| [ CultureOfKids ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): pkp (~~~pkp~~~) 날 짜 (Date): 1993년07월30일(금) 01시22분56초 KDT 제 목(Title): HEARTBREAK IN CYBERSPACE..... 2 (앞글에 이어서..) The incensed women decided to go public on the general WELL -- if only to keep others from falling into Mr. X's trap. What ensued became "Topic 1290: Do You Know This Cyber-Scam-Artist?," publicly exposing Mr. X to the WELL's 8,000 members (among them, a high concentration of writers, journalists, musicians and Grateful Deadheads) and sparking a networkwide debate on the spoken and unspoken rules of electronic etiquette. Supporters of Lisa, Beth and Nancy sent their messages flying. "E-mail is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said one. But there were plenty of opponents of the "outing" of Mr. X. "I haven't seen anything posted here that suggests he did anything evil," said a veteran WELL user. "The ugliness here smacks of a lynch mob out for good old-fashioned vengeance." Mr. X has come to his own defense. Though he admits he conducted cyber-relationships with more than one woman at a time, he insists he is the victim in this matter. "I feel my privacy was radically violated," he says of the women's electronic onslaught. "I didn't make any relationship promises I didn't keep." In the bulletin-board free-for-all, he wrote, "I believe that I was supportive, caring and tender with these women. I gave as good as I got." He adds, "I was experimenting in a new area for me. I didn't think that the same concerns about fidelity I apply reflexively in physical relationships applied here in cyberspace. I was wrong." "This is a communal regime but the rules haven't been made," says a WELL member since 1985. "We have people with different degrees of sophistication participating." Until the affairs of Mr. X came to light, users could more easily overlook the potential for the abuse of the network. The illusion of safety promoted intense on-line intimacy -- all behind the safety of a computer screen. Says an ally of Mr. X, "The incident exposed in a very immediate way how the medium facilitates deception -- emotional manupulation because of the absence of physical cues. It's easy to keep secrets when you're on-line." And so cyberspace cannot exist in a vacuum. Now, many of its denizens are mourning a paradise lost. Says one user: "The bottom line is that we can't always trust each other and can't always know who is worthy of our trust." Why venture into an F2F when the party on the other side may think it's just a game or an experiment? "I feel like an absolute fool," says Lisa. "People look at a computer and fail to realize that behind those words is a real person with feelings." Welcome back to the real world. ~~~~~~~~~pkp~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~pkp~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^_^ 키즈의 아저씨 pkp palindrome ^L^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |