On The Ethical Issues And Norms Of Network Friendship

The open, free and virtual characteristics eliminate the boundary of network friendship, which features wider scopes, easy atmosphere and low costs. Moreover, more space for imagination is left for the parties concerned. Network friendship can be classified into diverse types depending on status, mode and purpose. Network friendship becomes flat in space. And its main bodies become more concealed, the status of them more equal, the manner more optional, the scope wider, and the cost of time more economical. These characteristics on the one hand promote the development and progress of traditional ethical and moral, while on the other hand initiate many problems, such as betrayal of privacy, distortion of morality and personality, loss of credibility and shock to the traditional values of marriage. Thus, a tentative conclusion can be drawn that network friendship shall follow the code of purifying the condition thereof, establishing right ideas of network friendship, treating others with respect to their privacy and intensifying ethical and moral education.The paper consists five main parts. Part one analyzes the popular reason and type of network friendship. Part two summarizes the characteristics of the network friendship. Part three describes the impact of network friendship and social ethnical issues aroused. Part four discusses the causes of the social ethnical issues by network friendship. Finally part proposes the basic codes of ethic and applicable solutions to the pertaining problems.