Reading response #1

Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet Response

"Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet" describes and gives examples of the falsehoods that are prevalent on the internet, and gives advice on how to detect a "hoax" or "counterfeit" site to ensure that the information that a user is recieving is truthful.

This article really made me skeptical about where I get my information from when I am on the Internet. I knew there where hoax sites, but not so many that had the names so close, like changing the suffix from ".com" to ".org". Many times when I am going to a website, I tend to use the google bar and type in half the address and let it finish it for me. But this article reminded me that I definitely should double check the domain, especially the sites that ask for my personal information.

My entire college career I found it so annoying when my professors and/or teachers would ask for a working bibliography, but this article made me realize why they did. There are sites out there that many students turn to for their information because we think that its is a trusted source. Say for example, Wikipedia. Many people don't know that although the information on that site are monitored and checked, anything can be put on there by anyone, true or not, and it's up to the site to catch the mistakes before a user does. I see that it is now helpful to have that check up to see if where we get our information from is accurate to ensure that we do not become involved with a hoax and spread false information as well.

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