MODULE 7: Computer Hoax Categories

Question:

      There are still enormous sources of misinformation on the World Wide Web, so how can you determine what is good information and what is bad information?

Answer:

To determine what is good information and what is bad information about the enormous sources of misinformation on the World Wide Web are the following:

Good Information:

• The information must be from reliable sources such as .edu, .gov and maybe from a forums thus flood of ideas are there.
• The information given is from the known author, and has a good background.
• In a given website it allows comments and suggestions so that readers can also give idea about the given information, thus it gives hint to the other readers that the information posted is reliable.
• The information given is based on the original author or researcher and it must be acknowledged.
• The write-ups of the information given are precise and must don’t have any errors such wrong spelling, and wrong grammar.
• The website of a given information must virus free, thus we can conclude that it was not destructed by the virus.

Bad Information:

• It gives hint to the reader that the information posted is bad in which the website is not well constructed.
• It gives information but never acknowledge the real author and it didn’t cite where the information come from.    
• It doesn’t allow readers suggestions, and comments.
• Information from the given website is out of date.
• It has a lot of errors such as wrong spelling and grammars.
• The website of source of information have viruses, thus we can verify that the information given is not reliable.

However, it is said that “Good information can be hard to find…” so we as a reader and a researcher must be careful on taking information from the web.