Social media has recently been open to everyday citizens
that are able to edit, publish, and be their own author for news and
information. This has definitely become a great impact on what resources are
reliable and unreliable. Everyone has his or her favourite “go to” web pages,
or news. Due to the technology today, social media is one of the fastest and
instantaneous ways to view and read the news and other information you’re
interested in. My argument would be that social media has increased the
information we have access to, but also decreased the quality of the
information that is being released. All though the information has increased
its hard to trust particular authors and editors because we don’t know if the
information is true or false. One of the sites I never trust, and we aren’t
even aloud to use for school is Wikipedia. Anyone can add information to
Wikipedia whether it’s right or wrong. Unfortunately not many of us are aware
of the certain sites that we shouldn’t be getting our resources from. I feel
that a lot of the controversy for this topic can be avoided if users were to
site their information, or even tell us how they know from their own experience.
In most cases, when you’re asking a personal question you will notice people
respond with stuff that has happened with them that will help you relate to
your situation. When it comes to the quality of the information being
broadcasted I feel the authors aren’t reaching to the potential some users are
looking for. I notice for myself that I have to go to at least five different
web pages to get the proper information I am looking for in particular cases.
At the end of the day the internet, news, and other information gets us where
we need to be and answers are questions. I feel the quality being put into
these resources could be updated with more accurate and efficient data. Also
not everyone should be aloud to be an editor or author because we feel stupid
when the information we share with others is incorrect.