We live in an age where almost any question we may have can be answered with a quick Google search. Even though we know that some websites, like Wikipedia, may not be completely reliable, we generally accept Google’s first response as fact and carry on with our lives. I was really interested in the section of True Enough in which a photo shopped picture of an American soldier with two Iraqi boys ended up on the internet (page 78). While Manjoo talks about how many different versions of the picture surfaced on the internet and the soldier himself explained what was happening in the original image, it is still difficult for me to decide which story I believe. Society today tells us to believe what we see, what is right in front of us, but with the technology we have, how can we decipher what is real and what is not? True Enough is really making me think about what we should and should not trust in the media and I am looking forward to taking a closer look at what I see and read about online.
I am with you Soph. Ever since we started talking about how much access people actually have to what we post on the internet, it is a bit scary. Has it refrained me from posting my thoughts? Certainly not, I have nothing to hide. But it does make some people uneasy at how easy it actually is to find out anything and everything about you relatively quickly.
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