Thursday, April 15, 2010

Truth, Lies and the Internet

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? For me, the answer is no. For my opinion, People shouldn't believe everything they read--especially, it seems, on the Internet. Even Wikipedia is not that reliable, as everyone stand a chance to modify the information.
"Wikipedia articles sometimes descend into a free-for-all, and the information may be biased or inaccurate."- Jimpkarpen.

Sometimes, the information we found in the internet can be either a story made by anyone in order to get famous, to fool the others, etc... "Professional proved that..." was always been used without giving any information such as who is that, what experiment, where, when? Some may look logical but after some time, some started to play with these so called "professional article", for some funny example, eat Taiwan "Zhang Hua" meat ball can strengthen sexual ability, French Kiss can cause pregnancy...and those professional just hide aside and watch the audience reaction.
Even for those "Official" Internet source can be the media created in order to perform a political influence or a religion influence in order to get the audience in control, decide a common dream or ideal for everyone, just like the "American dream", or create a stereotype.

The personality in the internet can be lie too, Many user use other's photo as the profile to make friend with others and lied to their profile information too.

3 comments:

  1. It seems like fake articles in internet is more than those true one in this days...

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  2. because of social media development

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  3. even wikipedia is not so reliable,but still a lot people using it.. we just need to filter it what we takes before we use it..

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