Nowadays, the use of internet and the use of different gadgets become popular especially to the young teens aging from 12-19 years old or what we called the youth. They are fond of using internet because they use different social media like Facebook, Twitter and many more. Even for their assignments and outputs in the school, they use Google to search for information they need, but they didn’t know if that information is legit and can be trusted. We all know that there were too many fake news and false claims or misleading informations that are circulating online. This will greatly affect the youth since they were the ones who were always using internet. These are the possible effects of misleading and false claims circulating online to the youth.
Fake news is the term that can mean different things depending on the context and it is also often called parodies. It promotes fake information to a certain idea or events. Some youths believe in this misleading information online. These will affect their knowledge about the certain idea and it will lead to confusion if what is real information and what is fake. There is also the possibility that these fake news will spread easily because youths nowadays are fond of using social media in which they share information. Sometimes, these misleading and false claims circulating online are the cause of misunderstandings and make them quarrel and debate online. These misleading informations will lead to the ignorance of the youths.
Therefore, misleading and false claims circulating online will have a bad effects to the youth. To avoid believing to such fake news, we must know the validity of the information and also know the source of information if it can be trusted. We must also become disciplined in what we are sharing online because this may affect the others.
What do you think? Can we always rely on informations that we can get online? Of course not! Just be wary of fake news and misleading information circulating online. Don't just rely information online therefore we can still get legitimate informations from books, newspapers and magazines. There are so many things that we can get on those things. Remember, DON'T GET DECEIVED BY FALSE CLAIMS AND MISLEADING INFORMATION.
That is why it is very popular to me coz I am in between 12-19 years. Now I know. Or it also a false claim? Hmm