7 mail Seasoned net users, however took it seriously, as they had experienced the subtle shift of the energetic self across the permeable screen boundary. The division of opinion on-line was not over the validity of the offence, but of the response to it and how to deal with an offender in a supposed anarchic non hierarchical space. Three years later, magazine supplements are reporting that cyberspace is not a separate reality. The now common cyber affair, is set in the already personal intimate private space of online. You can meet anyone from anywhere, but as they are physically absent , the boundaries which define personal safety do not seem as necessary.
Intimacy is achieved in an astoundingly short amount of time.
But the intimacy that is attained is surely that of projection of the self into another. They exist only within our personal defined physical boundaries, as the computer is an extension of our own self. They do not exist when we switch the computer off, but like our relationship with the absent mother, we grow to learn that she will reappear on our command. We have swallowed the other. Know that I am at peace.