Is cyberculture truly fostering a new type of community? That is, can internet users gain as much from sitting at a keyboard as they can from sitting at the local bar? Most people would agree that watching television does not promote the kind of interaction and atmosphere that playing at the park does. But, should parents really be that much happier when and if their child gives up a few hours of channel surfing for net cruising? Social interaction in the form of face to face, voice to voice communication is unmatched by even the most modern inventions. By sitting in front of a computer screen, you are satisfying the most basic need for interaction- you are in touch with another person, but at a very impersonal level. By visiting chat rooms, MUD's, etc., one can interact with a number of different people but computer correspondence is not an acceptable substitute for human interaction. Computers posess the great feature of convinience- you need not wait for someone to get home or to wait for the beep to leave a message. But again, writing your roommate email because you are not often in the room at the same time is not an acceptable alternative to "real" communication.