I understand the anonyminity (wow bad spelling) of it all, but why do YOU think
2007-05-01 17:20:48 · 15 answers · asked by Flagfield 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I can answer without the fear of being judged. You don't know me. And I don't know you. And If i don't like your opinion of my questions or answers, I don't have to think you are real. And I I do like them, I feel supported. And i never have to see you either way.
2007-05-01 17:26:11 · answer #1 · answered by Morgansmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do people really divulge secrets here? What idiots. Technology destroyed the concept of anonymity.
2007-05-01 17:27:35 · answer #2 · answered by ___ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While living we come across various situations where we have to pose different stances at different time. Not necessarily that we act to the liking of our mind, but the situation demands to behave like that. Our subconscious mind keeps record of such situations and keep on prodding our conscious mind. We therefore feel like opening our mind with some one. But again there is a possibility that a friend with whom we open up may take advantage of things against us at some other time. This makes us to be anonymous and still open up. This relieves us to be fair to our conscious and still out of danger. Did you find it convincing?
2007-05-01 17:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by KVISHWAS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I will bear my soul to a total stranger if I am certain that there will be no consequences, and the best way to ensure that there will be no consequences is if you have no idea who or where I am. Telling my friends something horrible might have a negative affect on their opinion of me, which I don't want. Therefore, it's more satisfying to tell the deepest stuff to those who have no opinion of me, a.k.a. strangers.
2007-05-01 17:30:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like you said, the anonymity of it makes people feel more comfortable talking about things they wouldn't talk to anyone else about. I, personally, don't feel completely comfortable telling all my secrets here because I am a particularly paranoid person and think that someone I know will see it and they will know who I am.
2007-05-01 18:33:12 · answer #5 · answered by meghanhappy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The psychological studies on deindividuation illuminate our understanding of this phenomenon. People tend to shed inhibitions when they are rendered invisible or seem anonymous, that is, when they experience a loss of identity. There is a certain liberation that accompanies a forum of this nature.
2007-05-01 17:32:51 · answer #6 · answered by sokrates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it's the anonymity. People feel safe to reveal themselves here to strangers. To admit things that they may never admit in their daily life to people that they know. We have nothing to lose here.
I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve even out in the world & it sometimes gets me into trouble. You're supposed to wear a mask to some degree, to hide some of who you are so that you fit in within society. If you reveal your vulnerabilities, you open yourself up to attack. But I'm not a very good liar. I don't have the patience to put on a front. What you see is what you get. I have the courage to be who I am. Thought admittedly I am rather shy & certainly wouldn't walk up to a total stranger & start talking about my philosophies on life, yet I feel perfectly free to do it here! Perhaps because I'm a writer, but I find it easier to express myself in text than in person.
I think the internet allows a lot of people to communicate in ways that they don't in "real life". A lot of people meet & start relationships on the net because it allows them to reach a level of intimacy that they wouldn't through old fashioned dates. On a date you might be too nervous to discuss your thoughts, your past etc, yet on the internet you might have in-depth chats about many aspects of your life...It's strange but in a sense we can connect to other people better through a computer than we can face to face. Strangers are disconnected, wrapped up in their own little worlds. They avoid eye contact on the subway or in an elevator. Yet they'll sit at a computer & spill their guts to strangers.
2007-05-01 19:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I can't see you roll your eyes with disgust, hear you click your tongue with judgement, and watch your shrug your shoulders in indifference.... I think you are really "listening" to me... and I am hoping that ONE of you will actually give me an answer worth reading through all of the others to get to....
2007-05-01 17:31:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because for some reason it is easier to say things while you are not face to face...
...the problem with sites like this is there are no real connections between people.
That is a problem within our society.
2007-05-01 17:25:29 · answer #9 · answered by Dilisa T 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fictional names, fictional secrets from novels
2007-05-01 17:24:26 · answer #10 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