As we know that each person do have at least one identity, that is the resident of a country. For example I was born in Hong Kong, than I got a Hong Kong resident identity card, this is to distinguish us from others, to show that we were not the same, the identity is to represent ourself only. Possessing this identity, we can do many things such as travel to other countries, making up a company, even after commit to a crime, you will be the only one who go to a prison. So an official identity giving by the government is the one who can represent us most. And getting this identity do have a close confinement. Even many social network and companies require you first apply a identity from their own,such as the bank, youth center,etc, the very first thing you should get your official identity card before getting another identity from other organization.
However, nowadays on line technology develop in a very fast speed, different on line applications such as Msn, facebook, email, blogger, youtube, on line forum, etc, also require you to first become their member before enjoying their service. So to simplify our life by using all these on line services, we usually got many different accounts and identities. And all these on line application and services are mostly social networks tools in order to connect people together and sharing data. So people start to have many different identities in the Internet world. While they applying their account, they do not need to provide their official identity, so even you get their on line information and identity, you can not find them in real life, those identity is just virtual.
So nowadays, people are getting more and more identities than before, and most of these identities are virtual and cannot be chasing back in real life. By possessing these virtual identities, you can do large variety things on line and no need to bear responsibilities.
To conclude, as identity was used to be to distinguish us from each other, however as more and more on line identities can be apply, identity is becoming complex.
Other questions to discuss.
1) How many on line identities do you have?
I do got many on line identities, such as Msn, facebook, email (3-4), youtube, forum, blogger,etc.
2) In what ways are they different to your "in person" identity?
While applying the on line identities, most of them only require you to provide a email address and some basic information, however, you can still provide some fake information, then you can easily get a identity on line. Besides, you can also apply more that one identities from the same party, Comparing to personal identity, it is much close in confinement, all the information you provide must be real ( by providing different certificates), and you can only apply one, on the other hand, there would be records if we have done something such as crimes.
3) What are some benefits of expressing ones' identity on line?
They can develop their ideas, thinking and comments on line. Also people's social networks are strongly strengthen.
4) What are some risks?
People may do some negative slanders, attacks on line. Besides, they may commit some crimes, such as fraud someone through msn, icq, facebook; and afterward difficult to chase due to the information provided were faked.
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