Monday, May 21, 2012

Website 5/21

I visit the website Facebook on a regular basis. It is a useful website to me because it keeps me updates on the lives of my friends and families. Although some things on it aren't credible, it allows me to see what everyone is doing and plan events. It is very helpful with keeping in touch with friends from high school and even furthering new friendships. 

I've always found the website Wikipedia to be unbelievable and to lack credibility. This is because people can edit posts and add pretty much whatever they want. Although Wikipedia will censor out the outrageously unbelievable information, not everything is caught and false facts are too easy to come across. I have had personal experiences where I'm doing research, stumble across Wikipedia, and find very untrue information that conflicts with various reliable websites or biographies. I even had a friend log onto Wikipedia once and change the information of an important date in time to something completely unrelated as a joke. Although Wikipedia deleted it, the information was up for an hour and a variety of people could've seen it. 

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