Our lives are ever changing like technology. There are new advances everyday and technology will only continue to innovate us. Wikitravel is set up similarly to Wikipedia this allows their users to collaborate with information already provided on the chosen page. This site is meant to be a travel guide that allows all of those who have visited or passed through a destination. All of those who have traveled will have a different opinion based on experience. Having a wiki source can be found very useful to certain individuals. Just like Wikipedia it will take time to get down pact a specific monitoring system for submissions by individuals. The truth of the matter is that no matter what the source is going to be we choose what we will or will not believe.
We use the internet as a source to seek information about things we may or may not now about. It is evident that with new technology we can easily access the internet through many devices. What do we do when we don't know something? We look it up of course. Why not Google it, or check Wikipedia? "Designers of tools are responsible for providing useful and clear functionality, but they do not complete the job. As users of tools, we are responsible for integrating them into settings of use in such a way that they make sense for us."(Nardi & O'Day) Everything and anything can affect something. Contributors to the Wiki sites integrate with one another to produce some type of information. Now is this not the whole point of the wiki sites? We live in a world where things are constantly changing, who are we to tell another they are wrong? I would say that online writing can cause many issues. Online writing is a very useful source but there is always bad with the good. There are consequences due to online writing because you risk your own knowledge by trusting others not to infringe upon.
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