INTERNET

People out there make the mistake of believing that the internet has official "reference" status. This mistake leads to other misperceptions like "LinkedIn" is an authoritative reference tool...or that uploading audio-video content to "YouTube" is "publishing" the material. Or that content in internet blogs...like "Google Blog"...is equivalent to publication. None of these misperceptions is true...and all of these beliefs are false. Publication happens in primary sources and secondary sources and third-rate sources...and then there is the internet. Primary publication involves a strict peer review process and it goes through professional editing and revising until it is passable as a primary reference...And primary and some secondary sources are archived and documented in professional databases that provide a professional imprimatur or symbol of professional review and professional status to the content. Most of these actual "reference status" archives are accessible only by paid subscription and they are very expensive and only University libraries have paid subscription access to them. "LinkedIn" and "Google Blog" and "YouTube" and "FaceBook" etc., they, all of them, have no editing standards and there is no professional review whatsoever of any of this freely available content, and people can put down whatever they want to...be it true or ridiculous and false on to these freely available internet pages. And the trouble with this situation is that most people believe the internet is a reference tool and they act out or make decisions in their life by reading the misleading pages of the internet and believing in things that are not true. And some idiots create their own false internet pages in an attempt to glorify themselves and make them believe that they are someone important. And to further propagate internet-based myths and misperceptions onward and onward.