Article that presents a reflection about the narrow association that now is processed between computer/Internet and social conducts. One of the clearest aspects is related to the cultivation of a sociability type that we can denominate as being "virtual". That concept appears of the encounter certain characteristics. On a side we have the presence of sociability practices to the "classic" way, being maintained by the encounter face to face. Of other, it is present the especific generated by such technology: the presence of the graphic interface as mediator of the social encounter.
Internet; new technologies; sociability virtual; urban anthropology
