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If you were with a group of people and someone was telling a story that didn't particularly interest you, would you pipe up in the middle of the conversation and say, "who cares!"? Probably not. So why do some people feel like that's ok to do online?

Here's the scenario - you're looking for a summer rental, so you do what a lot of us do these days - you start poking around the internet. You find a great looking house in the perfect area, and the rent looks to be more than reasonable. You contact the landlord, put down a deposit, and then never hear from them again. Unfortunately, it's a story that's getting more and more common these days. Rea

Innocent people are sometimes arrested, but if their mugshots or rap sheets are posted on websites before charges are dropped or they are acquitted, it can ruin their reputations. Some shady website operators know this, and are actually charging arrested people not to post the embarrassing information.

What is a "Bag of Crap?", you may be asking. The answer - nobody knows until they actually get the Bag of Crap in the mail. The backstory first -

A lot of us these days have Facebook pages and happily engage in discussions with our friends privately. But commenting online publicly can be a whole different game.

Suffice to say, there's a pretty good chance that nobody reading this article became a multi-millionaire since yesterday. We now know that there were two winners of the Mega Millions. One of them supposedly came forward today. But if you dig a little more into the story, it gets a little shady.

A Facebook friend of mine posted the link to this seemingly pointless game earlier today. My whole productivity for the day has since been lost.

Most parents try to keep an eye on what their kids do - who their friends are, where they're hanging out, etc. But online, where it's easier to be sneaky, do you keep tabs on your kids?

As the price of cable TV seems to keep going up, more people are cutting the cord all together.

There appears to be a significant disconnect between what today's youth are doing online and what their parents believe they're doing.