Too Easy

Creating this blog was almost too easy. It’s amazing how all you need is five minutes of your time to click a few things and fill in a few blanks to essentially post anything you want. Anyone with minor social networking experience would have found this process just as simple as I did.

 If you think about it, it was not all that long ago that people were getting all of their news from either the newspaper or television. Now people are getting their news from online blogs, journals, articles and social networking sites. This leads one to beg the question, how reliable is the internet today? With all the information available on the web, how much of it are we really able to trust? Of course there are many obvious examples of people posting false information on blogs and so on. But lets say for discussion sake that a college student received a B on a paper about the fundamentals of existentialism. He feels pretty confident about his work and decides to put it on the internet. Maybe he sells it to one of those websites that will sell essays to people who want to buy them, or maybe he creates a blog and posts his essay. Either way that essay is now available to billions of people and chances are someone down the line will look at it. It could be a high school student studying for a test on existentialism or professor interested in the title of the essay. Although the essay was not totally unreliable, there was probably information in it that you could not trust.

My point is that creating this blog has demonstrated to me how easy it is for someone to get an opinion or information out there. I personally use the internet a great deal for any paper I have, but as more and more people begin using the internet everyday, I feel as though the integrity of the information that out there is decreasing due to its simplicity.