Information Ecologies

From my understanding an ecology is the relationship between organisms and there environment. And information is knowledge, thoughts, ideas, facts which are derieved from study, experience and can be communicated.

Now to me, when we combined the above it pretty much explains what the internet is. The internet is an information ecology. The internet allows people (organisms) to gain information through sharing of studies, ideas, facts and so on. 

However one major issue is, that when using the internet (Information Ecology) we need to take into account at all times just how accurate the source of the information being shared is. As everyone who has access to the internet, has freedom of speech, so often the information can be false or misleading as it wasn't supplied by a valid source. 

Once internet users become to understand how the information ecology can work, and how sharing of information and contributing, we will not be able to fully utilise and make full use of the internets capabilities. But once it becomes more understood, if used correctly, it will benefit our society.