Spam makes it harder for the good stuff to shine

Spam is just a bad thing. We all hate it. The problem I’m finding lately is that it’s also making good things appear to be more questionable.

“Why did you write about that?”

A while back, I shared on my Facebook about some great new charging cables we bought for our devices around the house. They weren’t cheap, but they did an excellent job and I wanted to tell my friends about these great cables.

I had some good discussions, but one response was:

Are you writing reviews for free stuff? I used to do that then amazon caught me and busted me lol

She assumed that I talked about these cords because I was benefiting from it, which wasn’t the case. I can see where she was coming from — it’s hard to trust anyone’s review of most anything because of affiliate programs and tracking links. You always need to wonder what the motive is behind someone talking about a product, which is very unfortunate. I just wanted to tell people about some great cables that I found, but it was hard for some people to trust my motives.

Seriously, open my video

A few months back, I used the Dubb service to send some quick videos to the people on my membership committee for the Kennesaw Business…