Wikipedia Analysis 2nd Half

The second half of "The World and Wikipedia" by Andrew Dalby begins by talking about why society loves wikipedia. Dalby suggests that society loves wikipedia because it is like a virtual world, "We love it because it's a virtual nation, or rather a virtual world" (pg. 120). Also since Wikipedia is so interactive and anyone is able to change its content. But i believe we love it because when we need information it is so easy for us to go to the online encyclopedia and access the information that we need. American society is in love with laziness. Whatever is easy and fast for people they lean towards and rely heavily on it. That is why people are in love with the internet and great sites just like Wikipedia. In the book there are a lot of examples of articles wikipedians put on the website. There are many articles about people and usually the information is from the authors themselves. Dalby also says, "We love Wikipedia because we love talking about ourselves" (pg. 148). Which i agree with completely. Society is filled with a bunch of people who love to think highly of themselves. These people combined with the wikipedia website creates a reason for people to use the site.