I couldn’t agree more with Chester and Breterton. People sometimes feel that once they enter cyberspace, they are in an alternate reality. However, the web is not some sort of other world – all the people we interact with online are real individuals and they have thoughts and feelings like everyone in our actual lives. People often create alter-identities online or act in ways they normally wouldn’t, but they are still the same person. The Internet simply brings out facets of people's personalities or how they wish they could be in real life. It's as if they are living vicariously through their Internet personas. It’s all part of a person's personality; they may just normally hide or suppress some aspects of it. Of course how people are offline is going to affect who they try to be online, because they're not really changing. Likewise, how they behave and interact with people on the Internet can have an effect on their lives in the real world.
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