A report came out yesterday suggesting that no one trusts bloggers.

Frankly, that's one of the most refreshing things I've read in a while. If people trusted someone just because they rambled on about something on the web using a free blogging platform that would be bad; very very bad.

The report goes on to state that people have a lot of trust of people that they know who they define as "people like myself."

However, this makes me wonder, "What happens when your friends have a blog?" If your friends read your blog and trusts your opinion on subjects that they know you know something about, will they suddenly distrust your opinion just because you contributed it to a blog? Of course not. You're the same person, right?

I can only assume that the study mentioned above is asking what people think of random generic bloggers since no one would discount the opinions of people they know who blog.

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