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Originally Posted by VonDondu  The following link provides a great example of the "information" the internet has to offer: Chapter 4
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I get a great deal of information from the internet, but the vast majority of material on the internet is either unsubstantiated opinion (not a bad thing in itself if you take it for what it is) or complete and utter crap. Or parodies thereof.  |
Hehehe - actually a somewhat funny site.
But yes. Much information is written by "you or me" and so should always be taken with a grain of salt - leading back to the often spoken mantra when somebody unquestionable links something "If it is on the Internet, it must be true"
However, I think this is where CE's mention of the two different "social classes" comes into play.
The ones who knows this and questions material or the ones who simply accept it - for what ever reason (possible because it fits with opinions already, so feeling a form of validation).
Anybody who's spend time on search engines finding material will know that information found is not inheritly true, and that is the aspect which makes information-finding "difficult", because it then leads back to how to search as well, which leads back to technical (Internet-related) abilities.
However, one can find a lot of real factual information "out there", and thus I can live with the fact that there is a lot of nonfactual as well. It simply requiers one to think about it a little before using it.