In todays’ world, jumping on the bandwagon seems to be one of the effective ways to move forward. Many do anything out there in order to get readers. Many keep talking about wanting to help their readers, yet such people usually do nothing outside of their blogs or unless you comment or unless they can benefit from it.

On top of that, if you ever disagree or show other side of the story, you are considered a critic and not a reader anymore. You are considered and outcast, and posts are written in order to show what kind of an enemy you are. So, how can you know why you get dumped so easily in the end, when all this time you were told by the blogger that they were in a reader-blogger relationship with you? One way to realize such a fake relationship between you and a blogger or anyone who claims to appreciate you is to be aware of fake appreciation.

Fake appreciation can come from copying others

You might see people using the same comment signature that you use, people that have seen your signature and started using it after they saw yours. You might see someone using the exact same header as yours, after being a user on your site for a while. I see several people use my writing, commenting and other styles as their own, after they have seen mine. You might even notice someone doing the same things as you, such as getting on social networking sites, and doing the exact things you do on those sites.

So what is the problem with all of these? There is no obvious problem with the scenarios described. The problem happens when these people come close only to get something, and when they mimic something from you, they keep a safe distance, never acknowledging that they took or learned something from you. Many times, such copiers are showing fake appreciation.

So 2 of the problems are:

1. Copying something from someone else and then claiming it to be our own
2. Copying or using something with the sole intention of benefiting by faking appreciation

How can you ever spot fake appreciation?

“Thank you for your comment. ” If I wrote that in a response comment to you, how would you ever know I meant what I am saying? I could be having the worst day of my life, cursing out at the monitor even, and blaming you for making me post a comment in response to your comment. Even then, one can simply write “Thank you for your comment” because that someone has noticed someone else doing it honestly for years. How can you ever spot such fake appreciation, let alone deal with such bloggers? First thing to do in the quest to spot fake appreciation, if you value such a quest, is to realize whether or not you care about the differences between real and fake appreciation in the online world.

Fake appreciation implies that a blogger thinks you are stupid.

For me, appreciation has to be real, literally. For many people, seeing fake appreciation online is a waste of time and an insult, for the person faking the appreciation thinks that anyone who reads it is stupid enough to believe that the appreciation in real. We already have fake appreciation in the offline world. Let us see if we can observe similar fake appreciation traits in the online world.

What do you think? Have you noticed anything fake recently? Do you care whether or not a blogger means what she/he says when showing appreciation?

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