Social skills will help you beat online dangers

Last week a young man committed suicide following his participation in a computer game. It was a tragic story indeed. We are becoming an increasingly wired society and a lot of our activities are moving online. Children who used to play in the yard are now playing in the study.

There is a mixture of glee and gloom as organisations move towards providing services through the e-system. Skeptics of technology are often reluctant in using them fearing what would happen to their data in case something went wrong. At the very basic indication that something is amiss, they quickly use that to support their laggard predisposition.