The Internet has known to be a great medium that are able to interconnect us with the world. From breakthrough news to entertainment, we can get them anywhere, anytime within seconds. Though it’s there, right in front of our face and prompt, can we really rely on them?
Rumours, lies and innuendo, we could hear them every single day either from the net or straight from someone’s mouth, we just cannot stop them from going around and it would not stop, continuing story to story and so forth.
For instance, the ever-popular Facebook, we could lie all we want about our identity and all and no one would actually care. Here, we don’t see it as an offence but rather as an enjoyment or just for our own leisure. Another example is the Gaza-Israel war. Who is wrong, Israel or Palestine? Some say Israel, because they are occupying the West Bank in Gaza strip which belongs to Palestine and claimed the land is theirs while others say its Palestine’s fault and that.
On the whole, be careful of what you hear, read or see on the internet. Level of certainty of information from the internet will always be doubt whether it’s really the truth or the other way round but seriously, do not suck everything in (cause we tend to do so!). :)
Friday, July 31, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet.
I agreed on what it says. Rumours, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet. Normally, nowadays people use more on Internet then other medium to convey or transmit their ideas and information. The messages and information can spread to the whole world in just a second through the Internet. That is why when we are searching for information in Google, by just one click, all the information and people's opinion or ideas will immediately pop up onto the screen. Can you imagine how fast the Internet speed can be? Although the speed is very fast but are the information and ideas that we found telling the truth or not?
We cannot differentiate it whether is true or not but usually people will just take in everything they found in the web and it depends on the person who read it whether he believe is true or not. Mostly, we try to filter what we expose to from Internet. However, some of the people will just take in and think that is the truth of the news. Some of them knew that the information they get it is a fake one but they still do nothing towards the information. Some of them even change the fact to the fake. They use Internet to transmit that fake information which we call lies and rumours just to fool the authorities and they are trying to influence the authorities by doing that so the authorities think the way they think. For example, that's lots of bad rumours and lies of Obama. I found a discussion about the rumours of Obama in the following link. We really don't know which is true.
In facts, nowadays teenagers spend their time more on Internet. We can say that most of the teenagers have a Facebook and Frienster account. Some of them even have 3 to 4 bloggers. Some of them switch on the computer and straight he/she will automatically log on to Facebook or Friendster to look on the reply or comments that be left by. Some of the people will miss use the function of these things. They will try to tell lies and spread rumours to their friends by using that and they will start a discussion. For blogger, because of the advantages of blogger that they can express any ideas that they wanted to in their blogs and they started to miss-use it. They start to convey the wrong ideas and information in their blog. Those people that seen the blog might think the same way because being influence by the person's ideas. Although it is wrong but some of them might think that is the truth and he will start to spread to others again. It won't stop until the truth is review. Some of them even being brain wash by the lies and rumours and they think it is the real true fact. This happened because they rely too much on Internet.
By the way, we should be more cautions towards what we expose to from Internet because we don't know which one is the truth and which one is the fake one. Now, I think that there are few billions or people surfing information from webs. This is how news can spread throughout the whole world in not even a second. Be aware of lies, rumours and innuendo that spread from Internet.
This is the link which I found it that they are discussing about Obama and Bush. There are lots more. Just for a reference.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj7W_lfwleq2xF73mE.u7iojzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20081115083352AAba2Bd
We cannot differentiate it whether is true or not but usually people will just take in everything they found in the web and it depends on the person who read it whether he believe is true or not. Mostly, we try to filter what we expose to from Internet. However, some of the people will just take in and think that is the truth of the news. Some of them knew that the information they get it is a fake one but they still do nothing towards the information. Some of them even change the fact to the fake. They use Internet to transmit that fake information which we call lies and rumours just to fool the authorities and they are trying to influence the authorities by doing that so the authorities think the way they think. For example, that's lots of bad rumours and lies of Obama. I found a discussion about the rumours of Obama in the following link. We really don't know which is true.
