Social media is great for so many things. We like sharing, commenting and learning so much stuff. There is a lot of information. We know everything as-it-happens, in real time.

The problem we have right now is credibility. Living in real time, it is extremely hard to know what is true and what is false.  Before, when we learned the news through newspapers, the information was validated and everyone was trying to make sure the informations were  accurate. This is no longer the case.  We have experts and people who think they are experts. What makes you trust someone? How do you verify what is true and what is not ? You can’t. Or at least, it’s really hard, so most people do not check. Thousand of tweets every minute, thousand of people saying different things, whatever they want.

When disasters occurs, people want to feed on information. They want to know everything as-it-happens.  People are more emotional and might believe something not accurate.

In this real-time era, always remember to double check, and remember there is two sides to every story.