The Information Age: A Beautiful Irony

Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google, and ThoughtCo. Nowadays, everyone is provided with the opportunity to learn, share, and be a content creator through various forms of social media. As everyone says, we now live in a world where knowledge is widely available and in just one click of a finger, answers to the most complex questions would appear.

Seeing talented people post about their abilities and passion in Facebook is both interesting and inspiring because it provokes the audience to also do well in the things that they want to pursue. It is also an amazing thing that there are different online tutorials about Chemistry, Literature, and even makeup which can be watched for free. All the available information in the endless universe called the Internet does two things to me, as an audience. One, it makes me feel that since every question that I have is probably searchable and answerable by the Internet, then I must ask and ask more questions and explore the world even more. However, it also triggers fear upon me because there are so many information, that I do not know what to believe anymore.

I speak this from experience. Sometimes, I would search about a specific question and get two (or more) different answers from different platforms. How then can I know if those answers are indeed true and not mere lies or incorrect views of a certain concept?

That is my inquiry. What should I believe? What should I not believe? When I read something from the Internet, is it necessarily true?

Truly, the Information Age is a beautiful irony. For one, it provides me with relevant and correct information. But second, it also provides me with the complete opposite.