Fake Appreciation.... -

How many friends do you have that you know only from the online world? Now, how many times have your online friends acted like your offline friends, in terms of both interacting with you when they do not need something and interacting with you only when they need something?

For the past few days, I have been getting a lot of Facebook friend add requests. I like adding and interacting with people, so I add a lot of people. However, as time passes, I also observe people and find out which people simply wanted to add me to build their contact list, and which people simply wanted to add me in order to communicate with me in any manner.

Same is the case with online people that we meet through instant messengers and different blogs. People come close, say they are your friends, ask for advice and get advice or simply pass time, and then they immediately pull away. Then, at the same time, they keep telling everyone else about how much they appreciate friendship.

How many A-list bloggers you know that communicate with you on an almost daily basis simply to keep in touch? I can count 6 right now. How many A-list bloggers do you know who tell others on their blogs that they appreciate people, that they want to help others, that they value readers, and blah blah blah, yet these people only interact with others when it is beneficial for themselves? I can count 7 right now. It seems everyone is calling themselves a blogging professional, or a professional blogger, and yet most of them are actually professional illusionists.

I have been blogging for almost a decade, and most of the people I know who have been blogging even longer than me or better than me in one form or another do not call themselves blogging professionals. But of course, few whom even some time I do not like their stuffs I too do appreciate , simply to keep them happy, but not henceforth, you may bravely say I am wrong and I don't know the art of writing but I do not need fake appreciation please...

My question is : What would you do if you saw an online person who is faking appreciation and friendship in order to manipulate others? Would you point it our privately? Would you point it out publicly if they do not listen? How can you change trends or things if you do not expose them openly and work on them?

I already know what needs to be done. How about you?