Who Do You Trust?

“I read it on the internet,” a common phrase that many of us hear all too often, but do we trust what we read on the internet? Many of us come from the generation that was told don’t believe what you read on the internet, don’t site Wikipedia, and definetly don’t use websites as your main work sited page. What is there to be afraid of, legitimacy, well yes. As A Better Pencil describes, people have been questioning what they are reading since text was invented. This comes with any form of technology. As this newest technology evolves, we will find more legitimacy and fallacy within it as it grows.

We are trained to look for text that is false this does help us sort the facts from the fiction. Something that we must come to terms with is that we will always have to be on the look out for someone trying to impersonate another and so on. Consider Twitter, how many people have a “fake” account where they act like they are a celebrity or act as an alter-ego? We wouldn’t trust these as legit sources, but we know to sift them out when considering the facts.

As the internet evolves, we are able to evolve with the internet. There are now Twitter accounts that are the actual celebrity that is verified through their information. I think that more and more sites will be seeking this legitimacy in their text.