Some people feel bolder to address certain issues with certain people in an email than in face to face. That's because an email compresses some boundaries. Other people use internet to escape into a different existence than that of a real life. Yet others hide behind anonymity to adopt a different persona to chat with people, or to assume an opposite gender to play in MUDs.
While we all have different selves & play different roles in life -and while we forge our identities especially throughout adolescence the prevalent thought is at some point in our life we must have an identity. But the internet has proven that a great number of people would like to keep bouncing between different selves. Is this helpful to these people? Are they forging new identities or are they keeping themselves in perpetual conflict within themselves?
2006-11-04 08:21:20 · 2 answers · asked by colette H 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
They're learning what it would be like. Building up experience. If they like what they see, maybe they'll model themselves after that persona. If not, they move onto something else.
It gives people a chance to live a second life without screwing up the one they already have.
2006-11-04 08:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it all depends on the erson using it.
2006-11-04 16:22:29 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Cornbread 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