Do you trust/ believe everything in the internet?

@EdnaReyes (2622)
Philippines
January 15, 2011 7:21am CST
There's this info about Facebook closing down on March 15 and it circulated fast in the net. Then a denial from the FACEBOOK itself proved it to be false. There's many things in the internet, from light, heavy and shocking news. Do you believe everything in all the info you get from it?
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
16 Jan 11
hi ednareyes lost first response so try again. I do not believe much as some even sounds stupid so I research and snopse it all. water is not good for you, no n o water is good for, you should not do this,or oh yess you should do this, I do not believe much til I research it and send it through snopes.
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• United States
15 Jan 11
As an online user it is my duty and responsibility to make sure what I read is correct or not. So many cling on to so many quick notices that it spreads like a disease. Unless the site itself says they are closing we should really not continue to believe everything we read. However those that start such rumors get kicks out of it.
@zweeb82 (5653)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 11
Nah, we have to sieve through everything for it's our responsibility to do that. It's not only the internet as we know that not everything that comes out in the news is totally true as in not the whole picture right? The government only wants us to hear what we need to hear or what they want us to hear right? Haha!~
@dong88 (795)
• China
15 Jan 11
Internet,like our real world ,have a good and bad,and we believe it,but we have to learn to identify.
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@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
16 Feb 11
Yes, it's a matter of identifying of what's good and bad!Thank you for sharing!
@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
31 Jan 11
No, not really, There are just so many false information already coming from the internet and hearing something new would really make a person doubt the information. So what i do if i hear a news coming from the internet, i double check it and read more stuff about it offline.
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@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
31 Jan 11
Opps, sorry about the spamming. My internet connection went down for ahile.
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• Canada
2 Feb 11
I feel it depends on the what type of info, who is the source and what are they really saying... Ask myself is what i am reading really possible or realistic?... I never seen the Facebook news about it closing down but if you really think about it. Facebook is used by almost everyone. It has become one of the most used sites and is connected to many users daily for a numerous amounts of reasons. If I read something like------it seems a little to out there. BUT i over stand what you are basically saying and No i dont believe everything not even reviews or payment proofs. Anyone can make fake profile, blogs and basically a whole made up life.... I prefer to take advice from someone online if I get to know them a little better.
@derek_a (10874)
16 Jan 11
No, I don't trust everythning on the Internet as there are many people who put stuff up there from their opinions and not from actual research. However, I don't go along with what some people who say that if "you see it on the Internet, it cannot be true" There is a lot of valuable information on here and I will always find out truth for myself. _Derek
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@aerous (13434)
• Philippines
18 Jan 11
No, I don't trust everything. Because everything on the net is good or not possible true...
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@K46620 (1986)
• United States
17 Jan 11
Nope; just like I don't trust everything I read or hear
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@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
31 Jan 11
No, not really, There are just so many false information already coming from the internet and hearing something new would really make a person doubt the information. So what i do if i hear a news coming from the internet, i double check it and read more stuff about it offline.
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@nangisha (3496)
• Indonesia
18 Jan 11
Hi EdnaReyes!. I not really believing what I see in the internet especially when its comes from site I don't really know for sure. Were here has our own site to see trusted news so we usually go there if we wanna to know something and not to others site. I think in internet there are so many false news because its so easy to publish any thing even a lie. its up to us to choose for our own benefit.
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@hushi22 (4928)
16 Jan 11
i find it impossible that someone will trust and/or believe everything in the internet.
@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
16 Jan 11
Yes, I do believe it all. Why else would I be able to see it? I also believe all the things that say the other stuff is wrong. And that's okay.
• India
16 Jan 11
Internet has now become the primary source of answers to any possible questions we come across with. Just question anything and internet has the answer for it.but the answers provided are from various sources so its all upto us as to choose which answer is the most reliable answer. like wikipedia answers mostly give the true facts .
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@shalter (101)
• Canada
15 Jan 11
as per my personal experience internet is the most power full resourse for sacmmers to get identity theft, the worst thing is that few peoples still wanna take chance for diffrent oppertunities while they aware and know that some one is going to scamm with them , most of them lost instatntly and realize about mistakes and precautions which should be taken as a dafeguard but unfortunaitly there is bunch of peoples exist who dont want to understand and dont want to listen they just want to do and take chance by hoping something good.
@lazette (216)
• Philippines
15 Jan 11
That would be a big "no". Since my course entails researching, we are highly discouraged from relying on the internet too much. Even Wikipedia, which is constantly being used by everyone in the world, is not reliable as everyone thinks. I can go to Wikipedia right now and edit the page on DNA and make it appear to be all about Kentucky Fried Chicken, and it'd take an hour, if not a good number of minutes, for the Wiki staff to edit it. Net pages with lovely layouts and Photoshopped pictures that seem believable are enough to get someone's attention and believe the false info.
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@murtaza45 (173)
• India
16 Jan 11
internet are the all world network for the site dicussion to the matter very much time of the user and friends circle for me.internet socail network site for all user share the all the dicussion for at time of me.first give me and the for the dicussion for the friends and circuls for the time.
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@rushian09 (139)
• Philippines
16 Jan 11
Sometimes, internet is been used by people who only know is to give bad information. But in my opinion, if you want to find facts and true news. You must out your own newspapers in your country.
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@TwiKnight (107)
• Malaysia
16 Jan 11
Well, there was never really a notification informing us about Mr. Zuckerberg's officially closing down Facebook at the precise date, did he? If he did, I wouldn't be surprise to find an angry mob outside the man's house, pitchforks and burning torches raised. So, no, I don't buy every little thing in the internet. If I were to say that Justin Bieber had finally kicked the bucket yesterday morning, would you buy it? Course not, that's the end-result of producing rubbish music and making millions from it. ;)
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• India
15 Jan 11
Na... I think most of the things tht spread around the internet are rumours.. It spread like wildfire since everyone has instant access to it and the spreading increase further...
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