Sites like this and forums and suchlike are all about voices. People now have a chance to speak on the internet without prejudice yet lots of people seem to want to put their picture on everything and force others to do so. Most of these people don't use their own picture anyway.
I guess my point is people should realise all is not what it seems on the net and that's not always a bad thing. Discuss if you wish.
2007-01-12 15:40:37 · 9 answers · asked by D.F 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Beware of the Y Gestapo discussing is prohibited :-)
I accept the faceless nature of the internet.
Don't you just love my avatar though? :-)
2007-01-14 01:57:13 · answer #1 · answered by Banshee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Couldn't agree more D.F. It seems to me that the Internet isn't just a network of computers connected together, it is a network of people operating the computers. Like every other technological invention, this is neutral in it's benefit for mankind, it is how we use it that matters. Unfortunately the Internet seems to have decended to the lowest common demoniator - porn and stupidity. The anononimity should be a great leveller for people - access is race, gender, social class and political presepective free - it allows equal access to all. It seems however that it's strength is also it's weakness. People have difficulty accepting anonimity and want to kow what people look like. They make judgement calls based on avatars and names. Some people just don't realise that sites like this aren't fact, it is a fiction, it's full of people who are adopting different personas and are not like they are in real life. The people on it shouldn't be taken at face value. Some people don't use the internet as a wonderful technological resource and filter information from it - they accept the "personalities" that are presented and attach their views to them. Sites like answers are great fun, but a really the low point of the internet, opossed to say Wikipedia which is closer to the "true" vision of the web - Wikipedia is largely anonoums and as such no one is promoting their own agenda on it. The internet offers great oppurtunties, but with this comes possibilites that peole are not what they seem. This can be manipulated both for good and bad, the worrying thing is how many people are unable or unprapred to accept this.
2007-01-14 01:05:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer is that words are the most powerful thing on earth my friend. And controlling them is new to most people. The anonymity of it of course causes the sophomoric rhetoric to bloom. All people have the power to make them but few ever learn to CONTROL them. The ignorant are always with us. I wouldn't have it any other way and it has ALWAYS been this way this too is just another way to communicate albeit more complex than ever seen in history.
2007-01-12 16:01:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You would think that with the anonymity of the net that people would be more courageous standing up for the principles they believe in. Yet what I have noticed is the complete opposite. Cowards come out of the woodwork and attack the oppressed through slanderous baiting sessions where they come up with factoids and distort them to fit the view of their narrow minded bias ideals. I am actually quite shocked and how racism, sexism, and ageism are blatantly practiced. Anonymity brings about cruelty.
2007-01-12 15:46:15 · answer #4 · answered by Elle M 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people are ignorant enough to believe that what they're seeing in the avatar could be a reflection of how that person really looks. I think people just get desperate.
2007-01-12 15:50:43 · answer #5 · answered by Eric Shun 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i like the fact that the internet is anonymous... but i also like to see what the people that i am talking to look like, or at least a cartoon or something which depicts them or their personality... i put up my picture because i am a very open person who doesn't really care what others think of me... but if a person decides that they want to remain totally anonymous, then that is their perogative... but chances are that they are only doing so because they are fugly... :P
2007-01-13 07:55:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I just don't want to be fake and/or pretend to be someone/something I'm not. I show the pictures so I can be identified as like a real human and not some username or body of text.
2007-01-12 15:44:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem using my actual photo for my avatar. I am a very good looking person don't you think? :)
2007-01-12 15:50:36 · answer #8 · answered by Zeek 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they try talking into the pc monitor and get confused.
2007-01-12 15:45:15 · answer #9 · answered by user name 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