When the telephone was introduced at the turn of the last century, there was a conservative backlash against its usage. People feared that telephones would lead to indecency, broken families, communism, and anarchy; respectable people therefore should not use the telephone. (Incidentally, people held similar views on bicycles, because women who rode them would expose their legs.) We see similar attitudes concerning the internet today.

We are the last generation where large number of people still think it is somehow indecent to meet people on the net. In later years, they will be the laughingstock of younger people.