Blog Post 2

Crowdsourcing plays a big role in the way we find information, but it has it’s obvious positives and negatives. The first con everyone thinks of is Wikipedia not being a reliable source. Although there is so much truth, there are just so many contributors that it is near impossible to verify if everyone’s two cents are factual. But, after thinking about my own behavior when posing a question online, I realized another reality of crowdsourcing. Unknowingly we limit our sources because we have bias on which link we even choose to click. For example, if I wanted to look up how to do a hairstyle and a bunch of videos came up, there is a much higher chance I would pick the video of a Youtuber I know over any other random one. This goes for any topic or platform, and it all goes back to the opinion leaders we put our trust in. It seems like when we are just blindly surfing the internet that is when we would find new perspectives, but even then it is hard to branch out. Take the Renegade example on Tik Tok. Basically every single person on the app, including myself, learned the dance, and because Charli D’Amelio is the opinion leader in that space everyone watched her videos to teach themselves. Nobody even realized she was not the original creator because they were just going with what was familiar.