Hey guys I've been reading about identity online and like face to face ID it seems who we are is mostly liquid. There are rules granted, rules like the negative response I would get from my friends if I wore a dress or anything that would cause discomfort for the society within which I live.
You could say that was not a problem when you're only visible in text (online).
Someone somewhere said "no one knows you're a dog in cyberspace" but as much as dogs can't type a middle aged man can have as much insight into the persona of a tennage girl as is possible and he can still not fully pull off becoming one online as much as in real form.
Experiment: I pretended to be a girl; Charm-20 years old
New Zealand Maori
(native Polynesian)
Varsity student
My cousin and like a
sister to me
After collecting enough conversation for Charm to read and respond to I asked her to look for things that would give me away.
There were many indications that I was not a girl and even more that indicated my true identity.
The best thing that Charm after reading the chat text of a bit of flirting with a boy racer said "I would have got offline as soon as the guy said do you have sexy photos!"
Charm felt that she had never thought about who she was much but after some contemplation she was sure herself was changed by the contemplation.
So there it is with every insight into ID two more exceptions, exemptions or alterations are added and as fickle as the weather, how self is for you (in cyber or fibre) is forever changing, forever liquid.
With that in mind can I ask you all to think about the rules of ID and self-concept, awareness, esteem and disclosure. Put that next to the self you are right here right now (how about the next 24 hrs at least) and find what are the exceptions, exemptions and alterations obvious to you.
Let us all know what you come up with, help me find a rock, a raft, a piece of floating flotsum to cling to in this sea of possibilities called ID, who in cyber-infinity am I?
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