ABSTRACT
Unlike in Golding’s (Golding, 1954) time, today’s young people do not have to go to a remote island to find a changed landscape. It is as close as the cellphone or the family microcomputer. Cyberspace has become a real locale without clearly established rules on cyber-civility. On the Internet, no one has yet found an acceptable and workable way to create and enforce the modicum of culture that allows people to get along with each other. Nowhere on the Internet is this more true than in the virtual space frequented by children, who often have the technological capacity and skill to run electronic circles around their elders, but who lack the internal psychological and sociological controls to moderate their behaviour.
