Journal Entry #6

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Find 3 fake and 3 real websites and compare

First fake website: http://www.thedogisland.com/ It is rather easy to tell that this is a fake website because it advertises sending your beloved dog to an island, which is both bizarre and extremely unrealistic. Other dead giveaways are the poor site design, and the multitude of pop-up ads, as well as no SSL/TLS certificate.

Fake Website #2: https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ Although this site is better designed and structured, a simple google search will inform anyone that the pacific northwest tree octopus does not even exist. Although this website is supposed to be humorous, it goes to show that not all fake websites are necessarily dead giveaways based on design issues and popup ads alone.

Fake Website #3 https://zapatopi.net/afdb/ The website design on this site doesn’t look official by any means, and the website itself is completely fake, as it is explaining the importance of wearing an aluminum foil hat.

Real Website #1: https://www.facebook.com/ This is the official facebook website, and it is apparent due to the security of the site, as well as no errors in the domain name.

Real Website #2: https://www.nytimes.com/ Similar to facebook, this site is also secure, has no errors in the domain name, no grammatical errors on the site, or within the news articles, and all news articles are recent and up to date.

Real Website #3 https://www.reddit.com/: Like the other two sites, no errors in the domain name, no pop-up ads, site is secure, and website design is accurate with no grammatical or formatting errors.

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