If I'm being honest, this weeks topic of User Generated Content was boring for me but that doesn't mean I did think of things when reading and watching the Ted Talk. User generated content is pretty much anything, anyone posts online. After reading the articles and watching the Ted Talk about user generated content it reminded me of how some people share or post about "news" without checking their credibility. That's the first thing that came to me while learning about this weeks topic. I also think its one of the bad thing if user generated content. Since anyone can post about anything online its even more important to check your sources credibility. For example, in facebook ive noticed a couple of people on my newsfeed share articles that aren't credible. You may ask, "well how do you know if they are credible or not", personaly I think some of the articles are pretty obvious. When I run into thoe types of articles being shared by people on my news feed it makes me want to tell them but I dnt because I feel like I might come off as rude or as a "know-it-all", which I'm not. Being a political science major, credibility is a huge deal. We ALWAYS have to check it or else itll ruin the paper or whatever we are working on. Okay so that's one thing I see as bad for user generated content. The good thing I thought about was that people get to share their stories online and if youre ever dealing through the same thing you can read about that persons experience and it might help you. For example, for a lot of legal questions about immigration there is a lot of forums out there of peoples experinces and maybe, hopefully not, that can come in handy for me. Oh and another thing, user generated content does make something like writing a paper harder than it should be. Like I said anyone can post anything online so cause of that, you should ALWAYS check the credibility of your sources.