If it's on the internet, then it's true! - Don't be naive with contents you receive

Few months ago, I remind a very interesting and funny animation that I found on YouTube about 2 years ago (check the video below), a criticism that discussed, with very good mood (slightly acid, but fair), a bad but yet very common behavior in our society, the one to give immediate credit as truthful info to any article or news from websites / pages, communities in social media or even those news spread in messenger apps for mobile devices, without even searching carefullly right for their main sources.

Last year, here in Brazil, we were shot, during the election season, by an avalanche of fake news out of the ordinary, and they are still there, even if laws are created and / or filters got improved with rules end procedures to input certain limits to messages sent in apps, being fake news, rumors or supposed leaks, all those who already had or happened to have / created some filter not only digital, but behavioral to avoid or ignore these annoying things, certainly lived (and live) more peacefully.

Ok ok, of course I know that there are reliable sources we can rely on, but unfortunately, the number of biased sources with false information is much higher than we expect.

So it's all about how to guard against this kind of behavior, to create the habit to seek for more reliable sources, and warn thoses less informed ones not to get carried away by any "information" read out there, at first glance. Because out there are still lots of "sources", full of biased, sensational content, and deliberately false or adulterated (partially false anyway).

Still, under this same subject, I also remind this old phrase here: "Text without its context, is pretext for heresy/subtext.", that leads me to identify and highlight another related critical issue in information sharing, that is: the one distorted by misunderstandings, in other words, when information itself starts to loose its effect by misinterpretations, it gets separated from its real context and slowly or quickly becomes a monster, an awful chimera. It's like feeding, unconsciously, a hungry baby monster, that will later grow, be big and starts to devour and destroy you and anyone or anything in its way.

Wanna have some practical example? That unfortunate moment when one or more employees listen to a random and isolated conversation, then bitten by curiosity, they end up moved by an itch to spread the information and it is rapidly changing and losing its original meaning, because, in the end, there was no real interest in knowing what the original subject was actually referring to.

After that, the worst comes as consequence of those reckless mistakes as it:

• Can cause moral damage to someone or more people;
• Risk of exposing informations of confidential nature, although much adulterated;
• Gossip and ...
• Generates waste of time.

Such a misfortune can easily be generated in times of procrastination, but it is worse when the mistake is conscious and intentionally done, still, one day, it hits the fan.

We must take great GREAT care to avoid not only making a misunderstanding of something we read, seen or heard somewhere else or from someone, but also not to share and nor even react immediately, without first knowing the true story behind it.

For an internet navigation less toxic, but accurate and healthy.