Network Contacts Ethical Reflection

Intercourse, an aspect of man's practical activities, is the basic mode of social existence. Since there being human society, there has begun intercourse for it has the same longer history with human society. While intercourse gives an impetus to progression and development of human society, it in turn helps deepen and develop intercourse. Invention and widely using of Internet has an unprecedented effect on the history of science and technology and spreading history. What is more important is that Intemet is creating a new environment we humans live and bringing about a new intercourse mode — intercourse on cyberspace. The appearance of this new mode of intercourse has a profound effect on people's life. An increasing number of people are conducting their intercourse activities by means of Internet; Therefore, intercourse on cyberspace is becoming a centre in such fields as philosophy, sociality and psychology. This article to discuss the ethical issues of intercourse on cyberspace from an ethic perspective on the one hand helps deepen and broaden the study of cyber ethics, a new branch of practical ethics, and helps complement new content for practical ethics. On the other hand, to think over intercourse on cyberspace is also beneficial to develop, deepen and further perfect the theories of intercourse.Intercourse on cyberspace, based on cyber technology, is the outcome of information age and knowledge economy, and is to develop, extend and complement the "real-world" activities, which reflects the social relationships between the subjects in cyber intercourse. Intercourse on cyberspace is also practical activities of the people in real world, and is an organic part of whole social activities. To be exact, so-called intercourse on cyberspace is an interpersonal or human means or way in communication, is that subjects engage in practical activities in cyberspace to intercourse, interact and interconnect each other so as to transform or communicate materials, energy, emotions and information. Intercourse in cyberspace includes the three major component elements, namely, subjects of intercourse in cyberspace, medium of intercourse in cyberspace and objects of intercourse in cyberspace. In cyberspace intercourse has changed its traditional modes, showing up new basic characteristics such as unreality, openness, anonymity, dramatization and recreation and so on.