Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.

Rather than bringing me closer to others, the time that I spend online isolates me from the most important people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbourhood, my community.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Merely that I have a World Wide Web page does not give me any power, any abilities, nor any status in the real world.

I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.