I notice a lot of people like to use Wikipedia. Besides the obvious convenience, why?
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Wikipedia is simply convenient. Pritty much google,wikipedia, and youtube define the internet. So many things one can look at in regards to anything they can think of. One can be bored and look up political speeches of General Georgr Washington on google. Chances are the first link is a wikipedia link that offeres a through background of his life and times and even trivial facts about the person. Then one can go on youtube, and watch historical specials or commentary on General Washington. Most of wikipedias informaton is donated by the public. In this line of thought it is clear of bias. But a company can log on and delete information they do not want on there as well as contribute their own. Wikipedia offeres the best summary in a easy format. For example it may give a brief overview of the person, then break it down to early life, schools, achievments, controversy, trivia, then ends with foot notes.
It is pritty much a complied set of information about pritty much anything. From people, to businesses, to objects, and even physical properties. It is basically easy to use and less time consuming as opposed to getting dressed, driving 5 or more miles to the library looking up books, magazines, encyclopedias and then piecing out all the information you find on the pages. Wikipedia pritty much equals all that by just typing. And wikipedia's founders stated that it is a non profit orgiisation and dedicated to brining information to the public.
Truthfully, I use it just for the convenience. Before taking this class, I just thought of it as a search engine. I didn't even doubt the validity of it, which brings up my next topic. How do we know when an internet site is valid? There are so many diet sites and millions of people fall victim of them each day. When do we know to trust what the information the site is giving us. How safe is the internet? and how gullible are we? Too many people have experienced identity theft and many due to spoofing and phishing. How can we tell when something is fake before it's too late? Back to our previous discussion on diets. Are success stories enough to make a diet work? I mean every company wants money, so if they can persuade the audience, they will make a profit. Unfortuneately, people around the world fall victim to the amazing promises the beach babe or rock stone abs guy says. Even though it's hard, people have to make sure that there is scientific proof, and not just one person proving the weight loss, but many as well, to make it significant. There should be a site or something to demonstrate to the layperson how to avoid getting trapped in good deals. I mean, there are the safety terms and agreements and other things, but how much can we trust those too? I mean, I know a lot of people don't even read those because it's too long anyways.
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Wikipedia is simply convenient. Pritty much google,wikipedia, and youtube define the internet. So many things one can look at in regards to anything they can think of. One can be bored and look up political speeches of General Georgr Washington on google. Chances are the first link is a wikipedia link that offeres a through background of his life and times and even trivial facts about the person. Then one can go on youtube, and watch historical specials or commentary on General Washington. Most of wikipedias informaton is donated by the public. In this line of thought it is clear of bias. But a company can log on and delete information they do not want on there as well as contribute their own. Wikipedia offeres the best summary in a easy format. For example it may give a brief overview of the person, then break it down to early life, schools, achievments, controversy, trivia, then ends with foot notes.
It is pritty much a complied set of information about pritty much anything. From people, to businesses, to objects, and even physical properties. It is basically easy to use and less time consuming as opposed to getting dressed, driving 5 or more miles to the library looking up books, magazines, encyclopedias and then piecing out all the information you find on the pages. Wikipedia pritty much equals all that by just typing. And wikipedia's founders stated that it is a non profit orgiisation and dedicated to brining information to the public.
Truthfully, I use it just for the convenience. Before taking this class, I just thought of it as a search engine. I didn't even doubt the validity of it, which brings up my next topic. How do we know when an internet site is valid? There are so many diet sites and millions of people fall victim of them each day. When do we know to trust what the information the site is giving us. How safe is the internet? and how gullible are we? Too many people have experienced identity theft and many due to spoofing and phishing. How can we tell when something is fake before it's too late? Back to our previous discussion on diets. Are success stories enough to make a diet work? I mean every company wants money, so if they can persuade the audience, they will make a profit. Unfortuneately, people around the world fall victim to the amazing promises the beach babe or rock stone abs guy says. Even though it's hard, people have to make sure that there is scientific proof, and not just one person proving the weight loss, but many as well, to make it significant. There should be a site or something to demonstrate to the layperson how to avoid getting trapped in good deals. I mean, there are the safety terms and agreements and other things, but how much can we trust those too? I mean, I know a lot of people don't even read those because it's too long anyways.
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