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On the web, there are many "untruths" which are created by individuals, organizations, even companies to increase support financially, politically, or socially. Many of these are disguised, leading the preyed-upon consumers to believe what they have read or watched is the truth. There is one glaring untruth that leaves itself open to the naked eye, and still is deemed effective: the advertisements.

Now I'm not talking about a website that's sponsored by a company and has the logo on the site- those websites have those to minimize costs and avoid pop-ups and other such things. I'm talking about those annoying ads that flash at you and shout "SCAM" at you without needing to turn your volume up. How many times have you been told you're the 250,000th visitor or that your computer is at risk of being infected by a virus? It's all crap, and it's one of the many falsities that are enabled by the new Web 2.0 style of internet.

Now, when you click on these links and get taken to site after site of useless, time-wasting information, you realize you've been had. The PC Doctor Guide, featuring publications of computer catalogues, tutorials, and other computer-friendly scriptures highlights these fake ads and rips them apart, claiming that these ads show very poor taste, and minimize the credibility of the sites they piggy-back off of, reducing the hits they receive. This blog entry can be viewed here: http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?p=330. 

While these are very hard to avoid, I highly suggest highlighting sites with these ads and avoiding them whenever possible. Web 2.0 can be very useful and beneficial communally, as long as it is used responsibly.