Emily Explains Wikis

Ah, wikis. I enjoy the idea of wikis. It gives me joy that I could be so lucky as to add irrelevant information to topics of great importance and lead the general public astray. There seems to be a fair amount of controversy/general discontent surrounding wikipedia and wikis in general. Get over it! Does everyone really believe every word they read on the internet? Really? Think for example when you have read something on the internet such as "Dinosaurs have come back and are invading Kansas." Did you believe it? If you did, you were certainly wrong, but it would be awesome nonetheless. Perhaps not as much for Kansas but you can't win 'em all. The idea of a website made up of little pieces added by hundreds, nay thousands of people is pretty cool, as long as we remember that we are not always right all the time and do not depend on it for anything other than general questions. I think it is pretty cool that cities/towns would have a public wiki because it seems like such an effective way of posting many events that the general public would otherwise not know about. The same principle applies to the book review wikis. It's like a huge book group where you never have to decide on one book to read or choose a location in which to discuss said book. On that happy note I shall now end this totally irrelevant and generally unhelpful post and move on to tackle the beast that is Myspace.