It's another rainy evening at Bennington College, and I've holed up in my room to finish reading Internet Detective. I actually felt like the information reviewed many things that I learned previously in my undergraduate library orientations and research endeavors. I did, however, enjoy the thorough review and the opportunity to quiz myself about my understanding of the material.
The part that most stuck out to me actually didn't deal with academics so much as it spoke to my personal experience. Reading about the precautions one should take to prevent Scams and protect his/her identity on the internet was very valuble as well as seeing that there are many resouces and links out there for veryfying the legitmacy of emails or websites such as http://www.snopes.com/ or http://www.scambusters.com/ . When I read that there was an email scam with PayPal some years ago, I felt foolish and angry for possibly haven fallen into this trap--a few years ago, someone hacked into my bank account under the guise of PayPal and made two extremely small deposits, each followed by a rather large withdrawal. I discovered it after my check card was declined for a small purchase at the supermarket. Fortunately the bank returned the funds to me, but I had to close the account, and open a new one, and it was a major inconvenience. So, if you take nothing else from this, remember that there are ways to be smarter and protect your finances online.