The Internet has a large and growing number of users that have created a distinct culture, Internet Dynamics. For examples see Netiquette, Internet friendship, Internet romance, Trolls and trolling, Flaming, Cybering, Hacktivism, Internet humor, Internet slang, Internet art, PSTN. Netiquette (neologism, a contraction of network etiquette) is a catch-all term for the conventions of politeness recognised on Usenet, in mailing lists, and other electronic forums such as internet message boards. ... Internet friendships are friendships between people who have met online, and in some cases know each other only via the Internet. ... Internet romance is when two people are having a romantic relationship while communicating through the Internet. ... Jump to: navigation, search // In Internet terminology, a troll is a person who posts inflammatory messages on the internet, such as on online discussion forums, to disrupt the discussion or to upset its participants. ... Jump to: navigation, search Flaming is the act of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting, usually in the social context of a discussion board (usually on the Internet). ... Cybersex or computer sex is a virtual sex encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely via a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages describing a sexual experience. ... Hacktivism is the writing of code, or otherwise manipulating bits, to promote political ideology. ... Jump to: navigation, search One of the more frequent jokes on the internet is to produce a fake or joke web counter. ... Jump to: navigation, search Internet slang consists of slang which users of the Internet have developed and/or utilized. ... Jump to: navigation, search Internet art is art or, more precisely, cultural production which uses the Internet as its primary medium and, more importantly, its subject, much like video art uses video as its medium - but is also very much about video, although many artists working with the Net view... The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concatenation of the worlds public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concatenation of the worlds public IP-based packet-switched networks. ...

In the academic world, Sherry Turkle and David Gelernter are just two of the many researchers who investigate the effects of the Internet on individuals. Sherry Turkle (born 1948) is a clinical psychologist and a professor of Science, Technology and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ... David Hillel Gelernter is a professor of computer science at Yale University. ...