Has the internet undermined the status of GP's?

I have to agree with Rhianna on this one, as a health care professional i will admit right up front i am no doctor and just because i have a good working knowledge of human anatomy and health care in general i still don't have the skills a good GP would have. The new internet health craze has spawned a generation of web-o-chondriacs who think they can diagnose their disease with the click of a mouse. If only people could realize that a good GP with years of experience and work with actually sick patients is way more accurate than webmd.com. Don't get me wrong i am as guilty as the next when it comes to getting an ache in my foot or a pain in my head and looking it up online before getting to my GP but i realized that by going online i cause myself undue stress and i jump to conclusions of rare and unfamiliar diseases before i go to my doc and find out i just sprained something or stubbed my toe,lol. I do think it's nice that the info is out there for non-health oriented people to educate themselves but i do feel lots of people take it to far. I think if used in conjunction with the professional GP's patients have, the internet can be a useful tool. But in the hands of web-o-chondriacs i feel the internet will give good GP's a mive headache.