{"id":45262,"date":"2013-08-26T19:07:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=45262"},"modified":"2013-08-26T19:08:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T19:08:53","slug":"everyone-on-the-internet-has-an-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/everyone-on-the-internet-has-an-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone On the Internet has an Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h4>Everyone On the Internet has an Agenda<\/h4>\n<p>By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">Far too often agendas on the internet are confused with &#8216;gospel truth&#8217;. Arm yourself with healthy skepticism.&#8211;PC Pitstop<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Stop spreading manure<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps most importantly, stop believing it.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, there\u2019s been another brouhaha. This time, it\u2019s over reports that Google blatantly admits that you should have no expectation of privacy whatsoever when using their services. The internet went crazy. Many sources seemed to say, \u201cHow outrageous! We told you so! Google is evil!\u201d Mainstream news outlets picked up stories from smaller publishers and they all seemed to confirm the entire, sordid mess.<\/p>\n<p>Except the internet was wrong. Manure, to use a polite term, was being spread far and wide fast.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where things get complicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has an agenda<\/p>\n<p>In the popular television series House, Dr. Gregory House is often quoted as saying \u201ceveryone lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the internet, a similar statement can be made: everyone has an agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Every website, news organization, and every person sending an email, publishing a newsletter, or just posting a comment has an agenda of some sort. They have something that they want you to do, think, or become.1<\/p>\n<p>All too often the agenda being promoted is \u2026 inconsistent (for lack of a better word) \u2026 with reality.<\/p>\n<p>Salesman with an agendaIn other words, the information that you present is almost always colored by that agenda. People highlight facts that support a particular agenda, while facts that don\u2019t are conveniently minimized or completely ignored. In the worst case, people even fabricate \u201cfacts\u201d to support their agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, not everyone, but some people on the internet actually lie. Perhaps more than you think.<\/p>\n<p>And to be honest, we all do it. Not lie, that is (I would hope), but we color what we say and do with the data that supports our beliefs and opinions. Often to the exclusion of  objective evidence that might point out the unthinkable\u2026<\/p>\n<p>That we are wrong.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/askleo.com\/stop-spreading-manure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article Continued Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>This excerpt appears with permission from Leo Notenboom<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/agenda150.jpg\" alt=\"agenda150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Far too often agendas on the internet are confused with &#8216;gospel truth&#8217;. 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