To make up for the weeks I was away, do let me get on with my WHY SERIES.
How does ANONYMITY empower you?
People have done it for quite some time now. They've written about "why do people blog" and I just can't get over the WHY part. I've been thinking about this lately, and I realized, with all the replies to "what you won't reveal" via silverwhisper, that people are scared of revealing their identities.
I may have read a lot into it, but I'm on a roll. Correct me later. Anonymity empowers people. I, for one, have been blogging for some time now and only two handfulls of people know about my site.
I confess that I stick to SoulCast because of the simplicity of its system.
No pictures, no emails, no personal profiles, and the like, revealing even the barest hint of the writer's identity. Beautiful. It gives me an avenue to write about absolutely EVERYTHING - say how I feel about certain things, events, and most of all, PEOPLE - and nobody's toes will be stepped on.
I must say, it has been liberating.. and overwhelming.
SoulCast has given me a voice - albeit a small one - and accepted me into a community with a diverse background. I have people replying to entries that are trivial to me, yet they take me seriously. King's to you, dearest reader!
I have found a small haven for a troubled mind, bursting with questions... thirsty for a kind of world only the internet can accomplish of making. [grin]
With blissful anonymity, I can talk about all sorts of things, and you may never know.. I may be our country's president's daughter. [evil laugh]
I'm kidding.
anarchist posted on Sep 18, 2006
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silverwhisper said on Sep 18, 2006....
anonymity empowers me to be all of who i am, not a small facet. the problem w/ most discussion forums is that they're generally themed and no matter how much that theme is important to me, it's still but a facet of who i am.
that restriction is not present here, and as some of my interests are not the kind i particularly am anxious to discuss w/ someone who knows who i am, well...
o, and i do have a serious inability to STFU. :>
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anarchist said on Sep 18, 2006....
I appreciate the acronym else I would have deleted you. Heh.
And yes, I feel the same way: that certain discussion forums stunt whatever personality you may otherwise show.
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defector said on Apr 26, 2007....
i guess blogs work the same way like "second life"? haha... its just a place where we can be the bitches and the who-know-what-you-are when we can't be in real life.as long its my life. its not political. its mine. and people wouldn't know who I am.. by just reading words..though some possess the ability to break you down through reading your post.. and know your innerself. its complicated.. I can write real crude stuff here. I can write sex in BOLD here on my blogs (more than one) this are things that are not socially accepted in an asian community. -
silverwhisper said on Apr 26, 2007....
i wonder what ever happened to anarchist.
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