The risk of using internet sources for a research paper is the lack of accuracy. There are so many websites about the topic and everyone can create one based on his/her personal perspectives and ideas. Therefore, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish the right from the wrong. When I first entered my topic in google, which is the social networks' privacy and its effect on stalking, there were millions of results. It only made things even more complicated. I run through the first ones that had interesting titles. However, this was not as interesting as it may seem for some of them. For example, there is this one: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-social-networks-bring . It is like a forum where someone stated his opinion and the others answered him. There was this controversy and those people were anonymous, which made the website innaccurate for a research paper.
Fortynately, I could find one interesting webside from a very accurate source, which is the office of the privacy commissioner in Canada: http://www.priv.gc.ca/information/social/index_e.cfm. In this website, there is an 'about us' section that presents the authors and what they do. There is also a 'contact us' section where there are phone numbers and addresses. According to the date at the bottom of each page of the website, it seems that it is regularly modified and updated. In addition to that, it is related to my topic because it discusses privacy issues in social networks. To sum up, the website seems to have most of the "10 C's" criteria in identifying a reliable website.
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