Bigger Doesn’t Mean Better
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McDonalds is the biggest fast food restaurant out there. They serve 47 million customers daily! But, does this popularity make them a good restaurant? It might taste good to some of us, but is it good for us? Is it healthy?
Do you think McDonalds cares if they lose a few hundred customers? Do you think they’ll try to improve? Do you think they’ll start using real meat? Do you think they’ll stop serving food that’s gonna really mess you up?
TechCrunch… the web’s McDonalds? 1327K subscribers. Lot of readers, huh? Quality content? Not so much. Quantity of content? More than quality. Why do people read TechCrunch? Why do you people still eat at McDonalds? Is it because we tend to think that just because its big ‘n popular, it must be good?
What if you don’t want that (branded) crap? What if you want something that’s worth eating? What if you want something nice and simple? What if you want the real deal? Where do you go? Well the answer is simple. Go to a local restaurants.
Small local restaurants are like hidden gems. Its in your city, but you never knew it existed. Its got great food, but you never heard a buzz about it. You gotta work a bit to find it, but its worth the effort. Once you’ve had a meal there you’ll get hooked on it.
What’s my point? Next time when you stumble across a blog don’t judge it by the number of subscribers it has or a site by the number of users/visitors it has. Look around and see if its any good. Don’t jump off a building just because everyone’s doing it.
(I just hated how bloggers were showing off their Feedburner chicklet. You can fake it. I can fake it without anyone knowing I faked it. I just hated how people were judging blog’s by this fake number. I had to do something.)
18 November 2008 at 3:58 am
I never look at how many subscribers a blog has. I don’t care. It’s more important that I like whatever I can read at that blog.
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18 November 2008 at 5:54 am
You’re right. TechCrunch is big, yes, but it’s lacking something. In fact, I think it’s just boring.
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19 November 2008 at 8:42 am
Still the trick works and a lot fall for it.
The question is how can you fight it?
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th13rteen Reply:
November 19th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Well if doctors and researchers prove that McDonalds is bad for you and that it will kill you eventually then a lot of us will stop eating it. And a lot of us actually did stop eating.
So, I guess we would need to make the big fish look bad rather than making us look better. A lot like the Mac vs PC ads.
You have anything in mind?
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23 November 2008 at 6:26 pm
I don’t care about a site’s “popularity.” I subscribe to the stuff that I like. Coincidentally, most of what I do subscribe to probably wouldn’t fall into the “popular” category. But, whatever.
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