Believe it Or not !

          Facebook: A website that has almost become synonymous to social networking. Started as simple project by Mark Zuckerberg in 2003 at Harvard University, it has now 1,110 Million registered users (As per the Facebook's Results for First Quarter 2013). With this exponential growth in it's users as well as the number of ways it can be used, the number of pages also grew.The pages ranging from the ones providing jokes and good humor and the ones giving you fitness tips and promoting business to those which seem to have a thing for cute little kittens. 
          I am no different from others in terms of regular habit of shambling through these pages and while one of those regular shuffling I came across a couple of pages which surely had a lot of democracy and love for freedom oozing out of them. As I went through these pages, I got a very new perspective of the potential of social media sites. Social media not only helps people connect, it even provides a platform to bring out the rebel, resistance or the visionary in them. The pages like Freethinkers Club and The Idealist, just to name a few, do the similar job.But as I spent time thinking about it and going deeper and deeper, I encountered a very grave question. 

          I am not talking about any terrorist group or any group planning a coup. I am talking about the person responsible for these.
It is an extremely serious issue that despite of such a huge following there is no one to check the authenticity. A single post on these pages are seen by such a wide number of audience that it is bound to leave an impact on some or other mind and this gets worse when the information is misleading or wrong. Like the quotations by the people who have not even said that and most amusing is the one asking you to thank your father as the pain of being hit in the nuts is equivalent to "160 child births".
          The need is to check what you follow and not believing till the you are sure of the credibility and reliability of the source no matter how big a freedom enthusiast or Guy Fawkes lover you are.

          Who is the authority behind these pages ?