Indeed this is a fast growing area of activity with pornographic material being easily accessible to anyone, including the young, who has the ability to log onto the internet. A particularly worrying trend is the exploitation of vulnerable groups. For example, an e-mail list for disabled students was recently subjected to offers of erotic material for individuals and partners. Violent groups, such as neo-Natzis, have used the internet to promote their particular brand of rhetoric and violence. Turning to the issue of social groupings, the superhighways are having some potentially damaging effects.
Teleworking is reliant on the superhighways.
Whilst teleworking can be very effective for organisations, it can isolate individuals. A recent television documentary depicted a marketing executive of an intentional firm as quite a pathetic figure, teleworking across the globe but looking forward to the social interaction with the postman to break the monotony and chill of cyberspace. Commercial opportunists have moved cyberspace into the high street with cyber pubs and cafes where the fixed menu includes food, drink and net surfing. Just as video arcade games can become obsessional so can surfing the net. Conversation is replaced with the tapping of keyboards and the glazed stare of the surfing addict.