These are huge benefits that should never be overlooked, notwithstanding the fact that antisocial people can also find each other in cyberspace and can validate and encourage each other's destructiveness. Indeed the internet is now bringing together people all over the world in a positive way to grieve and to support each other in the face of this tragedy in Colorado. We do not blame the car for the car crash - we blame the driver. This rule should also be applied to the Internet. The most influential book read by serial killers is in fact the Bible, but we don't hear calls for the Bible to be banned on the grounds that murderers read it and abuse it.
Technology is neutral.
Our children need the Internet for their future. Work with them and be there for them as they explore this cyberspace world, and help guide them to make positive choices. Monitor your teens activities online, set your boundaries and enforce them, and whatever you do, do not ban the internet from your teens life. Please don't make the internet a scapegoat for our failure to raise healthy teenagers.