The network society with the characteristics of virtue, share, compactness, interactant and openness consists of cyberspace and the people who act in it.

• 网络社会是由网络空间以及在其间活动的人构成的具有身份虚拟性、资源共享性、时空压缩性、交往互动性和系统开放性等特征的新型社会。