Anonymity

Anonymity is one thing that the web gives us, or appears to give us, anyone can feel as though they can say what they want, because no one can catch them, we can tell someone on msn that we are a supermodel or the centrefold of the latest playboy mag, of corse they probably are not stupid enough to believe it, but then again, there are a lot of stupid people out there, and in all reality, the latest centrefold would use the internet, and have msn and a myspace page somewhere. But we are not as anonymous as we seem to be. We have ip addresses, spyware pretend anti virus viruses, internet governing bodies, and only a few cables linking countries internets that can be tapped, wireless connections that armature children hack into. We leave ourselves pray, posting online, revealing ourselves for who we are, or who we would like to be, sometimes just who we want others to think we are. But for all our pretend even given the fact that our international myspace ‘friends’ will never know who we really are, there are hints and personality traits that show through that some people can pick up on in even a fake internet personality. It is when we scare ourselves with who our internet personality has become that we may need to give it a rest, and just be ourselves, without the ip address, with the raised eyebrows understood, and that worried look, like a beginner ice addict with sunken eyes gets noticed, where what we say and do has consequences (other than the number in the friends box), where we laugh out loud rather than lol and if its something really funny our stomach hurts from it.