Honestly speaking, sometimes I do take what is on the internet as the truth without thinking much about it but because I don't really the news online so it seldom happen to me. Normally I get updates of any news from facebook. Facebook is now the most common media sharing page you can find. No longer do I need to go to any certain websites to update myself. Some news may be fake, some news may not. We can't trust the internet totally.
When we saw something interesting or disgusting, we might think of it as the real truth without further thinking about other possiblities because we're so delighted or disgusted to hear or learn about the news. But, when we see something not so interesting, nothing of your interest, just some boring news, we wouldn't care less about it because it doesn't grab our attention although it's the TRUTH!
Recently, on facebook, there is this so-called event about free facebook t-shirt and shoes. Suddenly, there's also i-phone! It's so tempting, isn't it? Besides, all you have to do is click attending, like their page, invite all your friends and write on the event "wall" that your're attending and your size. To me, this is obviously a scam. By just writing on the event "wall", how are they going to deliver those goods to you? They do not know where you live or what's your mailing address. So, how? Have you ever wondered about it? Most of the people there have fallen for it and some is just playing along.
What's the purpose of doing that, you ask? The purpose of them doing that is to get people to like their page. When they hit a certain number of likes they want, they can sell the page off at a very high price because you already have a lot of people supporting it even without them knowing. Starting a brand new page may take forever to get so many likes. Therefore, by creating that event like that can, you can have millions of like in just maybe an hour or so. They might have the "business brains" like what the Chinese would normally say but they have already cheated many people.
So, do you still want to take what you see on the Internet as the truth? Yes? No? It's self preference, anyway. It's your own choice but most importantly, check the source of it first before confirming it's the truth.
Ya, the spam in Facebook recently is a technique for selling a highly popular page in FB you say. Sound like we being used.
ReplyDeleteIn the end it is the receiver who decide what to believe. True I agree.
ReplyDeleteWell, I do agree Hui Zhen in saying that when we see something not so interesting, nothing of your interest, just some boring news, we wouldn't care less about it because it doesn't grab our attention although it's the TRUTH! Hence, nowadays many people become more depending on the resources which can be found on the Facebook. Actually, this is very dangerous and everyone will get themselves easily confused by these news.
ReplyDeleteyes,i'm agree with ur point,when we see something not so interesting, we wouldn't care less about it because it doesn't grab our attention although it's the TRUTH!Reader only will find some interesting news or article to read.Nowadays,student also more depend on internet,they will straight a way copy all the information and paste it to their homework and they don't care the information whether is correct or not....
ReplyDeleteThe receiver just have to be alert about the scams and pranks and choose what is the right information to believe. People get easily confused of the news scattered around Facebook and they really have to make their scope wider to make a judgement whether to believe a news.
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