Recently AOL in the UK ran a new campaign asking the question; “Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing?”
It’s funny, just a few years back whether we lived in villages, towns and cities, we had our networks, our communities, the communities we trusted.
They were our reference point for life. If we need help we knew where to turn, if we needed advice we knew whom to ask and if we didn’t know who to ask we were lost.
So it’s an irony that today I feel more trusting in the advice I gain on the Internet than that available within my local network or community.
Everyday I find myself bound more inexorably to the global network than the day before, an open source wonder world of advice and help.
I love it. Sorry AOL.
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