{"id":2933,"date":"2012-07-20T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:49","slug":"everything-americans-dislike-about-the-internet-in-one-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/20\/everything-americans-dislike-about-the-internet-in-one-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Americans Dislike About the Internet, in One Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is much to love about the Internet. But there is much, as well, to dislike — and\/or to be annoyed by, and\/or to resent, and\/or to mistrust. In late June, the Q&A community Mancx decided to put numbers to those Internet-borne vexations<\/a>. The firm conducted a survey of 1,900 American adults — adults who self-identified, it’s worth noting, as people who specifically search for information on the Internet. A group full of shoppers and cat-picture-seekers might have yielded different results.<\/p>\n

Per Mancx’s numbers, however, the Internet as an information source leaves a lot to be desired. A whopping 98 percent of respondents don’t fully trust the information available on it. Which is a good thing, overall — skepticism! — except that 94 percent of respondents also noted the many negative effects that the Internet’s bad intel can have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Everything Americans Dislike About the Internet, in One Chart – Megan Garber – The Atlantic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is much to love about the Internet. But there is much, as well, to dislike — and\/or to be annoyed by, and\/or to resent, and\/or to mistrust. The Q&A community Mancx decided to put numbers to those Internet-borne vexations by surveying 1900 US adults. The number one vexation? “Untrustworthy Info.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[680,263,685,682,684,681,683],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-dislike","tag-internet","tag-mancx","tag-marjorie-garber","tag-survey","tag-the-atlantic","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10022,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions\/10022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}