Again the results were fifty-fifty. This was no surprise to me, as I thought I had simply rephrased and inverted the first question. Clearly, cyberspace citizens feel empowered by the technology to experiment with social interactions They feel safe enough to try on a different skin. But these online communities, with the individualism and anonymity they provide, produce a unique culture, combining fictional constructs and personalities with people and their real world expectations. They are text-only, player extensible cyberspaces.
Dozens are available world-wide via the Internet.
No Sense of Place, The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior, by Joshua Meyrowitz, Oxford Universiaty Press 1986.