I was surprised to find this chart and learn that people are counting how many true and how many false stories are posted to Facebook. (I am sure other social media sites are experiencing this phenomenon.) People post a story and mark at as “TRUE” whether there are objective facts to confirm what has been said.

Today we live in a day where more information comes at us than we can possibly remember. When you read, a statement look to see if the writer references any factual independent sources to verify their writing. Posting on the internet is easy and relatively inexpensive (compared to printing books) which makes it a ripe forum for people to post their opinion as fact. When I read something on the internet I try to verify what I have read before I pass it along.

I wish everyone did this the result would be a lot few falsehoods filling the screens we read!