Does the internet spell the end for secret societies?

and to what end? What is it that a secret society ends up controlling; Your purchasing habits? your religious beliefs? your social behavoir?

No one can force you to do anything you do not wish to do, period. The result may be your death, but that is the price of freedom, millions have paid it in the past.
If you wish to be free of a secret societies control, pay off your debt, destroy your credit cards ( or learn how to control credit), and you can become one of the "Ruling Eleite".