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

Regarding the two critical reflection, to be honest i do not really know to separate them into two. I know i am being abit rebellious, but simply reorganizing all my thoughts into two is really not my style. Not only that it is not my style but it restricts me to express my views.

It is true that sometimes what is written in the internet isn't true. I usually ponder on this too, and i think that the internet has its lies. If we just stop and think about this, we will realize that perhaps 70% of the knowledge we know might not be truthful at all? Isn't that scary? This is due to the fact that there are many internet sources which are deemed untrustworthy since it practised free writing. Free writing here means anyone or anywhere may just login into a specific account from a specific computer anywhere in the world and type something and be counted as the media.

There were debates regarding the websites having those modulators and regulators to check the authencity of the articles or the informaiton provided. But let face it people, those modulators and regulators are afterall mere human, and only a handful of them against the entire world of viewers. They can only do so much of filtering 10% of data at a time. Besides that, modulators and regulators isnt really a fix profession, thus it is clear to say that most of them do not really have the professional abilities to decide the truth of the information either.

When i view a specific site, i will usually read its contents, and take them as reference, not actual fact.......I will the use those information and compare it several times with the rest of the sources; aka books and newspapers.

Even so, there are some websites which i tend to trust. For example, the information from university archives or specific organizations websites to me are deemed to be trustworthy. Even more when those writers place their ranks somewhere in the webpage.

In conclusion, the internet has a lot of data which can be used as reference; i repeat ; reference, and from there more and more of that particular topic can be searched from a web to another, a source to another, a media to another and the the picture will get clearer and clearer.

It is actually similar to real life archives. Not everything written is considered true, for truth is something gray. History are written by the winners. Ponder on this readers, is our history references even true? Are letters of ministers truthful? Are newspapers giving its right authencity? Are religious books as original as how it was made?

For more 'professional' view of this matter.....pls refer to this particular website i found which is pretty interesting on internet credibility. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Is-Wikipedia-Trustworthy-15597.shtml