When can we trust websites?

I have studied some famous hoax sites and have tried to understand why we can’t trust everything we find on the internet.

From the websites I have looked at many are not very well designed as the background and color are the same for every page and some of the information has been fabricated such as the jackalope pictures, these pictures have been made in some kind of Photoshop as the image of the jackalope does not fit in with the background and some of the images are just plain crazy such as the jackalope being found in front of a busy Japanese building.

The signs we should look out for to show that the site is fake is the images, information that sounds too good to be true and some information that sounds down right stupid.

Some images will be fabricated a lot better then the website I looked at as they would use better programs which could cause many people to believe that the image is real making people take some of the information to be real as the image looks real but many people should compare the information to other websites to see if they say the same thing.

Some information will sound to goods to be true as it will involve the impossible as there may be something’s we may not be able to do for another couple of years and something’s that are just very, very, very unbelievable like http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html where people believe the government is trying to control their minds via mind control when most people now that there is now way someone can be mind controlled without very advanced equipment. Plus some people just make a website containing false information just to get people to look at there site so they will be noticed not to inform anyone.

Overall we can only trust sites that come from a reliable source like the government or universities as they are more likely to tell the truth than random people.

Websites used
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blhoaz.htm

http://dreamweaverstudios.com/moonbeam/moon.htm

http://www.dhmo.org

http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/9000/

http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html

http://www.sedftw.com/jackcon.htm