Doubt com or dot com?
Internet is an ocean of information. Many websites
on the internet are used for searching and getting information on various
subjects. It is considered as the fastest and the cheapest source of information.
The subject expands as whether the information given on the internet and the
ways used to give that info are good and authentic or not.
Many websites are visited day-to-day. When we try to
get something from any site, it may want us to enter some vital info like email
id, name and address, account details, credit card info, etc. These things do
not seem to be necessary for the information. Many a time, websites want us to sign in through Facebook or Twitter or any social site id and password. The pages
are not redirected to the profile and have great chances of putting username
and passwords on these sites.
Information given on many websites which are mostly
used by people like Wikipedia, different Blogs, different social discussion
sites are not completely legal and authentic. But people use them directly in
their discussion, writing materials, journals, projects, etc. This causes loss
of truthfulness and creates doubtfulness.
There are many cases seen where people try to buy
stuffs from internet through online sites and lose money over thieving offers. The
credit card info and other personal details entered at some Travel Planning
site get used by thieves for illegal things. Even some click-able links in your
spam can hammer your security and take out saved password information.
There is a current trend of blackmailing and luring
kids and teens through social networking sites. They have less ability to
think, act and respond to such things and hence get easily trapped in these
traps.
So, the overall situation is Internet is not as
secure as it should be and the information given here is not as authentic as it
should be. The sites are creating doubts over their use, authenticity,
security, validity, information they provide, services they give, information
they take from us and their policies or actions.
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