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Subscribe to commentsyankeeiSep 30th 2010 6:49PM
Cyber-stuff in all its forms can be a "good friend and a bad enemy" - words my great-grandmother used when teaching us about fire. The new cyber-world for our younger generation has yet to establish specific boundries - it's too bad that abuse will be regulated by a litigious group of attorneys, but we've done it to ousrselves. Fire, when used discriminately, is a good thing, but it can be deadly when abused - we have a long way to go to get internet users to truly understand this concept.