The focus of this paper is on the changing nature of social interaction and impression management due to the widespread implementation of Cyberspace technology. We have illustrated this through the discussion of three important aspects of this change. Anonymity, flaming, and privacy all contribute to the alteration of deeply rooted social rules. Throughout our paper, we have suggested that electronic communication has established a new range of frameworks within which social interaction takes place.
Although Cyberspace interaction is apparently more limited and less rich than traditional face to face interaction where the participants are physically present, this technology provides new opportunities and different ways of presenting the self. (Miller, 1) Utilizing Erving Goffman's theory on the presentation of self, we have clearly concluded that the use of electronic communication blurs the distinctions between the front and back regions. In Cyberspace, the distinct back stage preparation and the front stage presentation does not represent the dichotomy involved in traditional impression management.