- One reason why people act different online is the sense of anonymity.
- People feel as if they are “invisible” online and cannot be identified.
- Many people treat the internet as a world of make-believe, where everything they do is not real.
- This is why users have their “online identity.”
Distance
- With the Internet, people can communicate with other users all over the world.
- People do things online that they would not normally do in a face-to-face environment
- because the distance feels safe,
- people do not see a direct consequence of what was done.
Cyber Identity
- There are more cyber identities online than the number of users online
- one user can take on different types of personalities.
- YouTube:
- Simply because we can see them, doesn’t mean it’s real.
- i.e., lonelygirl15 is playing a role.
- This role becomes a mask that users believe that is detached from the real world and themselves,
- Most feel that the law and moral conducts do not apply to them.
- This belief is untrue.
- when a cyber identity has done something wrong, the person behind that identity will be punished.
- Online identities will not stop the law from tracing the person behind it
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