Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it?

Can’t be denied that I often take what is on the internet as truth or just as references. When one is facing a question, he would post is on internet to find out the answer though it isn’t always the correct one. The “relationship” between man and internet is getting closer and closer nowadays which a man couldn’t live without it. Don’t you think it’s silly? (though, the same thing happen to me either.) We know that same information on the internet might be fake, we still rely on it. What’s the point? People are getting lazy and lazy. Lazy to think, lazy to look for information other than what’s on the net and even lazy to compare which is the truth. When we look back the time in older days, how human being look for information and how human being gather the information. They are always using the manual way to do so. As the recent generation, we couldn’t choose the manual way as we are fighting against the time. People need to be fast, to be effective in working and to be the pioneer of all. We are competing day by day. Day by day, technology is getting improved than before. Thus, we rely on the internet which we thought is reliable. Is that so? Are we actually lose our mind and become lazy to think? In older days, human invented computer. Nowadays, computer (technology) created our minds. It is silly to say that but it is true. Perhaps someday in future, computer will control our minds and even our living. Even myself is one the “victims”.

Do you often take what is on the Internet as truth without thinking much about it?

It’s an interesting topic and need to be concerned. First of all, we couldn’t tell if the information on the internet is telling the truth. Let’s take myself for an example. There are a lot researches to do for my university assignment. Thus, where to look for that information? Without thinking much, I surf the net for the research. For instance, when I key in the words that I want to look for, within a few seconds, a lot of results from different website appear on my computer. With just a easy click, I can look for what I want. Search engine such as Google, yahoo!, msn and so on. On the other hand, Wikipedia, which is a very familiar website to gather information, normally appear for one of the results for most search engines. As everyone knows, anyone of us could edit the information within the place. This makes the information in Wikipedia doesn’t seem to be so reliable. But, do you really about that? Most of us, without thinking much, directly refer to the words written on the net. Without thinking much. Is this the reflection of man’s laziness? Or man, nowadays, getting more and more reliable on internet. And of course, this is not a good sign or a positive circumstance. We know that besides surfing the internet, there are a lot more ways to look for information. And I can tell that these sources are more reliable than what is on the internet. But, most of the students including myself might be too lazy to check out more in a library. They would prefer sitting in their room facing their computers. And again, this is absolutely not healthy. Anyway, I still take what is on the internet, not as truth, but as references.