During the Sandy storm I was watching the live feed on Twitter to stay updated. One of my favorite things to look at are pictures because I'm a very visual person. But the problem I have with Twitter is that some times I'm looking at a very rule looking picture but it is fake. The picture to the right is an example of that. This picture doesn't look as real as some of the others but still I have never seen a hurricane take place so I don't know what it looks like in person. I know this isn't really Twitter's fault because they aren't posting the picture, the users are. But I still wish there was a way that Twitter could tell me, "Hey this picture is fake." I also think it is kind of weird that during a national disaster people are posting fake pictures. I get that people want to be dramatic and make jokes but to the rest of the world looking at the pictures we don't know what to believe. Twitter did do something to react to this. There was an article posted of the top five or 10 fake pictures of Sandy. There were some outrageous pictures and others were normal looking ones that could have easily taken place. I guess I just don't understand the reason for the "real looking" fake pictures. I guess what I'm saying is don't post fake pictures and pass them off as real. If you have a cool picture to post just tell people it's fake. Sorry for the rant guys. I just find this so annoying.
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