Chapter 8 briefly mentioned how much information over the years and months and weeks and days and even seconds gets copied and reformatted and resubmitted to different websites. I found this to be incredible, and have never really given it much thought that the internet is basically a ton of the same information. And the scary part is, when other internet users use websites, Wikipedia being an example, they can come across incorrect information and they reissue that same information that is inaccurate. And from my understanding, that same information gets copied and reissued again. To me it seems like a big web of incorrect information.
I think a good example of this is celebrity news. I am sure plenty of us has heard some sort of gossip about one of our favorite singers or actors and has decided to get to the bottom of it and google it. And plenty of times you will see different conclusions being drawn about the same piece of gossip. I recently did this when I heard that an actress what really born a man. I was in shock and had to google it and find out for myself, as silly as that sounds. I then realized how crazy it was for me to try and get an answer about such a thing from the internet because it was so unreliable in that sense.
What I worry about is the amount of information that I do research and it is incorrect, but because it sounds so good on the website and the website looks very professional I just believe it. I think there are many of people out there, including myself, that need to be taught what websites really are reliable and will not overload you.
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