They enter our email inboxes everyday: those helpful messages about the latest safety alerts, missing children, urgent health warnings, amazing photos, and so on. They look innocent and helpful enough, so you hit the forward button to protect your friends and family from the latest threat. We’ve all done it.
Unfortunately, the majority of those forwarded messages are untrue or at least misleading. However, there are several resources available to help you sort through these urban legends and online hoaxes. My favorite is Snopes.com because the authors provide quite a bit of information to back up why the information is true, false, or somewhere in between. Hoaxbusters and Hoaxkill are a few more good sites, and the library has several books available that are informative as well as just plain entertaining:
So, be wary of all that misinformation and check these resources before you forward that next message!
Unfortunately, the majority of those forwarded messages are untrue or at least misleading. However, there are several resources available to help you sort through these urban legends and online hoaxes. My favorite is Snopes.com because the authors provide quite a bit of information to back up why the information is true, false, or somewhere in between. Hoaxbusters and Hoaxkill are a few more good sites, and the library has several books available that are informative as well as just plain entertaining:
- The Cat in the Dryer and 222 Other Urban Legends
- The Cost of Deception: The Seduction of Modern Myths and Urban Legends
- Hippo Eats Dwarf: A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S
- Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking
- Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
- Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends
- Urban Legends: The As-Complete-As-One-Could-Be Guide to Modern Myths
- Spiders in The Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends
So, be wary of all that misinformation and check these resources before you forward that next message!
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