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Online vs Cybersuicide - What's the difference?

online | cybersuicide |

As an adjective online

is describes a system which is connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.

As an adverb online

is describes actions performed over the Internet.

As a noun cybersuicide is

suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.

online

English

(wikipedia online)

Alternative forms

* on-line

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Describes a system which is connected (generally electrically) to a larger network.
  • # Describes a generator or power plant which is connected to the grid.
  • # Describes a computer which is connected to the Internet or to some other communications service – i.e., not simply with the cable plugged in, but has established a connection to a larger network (e.g., by dialing up).
  • Available over, or delivered from, the Internet.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=No hiding place
    • , date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.}}
  • Connected to the Internet.
  • Available on a computer system, even if not networked.
  • Describes a system that is active, particularly building facilities (such as power) or a factory or power plant.

    • Antonyms

    * (connected to larger network) offline * (available on a computer system) hardcopy

    Derived terms

    * massive open online course (MOOC)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Describes actions performed over the Internet.
    • He works online .

    See also

    * come online

    Anagrams

    * ----

    cybersuicide

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Suicide assisted by computer technology, such as suicide committed by several people simultaneously after meeting on the Internet.
  • * 2008 , Megan-Jane Johnstone, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective
    • Reports such as these have underscored public health concerns about a cybersuicide epidemic...
  • * 2009 , John Haffner, Tomas Casas i Klett, Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Japan's Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship
    • There are also very dark chapters that have opened with the disturbing phenomenon of "cybersuicide," in which strangers meet online, form group suicide pacts, and then meet in person to execute their macabre plan together.
  • The deliberate destruction of one's own online persona.
  • * 2004 , Patricia R Schroeder, Robert Johnson, mythmaking, and contemporary American culture
    • Self-constructed personae online (unlike the offline variety) can be abandoned or re-created at will; cybersuicide may simply provide the clearest path to a fresh start.