Objectives of the posted information are difference for the publishers. The positive users post the information for experience, knowledge, emotion sharing or asking questions. However, everything have negative even in the virtual world.
Quality problem
I have read a blog from Mr. Shang Yi which content was talking about the online forum culture. He mentioned people have hypocritical behaviors because of the forum features. A motivation system is used in many forums for encourage the users to create new posts or follow the posts. Most of the posts are meaningless, which is a single word, an emotion icon or fake news, only for request the higher permissions. In my experience, this culture is only in the Asia forum but not in the Western. The replies of Western forums are at least one complete statement but not just ‘推’ (sound ‘Tui’in Chinese) in the Asia’s forums. The better polite reply of them also included the appellation of others. I think the bad culture can be improved by educations. Therefore, the social or computer courses should add some related topic to teach the good behaviors.
Credibility problem
Some people may think that social communication websites as Facebook are the tools. They use these tools for writing the fake stories or some touching statements to request sympathy from others, even kids or adults. Sometimes they will belittle others to make themselves look important. For this type of content, I totally believe that we need to have the critical thinking to identify the credibility. Although the contents may not be true, I also understand humans need to vent their emotions. Therefore, I don’t think they are totally unacceptable. However, be a smart Internet user when facing the similar information, I think we don’t need to ‘support’, ‘like’ or ‘+’ them. The thing we can do is to suggest them to get helps from the experts because they are the persons who can solve the problems for them but not your ‘support’.
I do agree that quality and credibility are very big problems in blogging. Netizens are easily being emotionally aroused. They are sensitive to the internet updates and they will believe them without double checking the sources. Thus, critical thinking is of utmost importance in this sense. From my observation, netizens are increasingly cautious in having critical views on posts. For example, they will track previous posting record of a particular netizen to examine if he/she is telling truth or making up stories. This act may help raise the overall quality of blog posts.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the quality problem of new media writing.
The reason why meaningless post occurs, I think, is because the system of forum. The forum itself prefer a high rate and response rate for attracting more netizens to join their network, resulting in the function which allow the poster to require readers to reply for reading the hidden session in post. This leads to the phenomenon of "推" in most of the forum.
If this logic goes right, I think this might not happen in Asia only, but all over the world. How do you think?
Thank you Noc, you get the exception case. Yes, you are right. Some posts are used hidden function and lead people reply the non-meaningful messages but not for all. I have also seem the same replies in the posts without hidden session. That’s why some forums have already added the reply filter for checking the non-meaningful replies. However, the number of similar replies in Western forums I saw is lower than Asia’s. Their message would like “oh, I would like to read the content.”. Therefore, I think it is the culture difference and related to explain the reason of Asia people like to speak single word in daily life.
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