At least one cyber-chump will pick up the ball and run with it. Soon the lie has life. And the liar has a constituency. Cyber-chumps may spend hours and hours on the Net, but their central intellectual characteristic is laziness. Legitimate Websites can be imitated.
Impostors can be anyone they want.
Souls are being stolen. Reputations are being destroyed. One single obsessive with a modem can intrude upon, alter, and even endanger human lives. And while e-mail promises instant intimacy, what it does not deliver is privacy. The worst computer virus of all is downloadable stupidity.