Even if you’ve never browsed the dark web, it is something that the average person should care about. Increasingly frequent corporate data breaches expose millions of people’s personal information; the dark web is where all of that stolen information goes, and your private data may be being bought and sold for just a few dollars.

Have you heard about the dangerous Internet stunts kids are doing these days?

While we all love a good Mannequin Challenge, there are more dangerous stunts trending online, such as the “Choking Game” that just killed a young student last month. To the young developing mind of a child who doesn’t want to be the odd one out, participating in online stunts isn’t a dangerous thing (because kids never think they’ll get hurt), but a way to “be cool” or “fit in.”

The world is changing a lot lately. Come January, you can expect the Internet to change too. In just a couple of months, the Google Chrome security team will “publicly shame nearly half of the world’s websites that don’t use strong encryption.”

That means Chrome will flag any unencrypted websites that accept a username and password or credit card as “not secure.” Currently, the browser only warns you of the potential for trouble with these sites. Consider the fact that Chrome is by far the most popular browser in terms of browser usage and this is quite an ultimatum.

And as much as many of us would like to forget it ever happened, this election season requires some analysis. One disturbing trend has been that over the course of the election, there have been floods of fake news articles on the Internet. Conspiracy theories, lies, hoaxes and the relentless efforts to check the facts have been everywhere on social media. Some have called out Facebook’s job of moderating bogus news stories as “terrible.” And the endless supply of media to choose from hasn’t broadened our perspectives as much as it’s closed us off into “like-minded social networks.”