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Unit 2 Culture Passage A Why Digital Culture Is Good for You? 　The news media, along with social and behavioral scientists, have recently sent out a multitude of warnings about the many dangers that await us out there in cyberspace. The truth of the matter is that the Web is no more inherently dangerous than anything else in the world. It is not some amorphous entity capable of inflicting harmful outcomes on all who enter. In fact, in and of itself, the Web is fairly harmless. It has no special power to overtake its users and alter their very existence. Like the old tale that the vampire cannot harm you unless you invite it to cross your threshold, the Internet cannot corrupt without being invited. And, with the exception of children and the weak-willed, it cannot create what does not already exist... 　 　(1) Like alcohol, the Web simply magnifies what is already there: Experts are concerned that the masking that goes on online poses a danger for everyone who is a part of the Digital Culture. Before we know it, the experts tell us, we will all use fake identities, become fragmented, and will no longer be sure of just who we are. Wrong. The only people who feel compelled to mask, and otherwise misrepresent themselves online are the same people who are mysterious and unfrank in real life...the Net just gives them one more tool to practice their deceit.　 　As for the rest of us, getting taken in by these people is a low probability. We know who these folks are in the real world. The Internet does not cause people to disguise as something they are not. As for the Digital Culture getting cheated by these dishonest folks, well, there are just as many cues online to decipher deception as there are in the real world. The competent WebHead can recognize many red flags given off by the online behavior of others. Oftentimes the intentions of fellow users is crystal clear, especially over time.　 　When someone is trying to deceive us online, inconsistencies, the essence that t