The funny thing is
I'm writing an essay which celebrates the exciting opportunities that blogging presents. Enabling all people with access to the internet to post their thoughts and opinions! How very exciting indeed.
However! I could be writing absolute nonsense here. I could actually be a fundamentalist. A feminist who's actually trying to find out who believes these vile things so I can track you down and hack your pretty faces to pieces.
This is not the case.
BUT! For all you know it is.
It's interesting, reading this article 'The Google Effect: Googling, Blogging, Wikis and the Flattening of Expertise', has made me sad for how much utter 'bullshit' we are exposed to, and how much unverified stuff we are unware is said bullshit.
A case in point is a relation of mine saying how vaccinations are the devil and going to kill us all and how her kids will not be put under risk like that, citing questionable resources and thinking she knows everything because the interwebs said so.
Another relation that is a Dr. responded to these claims, backing his argument up with scholarly articles and well, he's in the field with real information. But she's 'sticking to her guns'. It's really sad to watch. People are so dumb. Fo real.
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