Over the last few years, survival and preparedness blogs have sprouted up all over the Internet. It seems everywhere you look, there are so called ‘survival experts’ everywhere you look. I’ve read a good number of these blogs and I have a warning for those of you who would run out and take advice from perfect strangers. Beware of what you read on a preparedness blog!
The problem with some of these so called experts is that they are actually Internet marketers instead of for real survival experts. Their only experience with survival situations is what they read on other blogs. I doubt many have even been outside of the city, yet they give out advice to unsuspecting readers so that these readers will buy their products in return.
Before taking any survival bloggers advice, do your research to see what kind of real world experience they have. Real survival bloggers like M.D. Creekmore and Jim Rawles are the real thing. That doesn’t mean they’re the only ones you need to read, but you need to know that the person you’re taking advice from has the nearly the same type of experiences that these two bloggers have. Even though both have different beliefs and live totally different ways, both are living the survivalist lifestyle and know what they’re talking about.
Any good blogger should be able to provide proof that they are who they say they are. Finding good advice on serious manners such as survival is hard enough as it is. It shouldn’t be made harder by a bunch of marketers trying to make a buck out of consumers who are looking to prepare their self for an emergency.
If the blogger’s blog you’re reading is full of advertisements and reviews that seem fake, then chances are you’re reading a blog by an internet marketer rather than a real person who is living a survival lifestyle.
