
|Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why?|(from mmls)
Do you believe everything the internet has to say?
My answer is? uh.... | Depends |
With search engines like Google , Yahoo,and the ever popular facts site :Wikipedia.Most people nowadays tend to turn to them whenever or wherever an individual faces a problem. So, when do i believe? and when do i don't believe?
Take for example. Your searching for facts about a related historical place, the results in almost any site suggested is most likely going to be the same.WHY? because its already happened, and most people agree on how it happened/most people know how it happened.Or if you stumble upon a word that you do not understand. Where do u turn to ? Search engines 90% and people around you 10%. In that given situation. yes i do believe what the search results on definition given.
What if its something that happened recently?something "in"? Those gosips about celebrities? News say he/she had an affair with someone else? The next that that he/she comes denying everything what the News had said. So who do you gonna believe? Or somewhere someone claims to have sighted an UFO and has proof of a video on the internet(Youtube), so? To be believe or not to believe?
Now lets refer to the comic strip above(top),the general idea is"no, do not believe the internet" But lets view this in a more local point of view.Take for example that Nationalnews.com/ site is thestar.com.my/(a famous local newspaper distributor). We as Malaysian know this brand,heard of it, use of it. so the trust level is pretty high. If a foreigner who never heard of it,seen of it will surely doubt its published news. So the comic strip's message is " You cant trust everything that is publish on the internet"and my personal message is " You can trust certain things on that is publish on the internet"
So, how to believe and trust on certain things? Seeing is believing / The truth is out there(from the hit series X-files)
Thanks for viewing.
note| you have the right to believe or not to believe about this post.

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