How many of us have come across instances in our life where we want to watch a new movie, want to try out a new restaurant, want to buy a new smartphone, want to look at the remedies for a minor sickness etc. and have gone online or looked up applications for reviews and comments on these aforementioned examples?
My topic comes in here. How many of these reviews actually resembled your impression of the movie/smartphone/restaurant? or how many of these comments actually helped you recover from the sickness?

In our daily life, there are many occasions that we want to try out a new restaurant that has just opened across the street, or watch a movie that has just been released. What do we do? Normally, we go on the internet or use applications (for e.g. yelp) to search other user reviews who have already experienced what we are inquiring about. On how many occasions are the reviews we find online, dependable and reliable? Here comes the subject of online credibility. How do we trust these online reviews and evaluations? As this topic is a concern with digital media for a researcher, student, and the common man, I felt this research could provide me with solutions that could solve this troublesome problem for a lot of people.

The purpose of my social media campaign is mainly to provide a basis for all amateur researchers starting out in college or high school. However, my campaign also reaches out to researchers of all ages that are looking for authentic information online and need help in differentiating the good information from the bad. My aim is to help people avoid this “garbage” that is available on the internet, and provide them with authentic information that they are looking for.

I began my research on Social Media. I first made a tweet on my original Twitter account to find out how many people actually had this problem (had instances where the internet had mislead them).
Additionally, I created a facebook page that explained this problem of online credibility and further provided solutions to it : https://www.facebook.com/OnlineCredibility
Lastly, I made a webpage: www.onlinecredibility.weebly.com that also listed some solutions that helped researchers, students, and the common man during their online searches for various subjects.

I hope my campaign achieved its aim: to provide solutions that helped people of all ages that needed a way to avoid the “bad” and harmful information that they readily encounter on the internet.