Comments on: 10 Internet Legends Everybody Should Know

By: VIV

VIV — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:27:37 +0000

how long after posting this article before your home was raided?

By: David

David — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:26:25 +0000

I think what it boils down to (for me) is to treat everything with some degree of skepticism. Question and attempt to get to the answers that work for you. For example, no amount of reading the line “build relationships in social media networking” made sense to me until I opened my Facebook, Twitter, Twitter Directories and Delicious accounts did I realize that just sitting, making friends, following with hopes of getting followed, etc. does nothing until you actually spend time to dialogue with others on common interests.

By: Udegbunam Chukwudi

Udegbunam Chukwudi — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:08:31 +0000

Beware of self proclaimed Web celebs. You'll be shocked that they sometimes promote some pretty annoying forms of internet marketing and even Black hat tricks. Every Google search can be tracked back to you and will be used against you in court. I wasn't aware this was possible at all. It's about time we start rounding off f**ls who under the ANONYMOUS guise, write so much evil about other folks that they push them to the brink of suicide, drug addictions and what have you. Cyberbullies ain't excluded.

By: heng827

heng827 — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 08:09:42 +0000

Your article is very informative & I agree with most of what you said here. About the news, most of them are just “sensationalized” so they can get more people reading their articles.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:00:54 +0000

I agree with everything you said in that post. I think everyone should read this list to become more aware. Most of the people I interact with have no idea about the truths of the internet. Or even how to wade through the tons of garbage to find something worthwhile.

By: Jinky Doe

Jinky Doe — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:41:49 +0000

This is one interesting post. I like reading it. There’s one thing about privacy, if a person does not want to disclose information about him/her then don’t :). I do tweet regularly but a very limited info’s

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:25:28 +0000

By the way, I meant to mention that I think “google instant” may have created a new (temporary) legend who goes by the name of Jessie.
Do a search for Jessie James or Jessie Ventura, and notice the instant results (and images) that pop up as soon as you’ve finished typing the first word “Jessie” (at least here in California)… I can’t remember her last name and had never heard of her before today, but she may become this week’s SEO legend, or at least until google “fixes” this. :)

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:19:35 +0000

Your ending paragraph sums it all up… if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is (too good to be true).
I’d put it this way… the internet is no different than real life, except that you need to be twice as skeptical. :)
PS. or maybe even ten times as skeptical!

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:38:53 +0000

Don’t know how the comments have gone in that direction! I think ignoring all of that – you only have to watch Fox News for about 3 or 4 minutes to see how distorted the news can be by the media! It would be naive to think that foreign news is accurately reproduced. How is it not massive distortion by every network to report some celebrity gossip above 1000′s dying in a foreign disaster?

Anyway the post was about internet myths, and was clearly food for thought!

By: onreact

onreact — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:58:23 +0000

Eli: Again, it seems you do not read the article closely enough. I am not talking about Gays being murdered but murderers who happen to be gay and who get the death penalty in Iran. Also your unwillingness to use Google for yourself is disturbing.
Just check the names of those who go the death penalty. Most US sources fail to mention that these people were criminals at all. They focus on their sexual orientition as if it was OK to kill someone as long as you are homosexual.

This post is not about gay people being murdered, OK? So let’s end this futile discussion, basically me exlplaining you what the post is about again and again.
In case you believe that the Iranian judicial system is “murdering gays” I can’t convince you anyways. Then this here is even more futile.

Carl: No. So how many nuclear weapons does the US have? What do you think? And how many of them do you need to destroy the planet? Ever heard of the nuclear winter? Please don’t cite “sources” like Wikipedia please.

You will quickly find out that its really difficult to find out anything useful about those via the Internet because here the information is scarce. Nobody likes to talk about US owned WMDs and nobody besides the US army knows the whole truth here. The only nuclear weapons we hear on the Web all the time are the not yet existing Iranian ones.