As you all know i am just a little bit nosey, and therefore once having set up a blogspot i found myself looking through blogs of people that i do not know. Firstly, i feel that it is quite scary how many people that are on the site. It is so popular to say that i had never even heard of blogspot before. However, I feel that having looked through many of the peoples blogs one thing occurred to me, even though this person may have a picture they can create their own image of themselves with writing anything that they want. Take me for instance. I have a picture and I'm smiling and i just look like another young woman who likes to dress up and go out and have a good time (0r well that is just my opinion of that picture) however if someone was then to read what i am writing about Goebell and his opinions on radio etc. hey might think wait a minute i was not expecting that. Is any of this making sense?
I feel that the Internet whether it is an email, website, blog, anything, with the Internet you can be who ever you want to be. To me that is quite scary. Looking at the bad side of things you have issues with paedophiles pretending to be 15 when really they are 45 waiting for its next victim. People can manipulate anybody on the Internet and unfortunately it is becoming more and more popular. In addition, partners can have an affairs on the internet telling people that they aren't married when they could be. To me, when i meet a stranger no matter where it is on the internet i am very weary of who they actually are, with or without a picutre.
However, when it comes to authority i feel that there is sometimes a secure system set in place. I dont quite know how blogspot works with safety, but on facebook i know that if someone or something for that matter is offending, or scaring you in anyway you can report it. Therefore, even though there are issues with the internet, safety is also establishing itself to become more powerful and authoritive.
Do you feel safe when using the internet? and in relation to what i said about identity, have you ever told anything to anyone that was not true about you? Did you create yourself a different identity?
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This identity thing is like the immersive interactivity, with websites and games encouraging people to create themselves, and meet other people through 3D versions of themselves. Whilst is most cases this can be seen as pretty harmless, it is blurring the boundaries of real life and virtual life? Like you say it is easy for people to create a new version of themself for the internet, and if its for innocent escapism purposes then fair enough, but as i said on my other comment..it could be taking the user away from living their life in the real world and allowing them to change their writing and speaking style to the online version, and if this is overused it could affect their communication in the real world.
ReplyDeleteHow people can be whoever they want to be on the Internet can make people feel quite free and that they can be themselves, but it is also, in my opinion, quite a scary concept. I read an article a few weeks ago about a couple that had a divorce after one of them found their partner cheating on the other on an online 'other-world' programme, I think it was called 'Second Life.' The couple had created online versions of their ideal selves and lived 'virtual lives' online. In my personal view, this is taking it all a bit too far. People are starting to live online rather than reality, and there is a question of how good this really is for society.
ReplyDeleteomg that is quite scary. but then again we can go into the whole debate over the film the matrix and things like this. are we really here? is it a virtual world? lol right ill leave it there...too deep for me
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