... web-crowds are congregations of people who navigate from within opaque, soundproof bottles. Crowds exist, but they are random, purposeless, socially static, oblivious to each individual member, essentially asleep. They do not influence the individual nor do they serve as havens of anonymity and shared (ir)responsibility: those are offered by the protocol itself. And it is important to remember that we are dealing with personas (or - in terms of the WWW- browser windows) rather than RL, fully immersed people. And still, crowds are there.