You can try to get the junk mailers or spammers to remove your name from their lists. You may become addicted to surfing the web. You maybe become a clickaholic , following link after link, until your index finger hurts and your eyes dry up. You may avoid real life, in favor of a virtual one, leaving your wife a cyberwidow . You may become a victim of fraud.
Fraud exists on the Internet as it does in the real world.
Sites exist to sell you products that are junk. There is also the problem of identity. Your cyberpal , who you believe to be a sixty-something retiree in Phoenix could be a mischievous teenager in Minneapolis. There have also been cases of Internet hoaxes, such as the home page supposedly created by a Detroit street gang. Or the infamous toilet web-cam, a supposedly live shot of a toilet.