Never Trust The 'tinternet'

The affectionately called tinternet. The foundation of all things brilliant, especially this blog. The basis of social networking. The home of the email. The source of all knowledge. The answer to all questions.

Or maybe not.

Along with the many help sites, how-to's, yahoo answers, and wiki's, there seems to be a growing number of horribly rubbish answers.

People who seem to get a kick out of misleading the gullable [and, believe me, there are plently of those around]; the generally stupid, who think they're right; and the morons who don't know the answer to anything anyway.

Now we can't all be modern Einsteins, but it would help if those who don't know the answer would keep their trap shut. Until they know the answer. Then feel free to shout it from the rooftops. Which you probably will do. I would.

Anyway, the point of this entertaining post is to warn you of the growing threat of the internet. Not viruses. Not phishing ["hey, I think I caught a trout"]. Not cyber-bullying. Not fraud. Nope.

Misinformation.

Anyone can write anything on the tinternet. Anyone can write the wrong answers on the tinternet.

So next time you're looking up cheats for that pesky new xBox game, make sure you look in the right place.

There, that wasn't so hard, was it?