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Wikipedia"Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see?" I agree with this quotation and think it can go two ways. This is because I believe people shouldn't just cut people off, you should listen to everyone's opinion, and just take any advice you feel is necessary and will help you in the long run. I can't just cut people off and ignore them, because how would you ever learn anything in life if you don't believe or listen? For example, someone told me Barack Obama was the first black president, but he's not doing his job!" So I listened and said, "yes, Barack is the first black president, but him not doing his job, I can't say, because you don't know why Obama specficly makes certain decisions. I know right now, you don't see it, but little by little he's making a change!" It's not good to believe everything you hear, but at least listen to what the other person has to say and maybe both of you can learn something from each other. The reason I don't believe half of the things I see is because I never know if what I'm watching is right or wrong? Is it even real or fake? For example, many people in the world are on Myspace, Twitter, and Aol instant messaging, but they don't know what they signing themselves up to. People say Tom made Myspace, but did you ever seen Tom on T.V, Youtube, or even being interviewed? I know for sure, if I was to start my own website and everybody in the world is signed up, including Entertainers,Political People, and even the President, I would want to be noticed and get recognized for my invention. In May 2005, Wikipedia created a article about John Seigenthaler, which contained false information. This article was posted by an anonymous person, and John Seigenthaler contacted Wikipedia and it was deleted by September. John Seigenthaler wrote something for USA Today, he said, "and so we live in a universe of new media with phenomenal opportunities for worldwide communications and research, but populated by volunteer vandals with poison-pen intellects. Congress has enabled them and protects them." After the incident with Wikipedia, the internet service providers are given under Federal law versus editorially controlled media like newspapers and television. They also not allowing unregistered users to create new pages, so they can trace you and also see what people have been updating. In the article A False Wikipedia, it shows why people shouldn't believe everything you hear or see. John Seigenthalar was the assistant of Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. During a small period of time people thought John was involved with Robert Kennedy Assassination and his brother Bobby. John Seigenthalar replied to this and said, "I have no idea whose sick mind conceived the false, malicious "biography" that appeared under my name for 132 days on Wikipedia, the popular, online, free encyclopedia who's authors are unknown and virtually untraceable." This doesnt make any kind of sense, why would someone would lie, or add more to the story? The person that wrote the story probably was told the story from someone else and couldn't exactly say it as he was told, and paraphrased it. In this VIDEO, it shows people you shouldn't believe everything you see, until you have one hundred percent proof. In this video a guy sees a car parked in his garage, instead of him asking, he just took action, and ended up looking like a fool. The guy was just coming to give the his girlfriend or wife a car she won, but he thought otherwise and ended up wrong. Due to John Seigenthaler situation, now when signing up to any website, you have to give a lot of your personal information. So,what happened to John Seigenthaler won't ever happen again! Now after you have read this, do you "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see?"
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