What do you avoid on the internet?

What do you avoid on the internet?

Stephen Fry (Author and Broadcaster) gives expert video advice on: Could you live without the internet?; What are your favourite sites?; What do you avoid on the internet? and more...

Well, I certainly avoid games on the Internet. For some reason I never bothered to get myself off the Macromedia mailing list, so they're constantly sending me flash games with frogs hopping up or down or something. I'm not sure whether I avoid games because I'm bored or frightened by them, rather like a child being confronted by a heroin dealer. Is it fear and disgust, or is actually terror that you're going to get sucked in and forever be an addict? I think it may be the latter, but functionally it's the same, it means that I avoid games. I avoid things like Second Life. Like everybody, I've had a visit, and I think everyone should just because it is such a preposterous phenomenon, and such a deeply bewildering one as to what's happening to the human race to some extent, and some of the grimier things you hear about it really do make the eyes pop out on stalks, and you want to avoid them, but I guess it'll settle down.