Information, Reliability and Dissemination

- Where do you get information?

- How do you know it is reliable?

- How do you spread any ideas/thoughts you have?

There are many, many different ways of finding information. You can get the in books, magazines, on the internet, from other people, posters, newspapers, TV - everywhere. Almost anywhere you look there is some type of information. Even just observing how other people talk to each other, act around other people, you can find out information on what kind of a person the other is. 

It depends on the type of information but you could know if information is reliable based on the source it's coming from. As an example, for school you should trust websites where other people cannot edit anything posted there. You should also look at several different sites and see whether they have similar information. The more sites tell you the same thing, the more likely it is that the information is reliable. You should however, to ascertain, always see whether the figures seems realistic to you.

To spread my ideas and thoughts I do several things. Mostly, I talk to my friends, teachers, family members (anyone…) about what I think, just like a normal conversation is meant to be. Then they sometimes tell their friends, family etc. Another way that I spear my thoughts is, for example, exactly what you are reading now. My freshly started blog. The last way, which I don't do much, is posting it on facebook. By telling just one person you can be sure that at least 5 other people are going to hear about it. I think information spreads a lot faster that one thinks.

But, let's step back a little, in your opinion, what is information?