Internet Trust

Is the information on Internet websites really trustworthy? Before now, I have not really paid attention to this issue. Before high school, I went to a private Montessori school, so the issue did not come up then. For high school however, when I wrote papers or essays, I used the Internet often for some of my sources. I never really thought about the sites being false, I just assumed and had the thinking in my head that they were trustworthy sources, unless it was a really extreme website that you could tell the information was false. Writing about it as an assignment though, along with talking about it some in class, it has opened my eyes to it. In the future, for whenever I write papers using websites as some of my sources, I will look into them more carefully then I would have done a few years ago. Because when you think about it, the information on a website is created by a person or persons, the trustability of the site just depends on how much work the site creators put into making sure the information they use is trustworthy.