i am not trying to turn this into another one of many speculation topics, i just want to point out that if people started educating themselves about bitcoin itself and the market and how price moves instead of hanging around bitcointalk and reddit and waiting for random newbie accounts to tell them "panic this is the end" they would have been a lot more successful in their lives...
what do you think?
People are influenced by other people, no doubt, that is how peer pressure works. You are fine to have your own opinion and I won't bash you on that, and if you think bitcointalk and reddit are useless that is fine. But bitcointalk does educate people, and if you take a look around, you will see heaps of people's questions answered and them being relieved.