Sunday, April 29, 2012

BLOGGING & the reliability of information on the Internet

Nowadays, Internet has become a big influence for teenagers. It has become an important element of teenagers daily lives. Relating to blogs, me, myself can't stop blogging, it feels like I've spent most of my teen's life just for blogging, either for important or useless stuffs.

Internet has many effects. It can be positive yet it can also be a negative one. Talking about the 'Internet', finding a credible site or reliable information on the internet is a difficult one. It takes time cause it might lead us, especially teenagers to fall in to what we known as 'plagiarism', which some in most cases these plagiarism are unintended. There are some ways we can counter-act plagiarism, by always remember to acknowledge and cite the sources properly. It's also crucial to identify the purpose to which the site is made; in the other hand checking the sources' reliability and credibility is also important. websites' reliability can simply be analyzed through looking at the source's url, history of the source (alexa.com), the publisher,  and through looking at what do other websites says and lastly is to revise it from the beginning.

In future time, Internet might be more advanced, which means it will have more effects to us, human beings. Having Internet that is more developed would be an awesome thing because it would be easier to manage the time for people in the future on the works they do due the quicker time it needs to find the particular informations. With simply the help of advance internet, people could find thousand even millions of great reliable information that could determine someone's career in the future, like myself. It might help me to use most of my spare times to have a part-time job while the work still can finished on time.
So in the end, internet is a helpful application for us as long we use it in the right course of action.