Sitting alone and interacting with other people via computer gives citizens of the Digital Nation a feeling of privacy. But with that anonymity sometimes comes unsocial behavior. People who normally would not raise their voices against each other in person often don't hesitate to rail against someone on-line. Even on the phone, you get some signals from the voice. Sometimes it goes beyond angry words.
Pornography is available on the Internet to anyone with the right knowledge and software.
The images often are scanned into computers from print publications. But some of the images are captured from video, and some are generated specifically for the Internet. One college student, who asked that her name not be used, said an embittered ex-boyfriend posted nude photos of her to a Usenet news group called alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female. She discovered it when someone in her dorm found the photo and printed out a copy for her. I want nothing to do with him.