The article said it right! Web 2.0 is dangerous and deceiving. Anyone can go online and post their opinion, ideas and theories. Nobody is there to tell them what is right and what is wrong. The reader then comes and believes whatever has been said. He or she will use that information assuming it is right but ignoring that the information might be wrong and that the person who wrote it is probably not the most knowledgeable on the subject. There are some people that know that the information posted online is not the most accurate and that everyone can post whatever he or she wants.
However, the majority of the people, especially outside the United States, is not aware of this fact and will believe that anything or most of the things they find online is accurate and believable. They will use this information as legitimate and the wrong information will be spread quickly.
I especially believe that power of knowledge is no longer respected and I find it unfair. I believe that a teenager having the ability to change or challenge information made available by an experienced professor or scientist is wrong. Experts write facts, others tell opinions. There is no way the majority of the people can tell the difference. Every person who posts online and is not an expert and has no facts should have a disclaimer. This way people know what they are getting into, if they decide to use that information it is at their own expense, but at least with a warning.
On the other hand, having the freedom to share information is also beneficial. Before Web 2.0 people were restricted to the information made available by experts. The information released could sometimes be limited or controlled by their school, office or institution and they told only what they wanted their public to know; things were sometimes kept secret. Now everyone is free to write about what they want with no limitations.
Therefore, I believe that when a person is looking for information he or she should look for the facts written by an expert first, and then look for supporting or opposing views written by common people like us. We should not rely on bloggers or user generated content for facts but we should to find opinions about the subject. And lastly, before we believe what we read online we should check who wrote what we read and what type of credibility the person has.
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I agree that we should be cautious as to what we read on the internet but at the same time why should we trust anything more than the internet? Web 2.0 is just another way for us to communicate, another way to lie, get things wrong, and to tell the truth. I believe that we are able to tell in person as much as on the internet whether or not the information we are recieving is correct.
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