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Former Illinois governor and twice U.S. Presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson once cautioned that “we should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don’t follow when it damages those who take us at our word.” In the middle of the 20th century, before personal computers were ubiquitous, long before the Internet existed, this was certainly sound advice and it was a fair warning not just to those who offered advice to others, but for those who took the advice.

In the 21st century, we’re living in the Information Age where the exchange of knowledge is greater than at any other time in history. Almost any piece of information is a few mouse clicks away, awaiting us on more than 234 million websites as 1.4 billion email users send 90 trillion emails across the world (as of last year, 2009). But how do you distinguish good information from bad? Or at least accurate from inaccurate information?

If you wish to find out anything, from health, religion and spirituality, news and issues, electronics and gadgets, automobiles, or business and finance, the best way to find answers is to ask an expert . Advice websites make experts available on line, providing trustworthy free information and advice to anyone with a question, a convenience of the 21st century that Adlai Stevenson might have envied.

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