Telecommunications worldwide have experienced rapid change since the accessibility to emails and
e-commerce facilities were made easily and readily available to the common citizens starting in the
early 1990s. Such e-communication got legalized with the European conventions on Information Technology,
which was followed by some developed and less developed nations. E-communication gained
popularity among men and women in a short span of time. Along with the emails came the electronic
ways to express and expose oneself in front of a large global audience through their personal blogs,
personal and professional websites, digital albums, electronic banking, and shopping facilities, which
became hugely popular with homemakers; and then electronic socialization, which literally turned human
beings to e-living.
Human relations have considerably improved since the beginning of the public usage of emails, chat
rooms, public forums, popular websites, and social networking websites. Seeing from the perspective
of third wave feminism and usage of the electronic media to practice third wave feminism, women of
post millennium era are more benefited than their predecessors belonging to the second and first wave
feminism. The digital media created a huge platform for women of Web 2.0 era to expand their world
to build new relationships, renew old friendships, and practice and profess own ideologies about various
issues including feminism. The digital era witnessed new phase of feminism whereby women who
belonged to more orthodox patriarchal societies were now enabled to practice self dependence norms
through electronic shopping, “digital awareness camps” (blogs and open forums) for healthcare and
baby care, higher education, modes to transform leisurely passions into profitable professions, et cetera.
Ironically, this digital freedom also made women unknowingly / knowingly open Pandora’s Box and
explore the evil side of the Internet. Indeed, the “box” was opened long back, but it successfully hid its
whiff of inside-danger for a long time. Media reports on morphed pornographic images of female movie
stars, cyber stalking female celebrities, blackmailing female celebrities through email or mobile phones,
et cetera, provide us some good examples of victimization of women in the cyber space. However, until
recently, common Internet users, including adult men and women (especially) never realized that such
mischief can happen to them.