Assignment

1. Use the search engine of your choice to find a site that discusses Urban Legends.
   
   
   1. Read two of the legends on this site. Describe and discuss their content in a few paragraphs.
   2. Why is this phenomenon of “urban legends” dangerous to society?
   3. What are some of the effects of the two legends you read?


2. Provide an example of each of the following and discuss each.
   
   
   1. Hoax
   2. Urban legend
   3. Rumor
   4. Junk


3. Find another Web site that is useful for revealing false information and list its URL with a brief description of what it covers.


4. Discuss some issues in privacy in using the Internet. Find 2 examples of violations doing a search on this topic.

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