Internet - should we believe it or not?

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words. 

Nowadays you can find any type of information with just a click away, it is so simple and fast. But the reliability of the information in any websites is still doubtful to me because anyone can make up any stories or 'facts'  in any website. Like Wikipedia, anyone can edit the information and somehow people do believe the contents. So, for me i will trust 70% on the articles in the internet given that the sources of the information are from trust-able websites.

However, i don't really trust the websites which operates product selling business especially the websites that sell cosmetics and facial products. Normally the seller will say how good is the product and how the customers like it. People always promote their products on forums to attract more customers. If i were to buy any products, i will do researches and find reviews about the product before putting my money on it.

To believe what's on the internet or not, is our own view. But it is better for us to think wisely before we believe it to prevent from getting any fake information. That's all for my last post. Sayonara!

Internet-should we believe that --- o.O???

Here come our last blog assignment --- Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words. 

For me, I will answer yes.
Welcome to the Internet. As I hope my analogy makes clear, there is an extremely wide variety of material on the Internet, ranging in its accuracy, reliability, and value. Unlike most traditional information media (books, magazines, organizational documents), no one has to approve the content before it is made public. Information is everywhere on the Internet, existing in large quantities and continuously being created and revised. This information exists in a large variety of kinds (facts, opinions, stories, statistics)and is created for many purposes (to inform, to persuade, to sell, to present a viewpoint, and to create or change an attitude or belief). For each of these various kinds and purposes, information exists on many levels of quality or reliability. It ranges from very good to very bad and includes every shade in between.

The first stage of evaluating your sources takes place before you do any searching. Take a minute to ask yourself what exactly you are looking for. There is the purpose of your research to get new ideas, to find either factual or reasoned support for a position, to survey opinion, or something else? The answer will be depend in INTERNET! Once you decide on this, you will be directly screen sources by testing them against your research goal. For an example, you are writing a research paper, and if you are looking for both facts and well-argued opinions to support or challenge a position, you will know which sources can be quickly passed by and which deserve a second look, simply by asking whether each source appears to offer facts.

Thats why,  with so many sources to choose from in a typical search in internet, there is no reason to settle for unreliable material. 

Internet: Believe it or Not?

If we are lost and want to find the location: just Google map it; if we are curious and want to know everything, we just 'Wikipedia' ( instead of buying a thick book of encyclopedia to carry around).With this thing called Internet, the access of knowledge is just a 'click' away BUT how reliable it could be?

How much do I trust this new encyclopedia of mine?Well, i can say almost 80% I trusted the validity of it PROVIDED that the information came from trusted websites such as -CNN , THE STAR and Wikipedia. These media to me, are actually 'mainstream media ' at the internet.The rest- (blogs/ forum) are like alternative media that provide us another point of view where i often question the validity of the information. This is because a lot of time, the internet users misused the power of internet to spread rumors just to gain attention. Just like the case of journalist and blogger, i trusted most of the article written by the authorized journalist on the official website but will still refer to the blogger to know what others think about this issue and to get a better understanding of it issues from another another point of view.

♥Internet.. to believe or not to??

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it?

If yes, why? If no, why?

Discuss this in your own words.

Finding information or news in the internet is quite easy nowadays. With just a click, you will get a lot of information that you want to find but have you ever think about the information that you found is true or untrue. Honestly, is quite hard to judge the info that you found is true or untrue, because you wouldn't really check all the details of the writer. For me, I seldom believe the information that show on internet, even thought some of them might be true, but i will choose not to trust all.

We can't deny that the internet had bring a lot of benefits to the society, everyone can share their information together, connecting each other in different place. Almost everyday, there will have a lot of news and information update in different networking site, thus people will follow up the information and news that they read in internet. More over, people like to find information from some networking site that is mainly for searching information, such as Wikipedia. Do you know that Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. If it is like this, the information that we get to find will not be that accurate, but there's still a lot of people like to find information with Wikipedia.

Have you ever received any mail saying that you have will win a grand prize, and ask you to meet up to take your prize. Will you believe it?? For me definitely i will feel like it's a trap, i will just delete it, what if other peoples received it and they believe it. They will fall into the trap, end up they will lost their money or even worst. Is a must for us to be aware whenever we received mails from others, don't simply click it, it might be a trap. Information that we read from the mail sometimes might be untrue, maybe is just a rumor that spread around.

Is a choice for us to believe the information or not to, therefor we need to think wisely before we choose to believe it. That's all for my last post. =)

IS THE INTERNET INFORMATION CORRECT? NO?

