... identity that they are interacting with is manufactured. Moreover, any individual could be, for example, a male heterosexual in real life but may interact in a net community as a single female, a teenage boy in another, or even a homosexual male in another (Lewis 2002). Masquerading with a fabricated identity can give individuals the ability to discard, in cyberspace at least, the burdens that marginalise them ... withdrawn and depressive." As people retreat into, and find comfort in, cyber communities, a debate remains as to whether that spells the end of traditional interpersonal comm...

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