Saturday, July 30, 2011

Discussion 4-Camille Koh

The internet is now a significant and expanding space for news. It is the most dynamic force in changing the way we make and consume news. Therefore, should we really trust everything that is up on the internet?

For me, I personally do not trust what I find in the web to be a hundred percent the truth. Now with the internet being so globalize, everyone and anyone could have wrote a particular information and that could only be their personal opinion. When finding information on the internet, I usually will go through different websites and sources before finalizing my thoughts on a particular topic or issue. For example, when there is a product I would like to purchase, I'll probably go to different forum sites to browse and read other people's view and comment first before purchasing the item.

Other than that, we also can't entirely believe the information posted on social networking sites, like the very famous and still expanding, Facebook. The information posted on people's profile may not entirely be the truth. Their age, birthday, where they live or even how they look like might just all be lies!

In the end, it all depends on yourself whether you choose to trust a specific source of information or not. But of course, try to be smart about making that decision as well.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with you~ we can't fully believe the information on famous sites. This kind of websites are usually made for advertising purposes only. It may contain some information but usually not reliable because the one who write on that website is not really an expert of that field.

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  2. yea, i'm agree with you. As i know last time when the news which Osama is death. Facebook has a lot of spamming about how he die something like that. But actually it is a virus or something a trick from a hacker to hack your Facebook account.

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  3. I agreed, is not every information provided by Internet are reliable. Because there are some of the people like to post everything they like and rumors. So, we can try to find out who is the author or sponsor of the page and many ways more.

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