[ABSTRACT] This is a cualitative research that has the objective of understanding the systemic and estructural reality of the ?online being? phenomenon. In order to achieve this, phenomenologic and hermeneutic-dialectic methods were used for content analisys of the discourse of three individual subjects, all of them Internet users. Departing from the description of the user´s experiences on cyberspace, virtual communities and virtual identities, a tentative theoretical model was formulated in o