Does what you read on a forum influence your decisions?

[RobWilliams]

Just wondering if what you read on any forums/social networks etc influence your decisions?
Would constantly being told a particular place was bad for example, make you change your mind about moving there? I've read about people wondering if they should emigrate now as they've read so many posts about people returning to the UK (for example) and how bad the intended destination country is. Is is a dangerous situation when life changing decisions can seemingly be influenced by perception created by a group of posters.
Conversely, would reading so many posts about how great the UK is and the constant highlighting of things that are great about the UK start to gnaw a way at you little by little and make you doubt/question your decision to emigrate?
Personally, I can't envisage moving back to the UK, but the constant chip,chip,chip has maybe put the ever so slightest, almost infinitesimal question mark in my head.

[Aldo]

For me me personally, nothing would have stopped me from migrating to Australia. I remember not long before going I was working with a painter and decorator here who had just returned and was saying i was crazy to go and he predicted i would also be back within the year (i lasted 18 months). I completely dismissed his comments and anyone else's whether online or real life, I was going to live in Australia and nothing anyone could say would stop me.

[Ktee]

Personally, yes I think it does. I remember when we were looking at moving over, everyone kept saying how wonderful Mornington and Mt Martha were and that everyone moved there, I had never even heard of these places but knew that when we arrived that is where I wanted to live.
I also agree that with all the UK threads on a particular forum it has made me consider going back for a holiday which is something I wouldn't have before, who knows, maybe I am easily led lol.

[Cranky Pants]

Don;t really pay much attention to what people think.I like to make up my own mind.