Concerns include wanting to deal with someone they know and the fear that sensitive financial information will fall into the wrong hands. Educational organizations use the internet to organize classes, communicate with home bound students, and collect homework. Information on almost any topic is available from industry, government, educational sources. Almost anything you want is there if you can sift through the many sites to find it. It continues to be a time consuming process and the information and quality of goods an services must still be evaluated by the user.
Access varies widely by locality.
Scouting the Web, Worth , pp.86- 89. Surfing the cybermalls. Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine , pp.105-112. Consumer information of the electronic superhighway. Life in cyburbia.