There’s no one you can really trust than yourself. Don’t believe in everything you see or hear or read. Even dictionaries have misspelled words. Fact books have their own flaws. And Wikipedia.org’s contents are not 100% correct. I should have considered these things prior to reading posts in a particular blog. If I were a lawyer and hadn’t read the about page, I might have already sued the owner of this blog.
Lawyer? Sue? What? What blog am I talking about here? GoodTimesManila.com I was browsing for some top blogs at topblogs.com.ph (only for filipino bloggers) under humor category then I came across this Good Times Manila. I thought the blog was about the “fun” of living in Manila, the good times of staying there, some sort of a news blog about the daily happenings in the city. Or so I thought. The blog’s contents are mostly about showbiz and political personalities in the Philippines. The posts are well-written just like the usual news. The approach is very realistic. Once you have read a story, you’ll feel that you aren’t anymore up-to-date. You may begin asking yourself, “Why didn’t I know about it? Why didn’t I hear everyone else talking about this thing?” and that is even if you always watch TV, listen to the radio or read periodicals. One of the posts (Jobert Sucaldito hospitalized after accident with cucumber) was actually sent to the whole office via outlook. Some agents (employees of a call center) laughed about the news. Others wondered why they never saw it on TV. And I got a question mark on my forehead. Only until earlier that I realized what it really was all about.
GTM’s concept is this: don’t trust everything you see on the Internet. This is also similar to TheOnion.com (which I was also fooled through a message sent via email). In other words, the author writes something about a real person and the write-up didn’t necessarily happen but a bogus and funny one. One word to best describe this: goodtiming. For most of his readers and visitors and for me, this is a brilliant idea. For others, this is screwing. For the remaining few, this means a “war.”
The less you know about me, the better for both our peace of mind.
