Foodie or groupie

I write and read reviews... Every once in a blue moon depending on my mood.

From anything on tripadvisor, Yelp, Amazon, Airbnb .... Anything that the ol' googs can bring up....

As of a long time ago, it came to my attention that a lot of folks are making a chunka'change writing these reviews or at least getting some perks for them. And as of lately, sometimes the reviews themselves are false filler-uppers. You know, they fill in the gap from a bad review to make it a good review to up the rating. Falsely. 

Yes, this is annoying because I cannot simply take the 4.5/5 stars at face value.... I then have to seek out the extreme bad and good reviews and really listen to see whether these are fake or planted or not. So freakin time consuming. In the end whats the point of the review if this is happening?

Soooo with Instagram consuming a chunk out of my day and food reviews being a part of it, it's sad to see that there are a lot of "foodies" out there that are becoming false filler-uppers.

I can tell because I read their comments on the pretty food they so artistically photographed - all good, all the time, er' time, all day, all night, er'night - all good, everything is good. How more neutral can you get? Well, actually it would be more neutral to say everything is ok instead of good, but then, average neutral reviews do not keep the perks from coming in do they? They also advertize these perks. They get invited to all the food events and whatever food they wish for, a company is there to give the freebie...
Honesty is overrated I guess.