I’m so glad that you have heard good things about the internet! It is very fascinating and makes it so easy to get information. Deciding whether the internet sites are reliable and credible can be tricky sometimes. Almost any person can post a website, which can ultimately provide you with unreliable, and biased information. This puts a hardship on you to find the quality of each website you use. I will give you a few examples of how I determine whether a website is reliable or not, or if I would choose to use a website.
One thing I look for on a website is the author. The different ways I look into this is to look for “more about the author” this will be at the top, bottom, or sidebar of a webpage. If there is no author of the webpage, I wouldn’t use it. You will look into the type of information the author provides, such as their expertise on the subject. You can look into if they have any education, or if they have any experience in the subject you are looking into. Try googling (a web page for looking things up) the author and see what else the author has written, see if they have any reviews, and look into what their name comes up in to see if that site may be reliable or not.
Another way I can see if a site is reliable is who published the site. The suffix on the domain name (the three letter part that comes after the website and after the “.”) can say a lot about a website. This doesn’t guarantee reliable source but you like to look for .gov, .org, or .edu. These are normally a more reliable source. .org= nonprofit; .edu= educational; .gov= government and the most common .com= commercial.
Then you just want to ask yourself questions. What is the main purpose of the site your visiting? Are they selling things? Are they providing general information? Are they trying to persuade you to their point of view? You do not want to use a biased webpage. There will