Social media has allowed everyday citizens to become authors, editors, and publishers of news and information. Do you believe that social media has increased the quality of news and information or decreased it?

Social media has allowed everyday citizens to become authors, editors, and publishers of news and information. Do you believe that social media has increased the quality of news and information or decreased it? In my opinion, social media has decreased the quality of news and information for a many number of reasons. One main reason is that in the times of today almost anyone can go online and write there own theories and create false rumours that could cause a lot of major issues world wide. Social media indeed has opened up the world of news and information making it very accessible to everyone in the world weather it could be in news broadcastings over the Internet even on billboards, but at the same time, it also makes readers to be less interested. The major problem is knowing whether or not the information that your brain is processing is true and accurate and can be trusted. You really have to be sure about what you are reading and whether or not it is from a reliable source or someone being bored and decided to create some random story that would capture the attention of millions.  There are many examples of false information on the web such as medical symptoms. Many people when they are feeling ill browse the web for their medical symptoms when they do find out what the web tells them they get scared make a doctors appointment and turns out to be something totally different and nothing to worry about.

Nevertheless, not all websites are to be blamed for having false information. Some websites has legit information that can be trusted and can lead you in the path that wont get you in trouble. So just because you read something on the web don’t go spreading it right away unless you know fully well that the information you hold is true.