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Dueling Identities: The ethics of web names

thewastedspace.blogspot.com — If you want to be a serious professional on the web, then you've got quite a bit of slack regarding the main audience, which is solely on the Internet. If you want to be a professional in any other medium and still write on the web, readers in the community could realistically misconstrue anything you do...

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  • junebuggery, on 04/27/2008, -0/+2Besides heralding, of course, the dawn of man's first true Age of Complex Anonymity, the internet has ironically also made it easy to become more yourself. After all, it's kind of difficult to expand who you are in front of people who have known you closely for some time, but communicating with people who can't see anything but your words allows you to act out all different parts of yourself without being confronted with shocked disbelief, probably because it's more difficult to act "out of character" within the invisible world of the internet. I think I'm more completely myself to the people I meet online than the ones physically around me (although I wish that weren't true).
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