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It's like any source of information in life. You need to have an awareness of the quality of information, and use it appropriately. It's not always better to spend a lot more time looking for a more perfect source. If it was, why bother asking a friend about something - people are often wrong. The point is that you need to find an appropriate source for the information and treat it according to it's properly understood authority on the topic.
If I want quick info on a history topic or to learn about a technical term, sure I go to wikipedia and Google. Might I read something that's biased on incorrect at times? Sure. But I can't even begin to imagine how much time I've saved and how much more information I've been able to get because of these resources.
You face the same information quality issues whether you are talking to friends, reading the documents of co-workers or watching TV news. Even in library print research, or academic papers, you can't trust everything you read. Magazines and newspapers for instance are full of all kinds of errors and bias.
If our kids are trusting everything indiscriminately, and don't know how to evaluate or use a variety of information sources, then the problem is that they aren't being properly educated, and that has very little to do with the internet.
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