Monday, October 3, 2011

Buy Dehydrated Water

In my group we had to look up the website http://www.buydehydratedwater.com/. We had to decide whether or not the website was a reliable website or a fake. When looking at the home page of the website it looked to be legitimate. As we looked further into the website it was easy to tell that it was a fake. The biggest red flag that popped up was when we looked at the work environment and the benefits that working for this company had. Some that didn’t really seem any different from other companies were; 3 vacation days a year, 401K program, and 2 sick days a year. On the other hand there were some benefits that seemed a little ridiculous such as; total harassment to all employees, free bathroom breaks, and free transportation to work by mule. It also gave a couple contact numbers that I decided to call to see what kind of consultant that I would get and the person that answered the phone was from a company in Chicago that had no idea what I was talking about.  This website was a good web site that really helped to pick between a really site and a fake one. I learned how do depict between the real websites and the fake ones. Now that I have learned to actually look at the website and do more research than to just look at the home page because as I learned by doing this assignment that home pages are deceiving.

1 comment:

  1. Yay, I'm glad you found the assignment practical and will delve deeper than the homepages of sites to check their validity. I'm impressed how you actually called the number! That's great!

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