Allow me to throw that load of FUD back at you Sir....
The problem is that too many people equate access to information with knowledge, insight and understanding. All the while not knowing how much of the information is correct.
The same idiots who can't tell the difference between good and bad information on the internet are the same idiots who will fall for the stories told to them by bank managers, estate agents, care salespeople and treat what the newspapers say as gospel .....
The people who can't tell the difference in real life are the same people who can't tell the difference on the internet.
But hey, it has spawned a horde of instant experts who know everything despite having experienced nothing.
The benefits of the internet outweigh its disadvantages greatly.
Let's take financial products as an example. You can't trust the commission hungry sales people in your local bank branch who only want to sell you their own product .... so where can you find truly independent information on the whole gamut of financial products and their pros and cons .... at an affordable price ? Yeah, that's right, the internet.
When did you last book a flight or a train ticket face-to-face bricks and mortar ?
it has spawned a horde of instant experts who know everything despite having experienced nothing.
Just as there are a whole horde of so called real-life experts with qualifications and "experience" to their name who are a complete and utter waste of space.
( for the avoidance of doubt, that comment was not directed at you incase you think it was !).