I'm doing a paper for a class on the internet. It's long and wordy, so I won't post it. But I do think I stumbled upon some golden nuggets of truth.
In early March of 2006, five boys created a personality on the internet. This personality was a 15-year-old girl. Before they knew it, the boys had men making passes at them. As a joke they continued discourse with a 48-year-old man. When a meeting was arranged it started to get too real. Rather than standing him up, the young men called authorities and the man was arrested for attempting sexual acts with a minor...a minor that didn’t even exist.
Through the internet we are creating people that don't exist and destroying the lives of those that do.
Men create viruses for fame; spyware for fortune.
We create engraven images out of ourselves. Blogs (except mine) are platforms for self gratification.
"I'm fairly sure that if they took all the porn off the Internet, there'd only be 1 website left, and it would be called 'Bring Back The Porn.'" (Dr. Cox, Scrubs, 2001)
Our society is slipping into dangerous territory.
Henry David Thoreau once said, “Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” Let us hope that the internet is not our wings.
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But the people who surf the internet and prey on kids ruin their own lives and deserve to get caught and humiliated.
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