Reliability in Social Computing

Social computing:

To start with this blog, I wanted to explain more what social computing is and how it is affecting our lives. Social computing is the interaction between people using computers and social media in specific. People and communities communicate and share relevant content using social media to create social groups over the internet. Social computing has a big impact on communities and it is helping to solve common problems. Posts on social media may positively or negatively affect people depending on popular social computing activists and their content. Different social computing activists in social media support causes and aims and their content accuracy may be affected by the goals they want to achieve.

Reliability in social computing:

Social computing is evolving and taking control of people’s actions and decisions. News on social media is generated by different bloggers and activists who may not check the credibility of their posts. News spreads fast and readers are the only judge on the truthfulness of topics they read. Awareness must be raised to give followers more understanding on how to evaluate news as some can be fake, and help publishers on social media to be more aware of fake news and the importance of checking their posts and their reliability before posting them to the public. As those social computing publishers are normal users and do not have any previous experience creating and checking the news and considering the consequences of their posts. They first need to understand that these posts published by them can deliver Misleading information which may have a massive influence on society. On the other hand, learning how to put relevant and useful content in a post can give more power to social computing and its role in publishing news to readers.

Sharing reliable information:

When news and information become reliable and trusted on social media, social computing turns into an effective way of sharing information which is nowadays very useful to many people for education, business, and other purposes. Social computing is one of the fastest ways to reach readers and put communities together. It is helping in deferent aspects of life and solving common community problems. Educating publishers and admins of popular social computing platforms will give these platforms more value to followers. Making researches is a good way of creating more accurate and reliable information. These changes made to enhance the reliability of social computing will make social computing a trusted and preferable platform to share and read information.