Don't believe everything you read
Two days, I noticed a lot of my friends were posting that July 5, 2010 was the day that Marty McFly and Doc Brown blasted into the future in the movie, Back to the Future. Ivanka Trump isn't one of my friends, but she posted it as well. This was getting around. People were celebrating it as "Future Day." These were smart, web savvy people.
It was a hoax. A company altered a screen shot from the movie and put an e-mail out there. It spread quickly and people fell for it. Makes you think. Or at least it should make you think. People are now spreading news faster than ever before, yet what are they really spreading?
Back in the early days of the Web being public ( aka the mid-1990s), I remember there was a mantra out there not to trust web information. Check it three times before believing it because there were no controls over content. A decade and a half later, that has reversed. People believe every thing they read on blogs, web forums and twitter feeds. Mainstream news (aka edited work) is met with extreme caution now.
What do you believe?
It was a hoax. A company altered a screen shot from the movie and put an e-mail out there. It spread quickly and people fell for it. Makes you think. Or at least it should make you think. People are now spreading news faster than ever before, yet what are they really spreading?
Back in the early days of the Web being public ( aka the mid-1990s), I remember there was a mantra out there not to trust web information. Check it three times before believing it because there were no controls over content. A decade and a half later, that has reversed. People believe every thing they read on blogs, web forums and twitter feeds. Mainstream news (aka edited work) is met with extreme caution now.
What do you believe?
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