Crowd Sourcing Blog Response - October 2

When I think of where we stand as a society at the present moment, I like to think that we are a generation of overly absorbed individuals in how we are constantly interacting with different parts of the world in the palm of our hand. This is known as a cell phone. Duh.
By owning this mainstream device, it's insane to think that we have friends that we consider friends but aren't really our friends. Kinda makes sense, right?
  
Well, anyways, by being in a network of people that are constantly connected with you, you are more likely to expand your knowledge of a subject you are interested in or even solve a crime.
In Katie's post she brought up how crowd sourcing has been used to identify murder victims, find missing folks, and solve a few crimes in the process.
Crowd sourcing has become a way that we can com together for a common cause and achieve a goal but that isn't how things may always work out. Being that crowd sourcing has been used to the benefit of folks it is seen as a great tool. Buuuuut the thing is that not everyone who participates is what you'd call "certified" to help. Like any other tool or social networking scheme, it works just as well as you want it to. And that all comes back to you looking into the validity of your sources while also enjoying this thing we call the Internet.