p2pnet.net News:- The Net can, "jeopardise your bodily well-being, make you lose your friends and turn you into an anti-social, faithless and mentally damaged individual".

So says Iran’s police force.

"Police to Iran’s youth: Don’t get addicted to being online; don’t click onto immoral sites; and don’t replace your real friends and family with electronic buddies."

Quoted in a Middle East Online story here, the Police Directorate of Public Education says surfing is, "like taking a boat that acquaints us with the beautiful shores of the world.

"But in the waters are dangerous sharks. These dangerous sharks are indecent pictures, and becoming acquainted with them has no other repercussion but to inflict depression, weakness in faith, and tens of other forms of psychological and social damage."

It also points to "psychological and spiritual tensions in families that have unwisely used computers and the Internet".

The report says reliable figures on the number of Internet users in Iran are hard to find, but estimates range from 2.5 million to four million, "double the level of four years ago".

Moreover, "Experts say the number is likely to more than double again in the next five years in a country where two-thirds of the 66 million people are below 30 years of age and many are already technologically savvy," adds the story.

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