Yelp!

This was really difficult for me.  I am currently taking “Journalism and Law” where we’ve spent part of the semester talking about how you can be sued for libel depending on how you write a restaurant review.  I wrote one semi-negative review for the Monkey Bar and I was trying to be very cautious about how I worded it so that it was clearly all my own opinion.

The other review that I wrote was for Panera Bread in Hadley.  Even though my review was positive, I still had trouble writing it because I felt like I had to address the negative review someone posted and defend my opinion.

As far as reading other reviews, I thought most of them were dead on.  I only looked at a small selection of restaurants in the Amherst area though.  Most of the reviews I saw were serious and seemed to be well-though out, however, I also found a few funny ones like this review for D.P. Dough:

Andrea C.

and iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii eeeee iiiiii will always love you

The only thing that surprised me was that McDonald’s had four stars.  It only had one review and the person’s reasoning for the high rating was because the drive-through is open 24/7.  I expected McDonald’s to have a low rating because the food is so bad for you.

The last thing that I want to mention about my Yelp experience is that I really liked the “useful,” “funny,” and “cool” buttons.  I just found it amusing that you could consider a review cool.

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