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The reading by Nicholson Baker titled “The Charms of Wikipedia” is the funniest reading I’ve read in a long time. From the way the author writes down to the Wikipedia page alterations, it makes this reading unbelievably enjoyable. Baker makes a valid point on the success of websites in today’s world. I agree with his statement that online websites should have an addicting element to keep active users coming back. Now I wouldn’t sit and play watchdog on a page I have edited just because it is too easy for it to be changed and spammed by another bored and anonymous user.  While Wikipedia is a questionable source, it does provide useful information about many different topics. After all, it is still an encyclopedia.

One thing that surprised me, when reading the article was that,“More people use Wikipedia than Amazon or eBay.” But why is that? Well since, nowadays many people do research work the first thing that pops in a search tool is Wikipedia. But, yet since the information issomewhat not reliable we know that we must not rely on it. There are people, whose source will be Wikipedia because they so do believe that it is very useful information at first glance but the thing they don’t know is that it can be changed somehow. Well, since everything is changing in media we will realize that sooner or later we will have to deal with better and improved technology because we cannot always rely on the first things that was invented. Even networking changes because it improves the way people connect to each other and no longer be strangers but friends’ through the social networking. Social Media can be seen more clear now because of it improvements and new techniques to provide needs for people.