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ust a few days back, a retired government official mailed me
Jwoes of his MBA pass-out unents |
of young children with some kind of disgusting Internet stories.
One of my acquaintances told me
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employed son. Among other things, |
that panic struck him when his ninehis |
communiqué had a surprising |
year-old stumbled onto a pornomention |
of a list of recurring ex- |
graphic photo. He told me that he |
penses which he has been bearing |
literally dove for the computer, tugfor |
his unemployed son. The most |
ging out the power cord and then |
striking item in the expenses ' list was |
rushing his toddler outside. |
a regular expenditure on internet. |
Almost the same thing hap- |
Though the retired official has nar- |
pened at the house of one of my |
rated his own financial worries, yet |
friends. His son, a 12-year-old todhis |
query reminded me of growing |
dler was Googling something redangers |
of internet in which our soci- |
lated to his studies on the computer. |
ety is being engulfed. Internet is not |
At some point, he pulled up a picture |
only an unnoticed hole in our pocket |
of porn stars, showing them in their |
but is also emerging like a menace as |
act. I am sure most of us must have |
the growing use of internet by our |
experienced the likes of internet horchildren |
is more assuming danger- |
ror anecdotes and it ' s not hard to find |
ous dimensions than having a posi- |
scattered tales about terrible things |
tive impact on the toddlers. |
that happen online, most of the time |
I have come across several par- |
unintentionally at the hands of our |