Attached here is a comic strip entitled "Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide, and fast on the Internet." taken from "Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture" by Stanley Baran, pg 324.

As they say, informations are all at the tip of the fingers.... The internet made it possible though. Everything and I mean 'everything' is at the world wide web including shopping per order, learning tools and many other cool stuff....But the problem is... Are the informations inside that web can be trusted?

It is true that the information are now easily found but it can also be easily spreaded too...In that case, the information in the internet can be true at times... And false too. Depends on the web we are in. There's a secure info web like 'Emerald' which are heavily protected and only allowed the info to be posted by the professors and all the researchers around the globe. A web like this are safe to believe. On the other hand, some web like the 'wikipedia' and other independent web that have no authorities, we cannot be too trusting. This is because everyone can change and edited the contents inside that web...Annndddd yeah, I can't be that sure of the info whenever I go to this kind of web...

So, in overall, I am not too confident to use the info that are spread across the internet..

Well, I guess this is my last post though... Soo, see you guys around. :)

~Internet information true or fake?~

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words.

For this topic, it must be a "No" for me. I would not take what is on the internet as truth without thinking. This is because, we all should know that there is a lot of different kind of peoples in the world, and of course, there must have some of the peoples that like to make out stories and declare it’s a truth.

Spreading news through internet is a very common thing to us, spreading rumors or fake information also very easy as well nowadays. Many people use internet to discuss thing, chatting, gossips and much more, most of them talk based on their feelings, comments, and what they trust its true but not based on valid source of information.

So, it's hard for us to judge or examine the validity or the information is true or not. Moreover, there are people who use internet to spread some fake information in order to reach their purpose or even to harm others.

Besides that, I think we usually encounter the situation of receiving a lot of emails, which we call them "spam" emails. This also one of the ways they spread news and there could be most of it is a fake information. For example, few years back, suppose those who have a hotmail account or MSN should have receive such emails claim that MSN or hotmail is going to charge for using it in the future or after a date, and we suppose to forward the email to all our contacts or our account will be closed and we have to pay for using it. The condition it requires is different when you realize you has been receive same kind of emails even after a period of time. They write it in a "formal" way and claim the writer is the chief officer of MSN or hotmail company. But after the due date, even we did not forward the emails, our account still can be use and it does not happen to charge us for anything. This proves that those emails is actually fake.

As conclusion, information in the internet cannot be trust without thinking much. We must think it over and make sure it's a reliable or valid source before we believe it. Well, here we come to the last discussion, hope we still can share other things in the other time. See you all. =D
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Internet ~ trustable ?

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words.

Yes, I usually get fooled by some fake articles on the internet when I wasn't aware about it because anyone can make up any stories that look or sound real. Plus they can pose as anyone on the internet. You'll never know who's behind all these.

From what I have experienced before, Twitter which is the most popular social media website now, some of the users from there like to create accounts and pose as someone famous. At first, people or fans will 'follow' that particular poser's account and thinking that is real. Everyone goes all happy and tries to talk to that 'poser', they get so excited when they receive a reply from the 'poser'. I have no clue what's their purpose of doing this but these accounts doesn't last long.

In addition, some internet users like to spread fake rumors or gossips around the net. Usually they doesn't have prove of what they said, so it's easy to tell whether it's true or not, but those who are gullible fell for it easily.

But now, I only trust official articles from some reliable sources. Even when it's fake but looks true, I will ask for the source they've gotten from and only I will believe it.

Internet... truth or lies?

Attached here is a comic strip entitled "Rumors, lies and innuendo spread far, wide, and fast on the Internet." taken from "Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture" by Stanley Baran, pg 324.

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it? If yes, why? If no, why? Discuss this in your own words.


Sourcing for information is no longer a hassle for people compared to the past where the only source of information is from books and encyclopaedias. Since the advent of computers and internet, information is only a click away. The internet has become a major source for information, entertainment and many more. Even though information-searching has become so much easier with the internet, the validity of the information obtained remains questionable.

As for me, I can say that I trust what is on the internet most of the time, maybe around 70%, IF the information is from a slightly more trusted website such as Wikipedia or from journals. That is to say that I often do think about the validity of the information I search for especially when it comes to searching reliable information for writing assignments. I do not think that we should take information from internet and believe that all of it is true simply at face value. There should be room for doubts because some of the information found on the internet are written by amateur authors and are not supported by true facts. Plus, there are millions or maybe trillions of information in the internet and it would be rather foolish to believe that all of it is true. I believe that it is our duty as the user or audience to filter the information and take into account only what we believe is true and relevant as some information on the internet could have been exaggerated.

