Can You Trust the Information You Get Online?

If everyone is providing information, how do you know what information is valid? That’s one of the core arguments between the experts when it comes to Web 2.0.

Web 2.0 is the term that has been adopted for the new atmosphere that is emerging online. Instead of a technology and fact minded world, the net is becoming one about social connecting. The phrase “Web 2.0” was coined by Tim O’Reilly and is now used through out the industry.

I’m going to come down on the side of the need for some “expert” designation of information. This past weekend the speakers at the conference that I attended stressed the importance of backing up internet information with some form of print “because you can’t always trust what you get online.”

It’s a sad idea, and one that needs to be corrected if the internet is going to continue to be the source of information for the next generation.