A Study of the Horizons and Intricacies of Cyberspace and Internet and their Impact on the Moral Education with Reference to Social Networks

Technology and its last achievements, technology of information, exercise a wide and considerable influence on various fields of human life including education. Moreover, its horizons and intricacies are apt to be assessed from different aspects such as moral education. Hence, the main objective of the present article is to explore the horizons and intricacies of cyberspace and internet and assess its impact on moral education. The following questions are to be answered: what is the relationship between cyberspace and internet with moral education? What are the horizons and intricacies of cyberspace and internet for moral education? The methodology of the article is analytic-descriptive and enjoys a qualitative content. The outcomes of the research indicate that the most important horizons of the cyberspace and internet are: easy accessibility to information sources on moral education, teaching moral issues through cyberspace, bringing about cooperation and enhancing social spirit, the existence of cultural varieties, enforcement of collective rationality and free speech and thoughts. Moreover, its most important problems are: deconstruction, augmentation of social solitude, the danger of the formation of abnormal entities, endangering the teaching of important human values, destruction of the identities rather than construction of the identities, bringing about cyberspace intimacies, spread of the culture of immorality and breaching privacy of people.