Online Credibility Quotes

It's important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.

In January 2012, Google Plus started to roll out support for nicknames and pseudonyms, but those registering with a name other than their real-life one must be able to prove that they have been using that alternative name elsewhere, either on the Web or in real life.

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

Being that my name is attached to Disney, especially when it comes to social media, I always have to be careful with what I post.

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

You don't even know if the person you're communicating with online is actually that person. And your persona on your social media - your Facebook or Twitter - may not be the person you are in real life. So then, who is the real person? Is it somewhere in between?

I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.

Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it's not just a magnet for the curious. It's a sinkhole for the gullible.

Being in the public eye, with the Internet - it's scary. You can put out too much, and it becomes a part of the pie chart of who you are. Things stick. And they never go away.

Media cycles end, but the Internet never forgets. This is a valuable lesson, especially for college students.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

There are two types of people on social media: people who want more followers, and liars.

People do tend to be extremely skeptical, especially of YouTubers - and rightly so.

Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information online - surely there are ways to design web-browsers to help with this task and ways to teach young people how to use the powerful online tools available to them.

Don't believe anything you read on Wikipedia!

The problem of online identity is expressed best in an old 'New Yorker' cartoon with a picture of a dog next to a computer, and the dog says, 'No one online knows you're a dog.'

It's important to build a personal brand because it's the only thing you're going to have. Your reputation online, and in the new business world is pretty much the game, so you've got to be a good person. You can't hide anything, and more importantly, you've got to be out there at some level.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

Regardless of what is on the Internet, I'm actually only 29 years old - and holding.

The power of the Internet is also its limitation - it provides access to large amounts of information without providing guidance on how to sort out what is credible and what is not.

You can find rumors on anything on the Internet. I think I could even find rumors on the Internet that I get too worked up in games.

Don't ever, ever try to lie to the internet.

If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.

YouTubers are not taken as seriously as the written press, which is strange.