Friday, March 6, 2009

Critical reflection 2.

To relate to this topic of whether to take everything on the internet as truth without taking into consideration whether it's true or fake. For me, One example is clearly forwarded mails. I am sure that many of us receive various kinds of forwarded mails from our friends and sometimes strangers as well. But how many times have we consider the fact whether it's true or false? Many of us would believe that information or the content of the mail as it is backed up with images and links and so on. Take for example...

I once received an email concerning a man eating sushi. He later died and when they opened up his brains... they found maggots or worms..

The article may be found on this site.

The pictures may be found on this site.

After reading the article and looking at images for support, would you still eat sushi?

So, Sometimes, I guess it's best that we do not simply forward forwarded mails, but check out first whether it's true and the validity it. I also once received a rather disturbing mail concerning woman and their undergarments. It was rather disturbing and couldn't get the image out of my head. But I went to search a few sites on whether it was true or not. There some sites that said, they combined two pictures together to make it look like the real thing.

So, Like I said, Everything on the internet may not be true and may be altered by various sources and taken from other references. So it's best to take it with a pinch of salt and to do your own research concerning that particular event or thing.

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