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# Filter and Label Your Email 
## Gabriella Playa 

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After reading Claire Wardle's article "Understanding Information Disorder", I realized that there are clickbait titles in a majority of my emails, mainly on Gmail, rather than my Northeastern email. I did notice I was subscribed to emails from Forever 21, though, which brought me to create my final rule. ![](https://i.imgur.com/CN0MQGe.png)

Reading these articles is disturbing because it feels as though they are diagnosing the people using technology with certain types of "disorders." I believe it's disturbing because it's true. Imposter websites, scam emails, sometimes so believable we feel they warrant a response, are taking over our daily internet searches. This "disinformation", as it is coined in "Understanding Information Disorder" is more harmful than we believe it to be. 

We would believe that "filter bubbles" are strong enough to block out or at least dismiss this information as false, but because recent generations have become so drawn to the "clickability" of links, we are apt to falling into these "fake news" areas of the internet, if that is even the word for it. 

I know personally many of my peers use social media instead of actual, credited websites for our "news."For example, a lot of people actually use TikTok as a credible source for all rumors and gossip they believe are "news." This is disturbing because it only furthers our case of "information disorder." 

Danah Boyd continues in a straining attempt to get our generation to check our sources before we believe in her article, "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" I think her point of view that it is not only our right, but our responsibility to question the media is really refreshing. Many of my peers are quick to believe what they see on social media before they begin to check the reality of the situation. This problem is bigger than we believe it to be, because it has also seeped into more important parts our society. 

"Your identity shapes your media. There’s just one flaw in this logic: Media also shape identity." Overall, we as a society have gained a lot from the advances in technology, we have also lost a lot as well. We have lost trust in the media as well as each other; that in itself is quite the loss. We must search far and wide for information of value, and not just the first piece of infromation that comes to our screen. 