the integrity of the internet

i was reading neil gaiman's blog... yes as always.
i haven't read it in three days since i was absent doing nothing unless you consider fighting bugbears, guards, giant spiders and outwitting an ogre something.
being sick at home isn't as nice as it used to be.
anyway, he asked Teresa Nielsen Hayden a question and in her reply she mentioned that : "any idiot can put up a website".
suddenly all my days of researching stuff on the internet came back to haunt me.
i even thought of a good thesis idea for it: create websites of different genres: science, leisure, sports, gaming, movies, computers and even blog sites and check which sites are most likely to be believed by the public.
the internet can be a very helpful place but it can also be very deceitful.
as an example, when the movie Blair Witch Project was being promoted, a website containing "evidence" about the movie's truthfulness came out as well.
a lot of people really believed that it was true though old recordings of murder or tapes of weird happenings found after the people involved mysteriously disappeared is an old writing trick.
a friend of mine even got into an argument with me because he truly believed it was real.
i never actually got to the website so we don't know for sure if i could also have been influenced. i did believe the movie wasn't true way before i watched it and when i did watch it i realized i was correct.
well mostly coz in my opinion i wouldnt run in the forest with a camera if someone was after me.
i was also mildly disappointed that i didn't get scared at all. i have an overactive imagination but nope, nothing bad came out. i didnt even get scared afterwards. not like the Ring series which made me rue the day i got the big tv(big enough for Sadako to go through).
of course my friend had to admit defeat when the actress showed up at the Golden Globe Awards.
dead people dont show up at the Golden Globe Awards.
what about blogs...
isn't it amazing that people could be living entirely different lives in these pages. i'm sure a lot of people who have blogs write about their experiences truthfully (some even got fired for complaining about their jobs) but there must be people out there who use this to create new lives.
who knows if what im writing is true?
i dont even know which of my friends read this or if they did how will thy tell people im spreading lives?
sometimes we get touched by things that aren't even true.
like in my email, i got message with the letter Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote as a farewell to the public called "A Genius Bids Farewell". Which turned out to be a hoax.
Blogs are people's novels about their lives or the lives they lead and in my opinion, the only kind of web page allowed to lie.
My only advice is to double check everything you research. Even websites that want to be truthful can get bad information from other websites and just because they say they are an expert doesn't mean that they are.
hehe happy surfing.