In facts, nowadays teenagers spend their time more on Internet. We can say that most of the teenagers have a Facebook and Frienster account. Some of them even have 3 to 4 bloggers. Some of them switch on the computer and straight he/she will automatically log on to Facebook or Friendster to look on the reply or comments that be left by. Some of the people will miss use the function of these things. They will try to tell lies and spread rumours to their friends by using that and they will start a discussion. For blogger, because of the advantages of blogger that they can express any ideas that they wanted to in their blogs and they started to miss-use it. They start to convey the wrong ideas and information in their blog. Those people that seen the blog might think the same way because being influence by the person's ideas. Although it is wrong but some of them might think that is the truth and he will start to spread to others again. It won't stop until the truth is review. Some of them even being brain wash by the lies and rumours and they think it is the real true fact. This happened because they rely too much on Internet.
By the way, we should be more cautions towards what we expose to from Internet because we don't know which one is the truth and which one is the fake one. Now, I think that there are few billions or people surfing information from webs. This is how news can spread throughout the whole world in not even a second. Be aware of lies, rumours and innuendo that spread from Internet.
This is the link which I found it that they are discussing about Obama and Bush. There are lots more. Just for a reference.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj7W_lfwleq2xF73mE.u7iojzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20081115083352AAba2Bd
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet.
I'm agree to the comic which mention that rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the internet.
Now a day, many people would like to own a blog which allow them to post their information or article on the internet. The blogger just a normal person like us, he don't even have to take responsibility to what he had write because blog is a private and free for everyone to express their ideas. Some of the people would like to post their ideas which is very critical or even out of point. In this case, readers may effect by the article and believe to what the blogger say. For example, before election, some people who is not support to either one of the candidate would like to write something bad or make lies from the internet or blogs to others which makes him fail in the election. Eventually, writing blogs may cause rumors through the internet which is fake and included with lies.
Besides that, people now would like to make friends through the internet. Web page such as Friendster or Facebook is using by a lot of people all over the world. Most of our teenagers would like to have an account there and make friends through the internet. From the newspaper, we can see that offenders may write fake information in their profile which allow them to cheat on our teenagers. They will try to have a date with teenagers and do crimes to them. It is all start from lies!
As we can see that internet comes many advantages to our daily life, people should take their responsibility but not make lies through the internet. Besides, we should becareful when we want to search for information from the internet.
Now a day, many people would like to own a blog which allow them to post their information or article on the internet. The blogger just a normal person like us, he don't even have to take responsibility to what he had write because blog is a private and free for everyone to express their ideas. Some of the people would like to post their ideas which is very critical or even out of point. In this case, readers may effect by the article and believe to what the blogger say. For example, before election, some people who is not support to either one of the candidate would like to write something bad or make lies from the internet or blogs to others which makes him fail in the election. Eventually, writing blogs may cause rumors through the internet which is fake and included with lies.
Besides that, people now would like to make friends through the internet. Web page such as Friendster or Facebook is using by a lot of people all over the world. Most of our teenagers would like to have an account there and make friends through the internet. From the newspaper, we can see that offenders may write fake information in their profile which allow them to cheat on our teenagers. They will try to have a date with teenagers and do crimes to them. It is all start from lies!
As we can see that internet comes many advantages to our daily life, people should take their responsibility but not make lies through the internet. Besides, we should becareful when we want to search for information from the internet.
Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet - 2
For centuries, people have always been rely their information and news through mainstream media; i.e. television, radio, newspaper, magazine. However, people these days has begun to shift to Internet to obtain the information they wanted to know. It is indeed that Internet is the fastest and cheapest medium to get the information and news. People is reading others' blogs or through social networks to know about life of a person or comments of an issue or products which they could not get from the mainstream media. Hence, people is trusting words from others more than the information from the mainstream media as in this information age, many people is noticing that there are information that the mainstream media is unable to send out or have been hided.
