Moral panics and concerns with online technology.

The main social concern that sorounds the evolution of digital technology is that there will no longer be a global village. Instead, there will be a divide between people who do have access to these technologies, and people who don't. However, this article has some interesting information about an organization the united nations are setting up which concentrates on funding less developed countries with enough money to gain access to not only computers, but the internet too. The organization is called 'Digital Soliditary Fund'.
The evolution of these technologies has also had an effect on the way we interact with other people online. for example, the availability of networking sites such as Bebo and Facebook have given us ways of 'selling ourselves' not only to our friends, but also anyone else who choses to visit your profile and read all about you. On the other hand, some people interact with friends more cautiously because of the rising numbers of people who use these sites to 'stalk' people and the rising number of cases such as the 'MySpace killer'.
The fact the the WWW is so huge makes it incredibly difficult to monitor everything that goes on. This is why people say 'the only place we have any freedom is on the web' - because nobody can tell penalise you on the web. However, this is becoming a problem not only on local levels for the police but also on national levels for th government. The fact that the internet is so open means that killers and terrorists can use the internet to communicate information securely. These sorts of things can not yet be sensored or moderated. Also, the small number of sites that can be moderated are so easy to violate and hack, that people are finding ways of getting around these regulations and moderators.