Essay 2 – How we may deal with internet junks?

As the development of the internet, all kinds of information have been accumulated more and more. People began to think about the problem it might bring us, like, how should we deal with all the information with “low-quality”, how to set a standard regulation to formulate all, how to tell good or bad of any piece of information if we have some kind of gatekeeper so on so forth.

I think, the most important problem is not to select the useful information among the mass, because we can always find the information we want (depend on the time we spent though), but how should we deal with the rest, those I call them internet junk. The method came into my mind is that, we may judge the value of any piece of information by the visit number and the evaluation by the visitors. Importantly, the evaluation I mentioned above is mainly not good evaluations but the bad ones. Because, if the information is really good for someone, he/she may not interested in value it high to recommend it to others, else the information is totally junk, it has more chances he/she will give it a bad evaluation. So, basically the time one information might exist is proportional as its visit numbers, but the evaluation aspect will also effect on it. For example, if the information has a good visit number while only few bad evaluation, it will stay long; If it has a good visit number while acceptable bad evaluation (for example, 25%), it will stay a bit long as well, because it might state opposite opinion against others; If it has a good visit number while a very bad evaluation (70%, let’s say), which I think probably is a junk information and such result will accelerate the disappearing period of that information. It may have lot of disadvantages, but it is the one I can think the best.

If people get use to this evaluation process, when they surfing on the internet, they are able to clean the internet environment themselves by a little effort that give a bad evaluation when meet internet junks. Hopefully, by doing this, we can have a virtual word with better satisfaction by most of the people. Internet is still a place that everyone can post anything anonymous and freely, but if it is a junk or useless to everyone, it will be deleted to somewhere and will not bother us anymore.

Mu Xiwei