The present day 'Tree'

The Internet is fun.


She secretly made an account on a social networking site at the age of 10, made a new friend who she agreed to meet alone. She never returned home.


The Internet is awesome fun.


His girlfriend dumped him for another guy. He couldn't think straight. He went online and 'Googled' ways to poison people without getting caught. A few days later, the girlfriend was found dead in her apartment. They said cause of death was a 'Heart attack'.


Yes, the Internet is fun.


He went through compromising pictures of young girls on the Internet, and paused for a few minutes to admire one particular masked girl. Little did he know he was drooling over the picture of his own daughter.


Still fun, right?


They made a group on a social networking site defaming an unpopular girl who they would routinely rag and claiming she was involved in shady activities. The page got over a thousand views. They never got to see her reaction to all this. She was found hanging from the ceiling fan in her room the next morning.


Starting to sound less fun?


He copied and pasted his entire final year project from the Internet, just to make things easy for him. He was at a loss when he was asked questions about his project for the final exams. Needless to say, he cleared the same exam only 6 months later.


Fun, fun, fun...


He started playing Internet games at a young age. He is now 28, a high school dropout, living with his widowed mother. He has no job. He still plays Internet games... all the time.


The internet is fun.
It really is.
It is the present day 'Tree of knowledge of Good and Evil'. And just like the story goes, we are given everything we need, with a warning about the 'Tree'.
We need to make the right decisions when using the 'Web of Lies', else we'll end up like our ancestors, cast out of paradise and in a situation we really cannot handle.


Stay safe while on the World Wide Web. It only takes a second for things to go horribly wrong.


She sits in front of her unusually pink laptop, typing a warning out to the world. She has entered a contest and is sure she is going to loose for twisting the topic. She is, however, satisfied that she did her part and voiced her opinion. For her, the Internet is Pandora's box, full of surprises. It has given her a say in this world. She smiles to herself.


Yes, the Internet is fun.