No seriously! Unplug your modem and burn it! Now! Do it!
Or maybe not. Although, given the coverage on the subject by the media these days, you might as well.
It seems that behind every hyperlink, there's a peadophile waiting to attack and rape you. You mustn't use chatrooms. You can't use forums or message boards. Hell, we're even told who we can and can't add to our instant messaging contact lists. Yes, admittedly the internet is a dangerous place to be, but, so's my local shopping centre!
Yes, peadophiles do use the internet, but with a bit of common sense, they're pretty easy to avoid. Now, the medias answer to that argument would be "Ah, but peadophiles are capable of setting up a whole new identity online!"
True. But, even in that case, if you were to plan on meeting someone off the internet, you'd be thick to go alone.
Now for the real bombshell... I've met internet people! OMGOMG! It was a group meet up. Perfectly safe. In a public area. Liverpool St Station. (See - basic common sense). We all met together, now, unless you're saying that there might have been a gang of peadophiles waiting for me (to which my reply is :
), it was perfectly safe becuase if there had been a peado in our midst we could have overpowered him/her.
So, my message (in complete contradiction to the general opinion) is "Get on those chatrooms and forums, add who you want on your IM list.. Haave fun! A little bit of common sense is all you need!"
Sorry about saturday btw 
I was rolling around in mud for air cadets.
09/09/07 @ 21:25