I still don't get it.

I love the internet, I think it is the one of the most valuable resources we have, all that information at our fingertips. I would literally be lost without it and rely on email and messenger to keep in touch with friends all over the world.

Yet when Kim Hollamby (Head of electronic media at IPC Media) talked to us I began to wonder about its potential negative effects.

I think there is a very severe danger that people become obessed with it. The constant calcualtion of who has logged on to your website, where they were, how old they were, what they were doing at the time... who cares? Perhaps the business minded people do, or the geeks but frankly I do not. I admit that these statistics have some importance to the people making money from websites and seeking to boost their number of hits but I find the jump from this to journalism and what I want to do a hard one to make.

Finally, the demonstation of how many people would reply to his chat room message in 16 minutes made me question the internet again. We hear that children are becoming increasingly overweight and not able to create imaginative play because they spend too much time in front of the computer. Why then are so many grown men sitting on a motorboat chat room simply waiting for a message to reply to? Have they nothing better to do? Perhaps instead of chatting to people via the internet who are actually just across the hall from you, you should move away from the screen and go and actually meet them.