In the society we live in today, our information sources are more convenient to us because of the internet. The Internet is a very popular source of information to people because you can do just about anything you want on the internet, jobs, marketing, chatting, play games, banking and even go to school. Although, could habitual usage of the internet be the down fall of people’s “critical thinking” skills? It may, because the information is so easy to search for. Information t is practically handed to you. To be cliché’ anybody even a monkey could google lets say astrophysics and get results. Sometimes it’s not always the best choice to rely on the internet as your number one source of sufficient and accurate information.
Unlike back then when people used to only have one source which was the Library. With the library you’re almost sure to have 100% accurate information. This is most likely because the info that was documented in these books were from scholars, and educated people with degrees that are professionals at knowing their stuff. Whereas nowadays things like “Wikipedia” is not recommended by many teachers/professors because it is not an “official” source. These sources are just documented by regular people like you and me. On the other hand some of these internet sources that were written by ordinary people could have a possibility of being even more reliable because these facts may have been written from firsthand experience which is something to take into consideration. For example I look up certain guitars, what if the person who documented this information on Wikipedia was a guitar specialist? In the case I would definitely trust that source of info.
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