Sign-on Names on the World Wide Web (www)
I don’t use my real name when posting to the www.
Actors have stage names, authors use pen names, truckers have handles. Even though these names are not actual, they still create and maintain an identity for the individuals using them.
Unfortunately, sign-on names used on the www have come to be used for the opposite effect. For the criminal, the anonymity of a www sign-on name offers immunity from retribution and escape from justice. For the psychopath it can become a means for living any personal delusion or fantasy. The immature use sign-on’s in a desperate game for attention. The coward can now be offensive, rude, accusatory, hateful, provocative, brash or abusive without fear of personal retaliation.
I don’t use my real name when posting to the www. Real names are used everyday by real people. People who have families, have titles, carry reputations, keep bank accounts, and make money transaction over the www. Real people have names that are shared with others by relation or happenstance. Names that are associated with corporations, products, political causes, and other individuals of notoriety.
Unfortunately, a real name that is available on the www can be associated with other information, tracked down and hacked-out to reveal personal information of a real individual. Character can be assassinated, accounts hacked into, personal property stolen, and security threatened. Real names can be usurped out of vice, or used by criminals to ruin both the good name and the individual it stands for.
Do know that the name you use for sign-on, whatever it may be, represents you as a person. Realize that whatever you type, whatever you submit represents who you truly are inside, regardless of whatever name you used at sign-on. Know who you are when you submit or post. Your posts create the real and true identity for yourself. Are you a psychopath, criminal, juvenile or coward? Or, are you a fellow human being, with some fault and ignorance, but without guile?
I don’t use my real name when posting to the www. But, what I submit is really me.
dras
Actors have stage names, authors use pen names, truckers have handles. Even though these names are not actual, they still create and maintain an identity for the individuals using them.
Unfortunately, sign-on names used on the www have come to be used for the opposite effect. For the criminal, the anonymity of a www sign-on name offers immunity from retribution and escape from justice. For the psychopath it can become a means for living any personal delusion or fantasy. The immature use sign-on’s in a desperate game for attention. The coward can now be offensive, rude, accusatory, hateful, provocative, brash or abusive without fear of personal retaliation.
I don’t use my real name when posting to the www. Real names are used everyday by real people. People who have families, have titles, carry reputations, keep bank accounts, and make money transaction over the www. Real people have names that are shared with others by relation or happenstance. Names that are associated with corporations, products, political causes, and other individuals of notoriety.
Unfortunately, a real name that is available on the www can be associated with other information, tracked down and hacked-out to reveal personal information of a real individual. Character can be assassinated, accounts hacked into, personal property stolen, and security threatened. Real names can be usurped out of vice, or used by criminals to ruin both the good name and the individual it stands for.
Do know that the name you use for sign-on, whatever it may be, represents you as a person. Realize that whatever you type, whatever you submit represents who you truly are inside, regardless of whatever name you used at sign-on. Know who you are when you submit or post. Your posts create the real and true identity for yourself. Are you a psychopath, criminal, juvenile or coward? Or, are you a fellow human being, with some fault and ignorance, but without guile?
I don’t use my real name when posting to the www. But, what I submit is really me.
dras
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