I'm sorry, how does that make Networld different from the "real" world? We have many alternative realities outside the Net as well. And we've had more of those for a longer period. I think it is just normal human behavior moved to a new, more immediately available and more broadly distributable medium. Insanity on line.

"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown