Important Information for Teachers Important Information For Editors, Writers, Teachers, Meet the Cookie Monster Many teachers and virtually all the students I have sat down with don't really know what a cookie is. A cookie may be information, a file, or a code, installed on YOUR computer by the site you are visiting without your knowledge or awareness. If you don't have your options set to ask you before accepting them, you won't even know your computer is accepting cookies. They will be set in your computer automatically.
Cookies do serve good and wholesome purposes in most instances.
Some cookies are set in order to tell the webmaster you have been there, other cookies might trigger some interesting pyrotechnics, or to play music. But there are also an unknown number of other cookies which might do actual damage to your computer either by accident, or even by design. In my opinion, Cookies are not a minor problem. Then one site for children had a total of 54 cookies. Now, I am the first to admit that 999,999 cookies out of a hundred are good cookies out there.