have a vested interest in serving me crap cheese now – cause they are paying you.

The second you take the money I don’t know if you are serving me “Kraft Cheese” because you were going to buy it anyway – or selling me “crap cheese” that you are plugging to me so you can get paid.

Worse than not knowing if the beer/cheese is really good or bad (in the end I can make up my own mind) I fear I’ve lost the trust between me and a friend.

I can understand where you are coming from – just want to put out the other side.

Best
David