However, with its convenience and cost efficiency, everyone has become the editor of their own information and news. They can write whatever they want and with the anonymity in the Internet, some irresponsible user might or some that are paid to post up some comment in order to deteriorate the other party especially in politics or a competing organisation. Also, some might be using a photoshop to paste a celebrity's face in a nude body to attract people to their site. There are as well users who does not has the first-hand information exaggerate the news by just according to a picture to create a chaos or gossips in their website and is just to attract more reader.
For that, it is true that rumors, lies and innuendo spread in a lightning speed in Internet. But, there are some chances that there are some truth out there as well when there are also some truth that has been hiding from us as well by the mainstream. For whichever stream that we decide to trust on will be based on the readers or viewers belief and their own judgement.
(This is just my point of view for studies discussion.)
However, with its convenience and cost efficiency, everyone has become the editor of their own information and news. They can write whatever they want and with the anonymity in the Internet, some irresponsible user might or some that are paid to post up some comment in order to deteriorate the other party especially in politics or a competing organisation. Also, some might be using a photoshop to paste a celebrity's face in a nude body to attract people to their site. There are as well users who does not has the first-hand information exaggerate the news by just according to a picture to create a chaos or gossips in their website and is just to attract more reader.
For that, it is true that rumors, lies and innuendo spread in a lightning speed in Internet. But, there are some chances that there are some truth out there as well when there are also some truth that has been hiding from us as well by the mainstream. For whichever stream that we decide to trust on will be based on the readers or viewers belief and their own judgement.
(This is just my point of view for studies discussion.)
Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet
No doubt, the Internet is a very powerful medium of communication which allows us to get in touch with anyone, anywhere, anytime just with a click. News, information, issues can be spread throughout the world within seconds. But are these news and information reliable? Are they really the truth? Which are rumors? Which are lies? Which are truth? No one knows.. It is up to us to believe what we believe is the truth.
Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet. This is what people are busy with everyday. Creating news and writing own thoughts in blogs and forums, reading celebrity gossips, faking information about oneself on facebook and friendster, chatting in forums with fake identity, etc. People do not see it as a crime if you are lying on the Internet. No one can find out the truth. So, who cares.
Rumors probably have been around ever since human can speak. It will never stop spreading as long as people still can speak. From one mouth to another, news starts to change. People add sugar and spices to it while spreading. By the time the news get to you, you never know how the actual story was. Take the late Michael Jackson's death for example. Some say that he wasn't in his casket during the memorial service. Some say that he is already buried as a Muslim. Some say that his family is not going to bury him without his brain. With just only one incident, there can be so many different types of news. Again, which one to believe?
Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide and fast on the Internet. This is what people are busy with everyday. Creating news and writing own thoughts in blogs and forums, reading celebrity gossips, faking information about oneself on facebook and friendster, chatting in forums with fake identity, etc. People do not see it as a crime if you are lying on the Internet. No one can find out the truth. So, who cares.
Rumors probably have been around ever since human can speak. It will never stop spreading as long as people still can speak. From one mouth to another, news starts to change. People add sugar and spices to it while spreading. By the time the news get to you, you never know how the actual story was. Take the late Michael Jackson's death for example. Some say that he wasn't in his casket during the memorial service. Some say that he is already buried as a Muslim. Some say that his family is not going to bury him without his brain. With just only one incident, there can be so many different types of news. Again, which one to believe?
There's an article on this rumors spreading on internet matter. The title of the news is "Rumors move fast on Net's info superhighway". http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1996&month=10&day=20&article=BUSINESS11506.dtl
I would say Internet is a very dangerous medium of communication. We have to be smart on choosing what to believe from what we read from it. Rumors, lies and innuendo spread real far, wide and fast on internet. Imagine from 1 to 10, 10 to 100, 100 to 1000 and the numbers go on and on. It can reach out to every tiny space on earth.
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