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Some think that it is better to get information or advice from other people, while others believe one can get any information or advice from the Internet or books. Discuss both views and give your own opinion

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Knowledge
 is considered to be a tool that has great power. Some say obtaining
information
 from people who we interact from the daily
life
 are better when compared to the
information
 taken from the world wide web or from the printed material. In my opinion, both of these sources are equally important and relevant to succeed in
life
. On the one hand, critics who are in favour of getting
information
 from others would argue that, people from day to day lives can provide us an ample of believable
knowledge
 that cannot be found on anywhere else. To elaborate, as humans we always tend to believe
information
 obtained from another human being,
this
 is mainly due to the emotions, experience and the level of truth attached with that
information
.
For instance
, we would believe something that an ex-convict has to say about the
life
 in prison rather than retrieving the same
information
 by reading a book.
Similarly
, a story of
life
 experiences and hardship being told to us by a parent would have a much stronger attachment and an impact than seeing or hearing from a different source.
On the other hand
, some oppose the above argument and believe that
knowledge
 and
information
 found in printed media or the web would contain a plethora of
information
. To put differently, the internet has revolutionised the way we work and how we obtain
information
. As long it's from a credible source,
information
 found on the internet are extremely reliable and have benefitted an ample of organisations or individuals
such
 as, the police, research scientists or even students.
For example
, an online library access provided by my university allowed me access to un-imaginable amount of journals and academic articles,
therefore
, with the help of
this
 I was able to successfully complete my final year research. In conclusion, I strongly believe that
information
 and
knowledge
 obtained from both of these sources are equally important in
life
.
Information
, experiences and lessons obtained from others can always be used to shape your
life
 for the better, while
information
 retrieved from the internet can be used to improve the overall
knowledge
 in a particular area.
However
, on both of these instances the
information
 must be from a credible source.

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