▶ Your Answer : Some people might believe that when they consider their purchase, recommendation from friends or information from magazines are much better than reviews from online communities. However, I go against with this opinion because I believe that communities online made it possible to take many people’s opinion in consideration and saving time. First of all, the group made in online have a great amount of various people’s opinion. To be specific, many people upload their thoughts and reviews online by using objective evaluation such as using five stars to write the review and write their own opinion on the online community on the review page. To take my personal experience as an example, I wanted to purchase a black shinny bag for my best friend’s birthday present. I asked some of my other friends to recommend the black bag, but there was a limitation because I only have few friends. So, I tried to find an information on a magazine, but I had difficulty to find the exact information because there was too many information, even the bags that were not related to my consideration. Consequently, I browsed reviews from online communities and found a black bag with shinny texture that had lots of good reviews from lots of people. I thought that this manner was the most reliable one among the three because there were over hundreds of people that was evaluating the price, texture, color, and practical aspect of the bag. It is much better to listen to many people’s review and decide what to buy. Secondly, finding reviews from online communities are the most time saving method among the three. It goes without saying that browsing the items by shortening the extant of what people find are the fastest way to find the exact item that they are searching for. To be descriptive, the magazines are really difficult to search the item that we’re finding because there are so many pages to skim through and even irrelevant information are included in the pages, which is a waste of time. Also, recommendation from friends are not efficient in the aspect of time because it is difficult to gain many people’s opinion by texting or calling them at a short period of time. However, reviews from online communities are time saving. I went through this process yesterday, when I tried to buy a shoe from online shopping mall. I searched the reviews from online and gathered a huge amount of information in a short period of time by browsing it. I entered “Red, convenient, cheap, flat shoe” at a browser and found abundant reviews of the item. To sum up, buying items by reviewing the online communities’ opinion is the best way to consider a purchase. It is because the reviews from the internet gives the chance to hear many people’s opinion and save time. |