Online Anonymity

Talking about anonymity, in networks taking on different personas individual can communicate without their actual identity. Even when persons are talking on a phone or face to face they can lie about who they actually are. Online anonymity is often in  a natural estate. Person must have to identify the actual user id wear another person identity. Problem of integrity is created by anonymity. Anonymity arises form the reproducibility of the information. Because of their reproducibility, one can use others word and use it as their own word. In ordinary space effort is necessary to record where as in computer network effort is generally needed to delete an action. In computer networks anonymity and reproducibility seems to be favored. Author’s three special characteristics of communication directly or indirectly lead to problems online. Even though people are geographically far in distance they can harass someone, steal which can affect lots of people. For example -anonymity creates a veil so people are not afraid to express their personal views or ideas.

 When people are communicating online they have much more reach then when they are doing something offline. With in a second lot of messages could be send to various people around the world. Scope would be special by the combination of these three factors- speed, number of individual reached and availability to individuals. Talking about the scope of the power, it has much more greater power than the action in ordinary life. For example if I have to invite people for a gathering I could simply write an invitation message and it would reach to lots of people in a very short time.The originator of the information would not notice and information by that person can be reproduced online. When a person reproduce via copying machine the originator of the information will not even noticed as there will be no evidence that somebody has copied it. Cameras and photocopy machines are used to reproduce information in ordinary life. For example when some reproduce someone personal property by taking a photograph via camera.