http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/things-internet-may-have-ruined/

number 2 is my pet peeve:

2. Reliability of Information

With millions of blogs and websites out there on the net, one question we often ask is how much is the information they provide accurate and reliable. Given the convenience and low cost of publishing a blog or a website, there seem to be a lack of accountability for what are being published. The ease of modifying your online publication (as compared to offline publications like books and newsletters) makes putting out incorrect information less of an issue to the owner of the site. He or she can always amend the mistakes at no cost.

Specialized journalists who adhere to the accuracy of the stories they produced are now replaced by bloggers who may not have such practices. The result is that you get a massive number of different versions of the same story because there’s no way to verify it without a trustworthy source (e.g. from a news site). At the worst, opinions can be misinterpreted as facts by readers online who may then go on to spread them as the gospel truth in social networking sites.

As we internet users become aware of the existence of rumors masquerading as truths, we start to become skeptical in whatever we see or hear about be it in Facebook or blogs. This, in effect, creates a generation of cynics among us, who regards internet information as unreliable and shaky at best.

yes I think this is an issue also. There is a generation (or more) of young adults who have been raised without rigorous requirements of proof, substantiation, and knowledge of the difference between fact and opinion, and the skills to evaluate the worthiness of a source of info (as part of their daily educational process). well said Harmony!

I only agreed with what someone else said,,,but thanx

Yes isn't it amazing. People spread everything there is to know about themselves all over the social media sites and then act surprised and play victim as that little escapade becomes a liability. And I'm going to save #2 for last.

Ah, copyrights. Well aren't the entitlement crowd allowed to steal anothers work, the government helps them steal everything else so why not music movies and other stuff.

Genuine Communication, what a joke. Send someone a text even when sitting right beside you. Taking time to enjoy anothers company and having a good conversation, a lost art. Part of the indoctrination system called today's modern education.

Work/Life Balance, just one big myth not even worth mentioning so that leaves that infamous Reliability of Information. That has nothing to do with the internet at all. I mean it's prime example is specialized journalist, like the ones in mass media that get feed their stories in mass and the masses sucking it all up like it was the gospel.

But what it really breaks down to is responsibility, personal responsibility. To those that have it, none of these things matter, they don't apply. Now those that refuse to accept personal responsibility, these items are truly the excuses need to dodge life and play the victim.

And just whose fault is it anyway when the mass media spoon feeds you all the news you need to know and then there is all this other stuff posted by idiots that only know what you know, how are you supposed to know what is true or not. Well the truth of the matter is you don't, do you?

Members of the mainstream media aren't always accurate, either.

Back in 2004, bloggers were the people who exposed the Rathergate hoax.

Dodo, I don't expect any man/woman , organization, etc, to be perfect and get everything RIGHT every time

however I do think there seems more concern and accountability in 'mainstream' old fashioned news sources as to the integrity and validation of their reports than there is on the world wide web,,,,

I agree. That is why I will trust a report coming from CBS News before I will trust one coming from an online tabloid such as WND.

you're welcome :)

touch�, I find the main networks to be most likely to take time to verify and validate the 'facts' they broadcast

abc, cbs, nbc


cable can be just as bad as internet though, most have serious slant to almost all their stories,,,,


We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. ~Denis Diderot

News department of broadcast networks can also slant stories.
One might not notice the slant if the slant is to one's liking.

Really what do you use to validate that statement? You mean the mass media does investigative journalism? They never slant their stories?

Some people will believe anything but the truth.

Wouldn't doubt that at all but it would all be a lot more interesting coming from MSNBC.

Facts, all the facts and just the facts as laid down by the White House and scrubbed by the owners mass media. Do you also read their magazine?

seeing what isn't there

let me repeat two points

1. I don't expect any man/woman , organization, etc, to be perfect and get everything RIGHT every time


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2. there seems more concern and accountability in 'mainstream' old fashioned news sources as to the integrity and validation of their reports than there is on the world wide web,,,,

seems: to appear to be something or to do something : to have a quality, appearance, etc., that shows or suggests a particular characteristic, feeling, etc

so, yes, any news channel, network can and no doubt has and does have slant on some of its stories , but internet and cable SEEM to do it more often and with more impunity

and no, I cant and don't feel a need to 'validate' what I personally observe or what my perceptions are(Based on my experiences, which cant be 'proven' on an internet forum)

Slant, how about outright lie. They gave up on slanting long ago.

My.#1.. my self esteem..

the internet destroyed your self esteem?

that sucks,,,,

I really don't admire how just because we are on social site's, it should be the main way to talk with friends/family/lover. For me, there's nothing like hearing a voice on the phone. It makes it sem more real, aswell. And I want the person I'm talking to, hear my tone of voice, so that I can't be misunderstood. Unlike typing, where you can't tell. I don't give a hoot if I sound old-fashioned. Just because something is modern, it doesn't mean it will seem better.

... no your not old fashioned at all. .. I think the phone is for you ma .bell...

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