I used the internet to research and find information about the writer of my song, Tupac Shakur. I think I preferred the internet over going to the library for so many reasons. One being, I am lazy and I did not want to walk all the way (fifteen minutes) to campus to have some librarian look him up and only find me two books. Another is that the Georgia State University library has disappointed me so much in the short time I have been here at the university. Unlike the Georgia State University library, I can sit back in my own chair at home and look up (rather comfortably) things about Tupac. I was able to find an array of things from just typing his name. My search on him brought up things such as online biographies, and online sites to buy books about Mr. Shakur. Also, there were many sites that offered the lyrics to all of his songs. In addition, there are still fan based sites for him.
What I also did was look at music videos of Tupac’s most popular songs. One of the videos that I looked at was one for the song that my essay is about. I decided to go onto YouTube, because I think that it was good for me to get a visual, to better understand the message of his song, even if I felt the video was not a good enough visual for the song.
That is what I truly like about the internet, because you are able to gather a large amount of information about anything, by just using your fingertips. On the other hand, there are some problems with going on to online biographies (such as Wikipedia), and fan based sites, because not everything you will find on these kinds of sources, wikipedia especially, will always be hard core fact.
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Haha, it's okay, now you know, right?! But like you said, looking for information on biographies online and even wikipedia can be very unsound. Just as long as you know your GSU user ID and password, you can acess so much information through the library. That's not to say that we shouldn't go to the library, but convenience is lovely my dear!
I totally agree with your comment on how its easier to just look stuff up on the internet than to go tothe library and what not. Ain't nothing wrong with it.
The internet is excellent in terms of convenience, but I agree with Giavanna, how do we know when we've found a reliable source?
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