We are suppose to me in the Information Age. The Internet was originally designed to share information between Universities, the military, and other institutions, and in that it was a brilliant idea. Today Universities, the military and other institutions do use the Internet for its original purpose. The thing is the Internet has failed when it comes to society as a whole, it has been corrupted to such a point we should call this the misinformation age. Here is why.
To me information is data that is useful, verifiable, and factual. This information could be scientific data, economic data, sports scores, even an email with a picture or party invite; all useful. Now as long as it is factual, verifiable, and useful it is information. Now the moment it is not factual, verifiable, or useful to someone for a productive purpose it is misinformation and damaging. Example from sports: If someone reports a game score that says a certain team won by a particular margin when they lost or the score was wrong then that is misinformation and somewhere some sucker will dodge his bookie when he actually won $1000.00.
Science: if a scientists were to claim he could create gold from lead but not describe how so his method could be verified then it is not valid data or information.
Personal : If a person sends a pic of themselves in uniform with the metal of honor when they never served. Misinformation and a bold face lie.
When a politician says they can do something for the country without talking about the plan, pretty much misinformation in the disguise of a tap dance.
The problem here is that there is a person running for president who is taking advantage of people believing everything they see on the Internet and his name is Trump.
He gives misinformation of his finances, his business dealings, his racist and sexist views. He dodged the draft but shows pictures of him in a private military school's uniform and passes it off to people like he served in the armed forces. He says Trump University had a A rating by the BBB when it was pretty much way below that. Hell, I wish I could have passed bad grades in school as A's I'd have had a 4.0 GPA. He has had 4 bankruptcies. If a service member filed for bankruptcy they pretty much get kicked out or at least be in serious trouble. His books could have been written by a used car salesman ( I have read a view, they suck. Why did I read them? Comedy relief)
I'd bring up his divorces but that can happen to anyone and it should be attributed to stuff happens.
Let is just say Trump's image is a façade of misinformation used to build him up into the statue of the perfect president/ God and many people are falling for it because they either don't verify the facts, don't care, or are the type that believe if you post a message in your status on Facebook Bill Gates or Mike Zuckerburg is going to give you money. ( let me say if you feel for that you should just uses your computer to play solitaire and stay off the internet because you will fall for anything and likely get run over by the information superhighway. No offense but if you did fall for that you may need to consider not voting as you obviously cannot make good decisions.) now if this upsets you, well tough. Removing me from your friends list is simple. I may not like your political choices but I won't remove you. I may think your political choice is stupid but it does not mean I think you are stupid as a person. My internet joke about the status thing was a joke as I find the thing nonsense but if it were true to get money that easy, cool. All I ask is you look past the facade, verify the data, check your values, admit the facts, consider the dangers of a candidate whose platform IS based on fear and hate, weigh how much you are willing to sacrifice for that candidate and if that candidate would do the same for you. I don't think any of the candidates would sacrifice much of anything but I believe Trump would not, most egomaniacs and so called "privileged people " would not.
