Key quotes

1) 'Social isolation can help to explain why some people enter destructive relationships even when they suspect the person they are in contactwith is insincere'

Source: Paul Bocij, " The dark side of the internet: protecting yourself and your family from online criminals ", Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006 P. 181



2) ' Internet infidelity and destructive behaviour resulting in the break down of family and intimate re;ationships'

Source: Paul Bocij, " The dark side of the internet: protecting yourself and your family from online criminals ", Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006 P.184



3) ' Facial expressions, posture and movement, and eye contact are all channels through which we can share meaning without using langage.'

Source: Andrew F. Wood, Matthew J. Smith, " Online communication : linking technology, identity, and culture ", Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001 P.71



4) ' Some home page authors are extraordinarily frank and revealing about themselves compared to what might ordinarily expect in face-to-face interaction with strangers.'

Source: Daniel Chandler, "Personal Home Pages andthe Construction of Identities on the Web"
[http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/short/webident.html]



5) ' Once you start making assumptions , you can jump from one conclusion to another until you have a fairly complex mental picture of what kind of person I am......Once someone has a preconceived idea of who I am based on his or her (and his or her society’s) particular set of stereotypes, that someone will then interact with me based on those assumptions. "

Source: Gianna LaPin, "Pick a Gender and Get Back to Us":How Cyberspace Affects Who We Are"
[http://www.fragment.nl/mirror/various/LaPin_G.1998.Pick_a_gender_and_get_back_to_us.htm]