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	7 Myths about the Internet

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12-6-2007 10:51 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/090b3c49-9116-4221-a60a-049fb45fc4b3/AE964F9F-DE0D-48C0-9EB8-E017B27745F9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/" href="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/" style="font-size: 11px;">webworkerdaily.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><SPAN id="more-1412"></SPAN><STRONG>It’s dangerous</STRONG>. You have to be careful how you use it. Montemagno: “In 1800 they said the same thing about the railroad: a nice but dangerous invention.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It’s difficult</STRONG>. You must be the “Kasparov of the Internet” to figure it out.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It’s filled with pornography</STRONG>. Yes, I know you are online all day… but what are you <EM>really</EM> doing?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It’s for deviants</STRONG>. There are very strange people on the Internet. One must be very careful — people like us don’t surf the web.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It’s untrustable</STRONG>. You never know what might happen. One day the servers are up — the next day down. It’s fragile and not dependable.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It isolates you</STRONG>. If you use the Internet you’ll alienate yourself from society as you become an alien.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It’s virtual, not real</STRONG>. “There we are staring with gloomy eyes at something that doesn’t exist.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/12/03/7-myths-about-the-internet/"><P><STRONG>It’s addictive</STRONG>. 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