On the whole, the Internet has been the most valuable tool for myself, my career, and for self-education. It has allowed me to teach myself the languages for communicating via the Internet. I've found this to be a double-edged sword. As my interest in writing Web pages has increased through resources online, it seems that the biggest threat to users is the great E-Mail security hole. E-Mail has little, or no security.
People can mail anything to anybody anonymously.
This appears to be a way for certain maladjusted people to create a type of Cyber-Terrorism. While Web pages may involve the Lunatic Fringe, they are visited by the user. E-Mail can come to you in any guise. So as with any all encompassing forum the Internet has improved my life greatly, while I'm sure that it does the opposite for others. The same is true of computers and cyberspace.