Sam Biddle has an excellent story about the women (and to a lesser extent, men) who work on the web stripping, and sometimes having live sex, for cam networks.

Now, however, the proof is starting to pile up. The first good, peer-reviewed research is emerging, and the picture is much gloomier than the trumpet blasts of Web utopians have allowed. The current incarnation of the Internet—portable, social, accelerated, and all-pervasive—may be making us not just dumber or lonelier but more depressed and anxious, prone to obsessive-compulsive and attention-deficit disorders, even outright psychotic. Our digitized minds can scan like those of drug addicts, and normal people are breaking down in sad and seemingly new ways.

—Hey, look at that. The internet is ACTUALLY, CERTIFIABLY, SCIENTIFICALLY making us crazy. To the woods!