Besides that, with the advancement of technology, there has been a rise in cyber crime. Hence, it would be dangerous if we were to believe what is on the net without thinking first. All in all, the internet may be a powerful and useful source for information but it comes with a risk. It is up to us as users to determine whether the information obtained from the internet is true because for all we know, that information might just be some sort of scam.

So, let us all be wise enough to think rationally before believing something that is written on the internet. That is all from me!! My last post!!! xD yaaaaaay!!!! ;) bye bye guys!!!

Hello peep's. :)

Now, it is time to post the third question of the week...

...MEDIA STEREOTYPES...

From what I know about the word 'stereotype' is that.... It is an oversimplified thoughts, image, perspective or point of view... (Umm... is it the same? haha... whatever..) This stereotyped media can make the society receive the sent massage quickly. Stereotypes can appear in the media because of the biases of writers, directors, producers, reporters and editors. This is because the deadlines looms...It is sometimes faster and easier to use a stereotype to characterize a person or situation, than it is to provide a more complex explanation.

These stereotype media can sometimes be dangerous... It can be One of the most dangerous ways in which the use of racial stereotypes. The entertainment industry, especially the film industry, is notorious for presenting their minority characters in a much more violent fashion then the white ones. Harsh language is far more overused in characters of racial minority than of their white counterparts, for example. This impression that people of color are somehow more violent, leads to fear and ignorance that fuels racism in America. Ouch. These are the racist movie that I can think of: Tokyo incident. Although it is not about America, but it is a racism story.

The sources can be from various types of media such as... Magazines, Internet, television and many more.... So, it seemed very very verrryyyyyy impossible to avoid these stereotyped media....I was once influenced too. :D Haha, when I was lil' of courseee.. When I watched a cartoon, their antagonist character will surely be an ugly and fierceful personality as well as their physical looks...And the bad guy seems obviously evil. Something like this:

This guy's name is T100..... A cool machine don't you think?

Lord Zedd, an antagonist from the movie: Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. Hehe, I was once a fan. Haha.

He does'nt have any skin left..... He always walk around public like that.... Eeeuuuuu, grossss..

But now, the antagonis I see right now can be deceiving... They sometimes can pretend to be a good guy.... And not always be a 'bad guy'....I guess that they are not predictable anymore... I think...

Stereotypes media can affect the way society views them, and change society's expectations of them. With enough exposure to a stereotype, society may come to view it as a reality rather than a chosen representation.

The media can be a powerful tool in creating or reinforcing stereotypes. An example is the public perception that youth crime is on the rise, or out of control.....

Media stereotypes

With only few seconds to deliver, they spoon feed the viewer with a standard protocol in order for them to understand the information quickly. Watching it for the first few times, we may still be conscious and doubt that its true, however, when it is repeated many times again we will subconsciously apply this knowledge towards those we meet in real-life.

One of the most common stereotypes is the gender issue. Not too long ago, the media used to portray female as a housewife that cooks and take care of the family while the husband’s job is to earn hard to make end meets and so they live happily ever after. Now, as the situation change where women yearns for equal rights with the men, the media now portray female as successful working women, earning too along with her husband for the house BUT when the children have attitude problems, they blame the mother not the father; when the husband is having an affair, is because the wife is too busy and not attentive to him (not the other way around!).

The story usually end where 1.the wife quit her job in order to maintain the ‘equilibrium of the society’ or 2.the partner separate in their own way— 3.the women end up being a helpless loner/ desperate housewife.

The media may have portray a women as competitive as a men, BUT they are usually women that are fierce, rude, careless about the family. In real life, there are many successful working mother who have a happy family.

Another common stereotypes found is in the tourism advertisement. An example from daily life on how these ads affect us:When we think about Sabah and Sarawak, we will think of undeveloped place with the native living on the rumah panjang in the middle of the forest. In fact, they are quite as developed as us now. When we think of Middle East country we tend to think of camels as they main transportation. Infact, when I told this to one of my friend from Saudi Arabia, he told me that ‘camels are only for tourists, we have cars and trains’

Although these stereotype do exist in society but we must bear in mind not to be prejudices and justify them base on that as not all of them act in that way. Everyone is special in their own way!