Comments on: Confidence 2.0 http://www.flotsky.org/2006/05/confidence-20/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed just another geek Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:37:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: 200factoryfarmedcamels http://www.flotsky.org/2006/05/confidence-20/#comment-153 200factoryfarmedcamels Fri, 19 May 2006 21:58:00 +0000 http://flotsky.org/2006/05/18/confidence-20/#comment-153 I find that when I'm guarded on blogs and or boards, it's not because of what I might reveal to people I don't know, it's the awareness that people I <I>do</I> know also read it. But there is a strange half-life that some people communicate on the web - the need to confess/boast/confide - I know things about the personal and sex life of people I've met a couple of times in a bar that I don't know about people I see once or twice a month. I find that when I’m guarded on blogs and or boards, it’s not because of what I might reveal to people I don’t know, it’s the awareness that people I do know also read it. But there is a strange half-life that some people communicate on the web – the need to confess/boast/confide – I know things about the personal and sex life of people I’ve met a couple of times in a bar that I don’t know about people I see once or twice a month.

]]> By: The Prumeister http://www.flotsky.org/2006/05/confidence-20/#comment-152 The Prumeister Fri, 19 May 2006 15:40:00 +0000 http://flotsky.org/2006/05/18/confidence-20/#comment-152 I personally think that garnering everything with one's identity is alomst egotistical to a point. For me, part of the 'joy' of the internet is its anonymity. I would no more post my picture on t'internet than I would walk with my bare arse down Oxford High Street. That said, I do think there can be a bit of hysteria present when talking about kids posting stuff online - it's not as if they're suddenly going to be stalked by rampant paedos or anything. Why is it so important to prove your true identity anyway? Any sites/blogs that one might have would surely not need that verification anyway? Just my thoughts. I personally think that garnering everything with one’s identity is alomst egotistical to a point. For me, part of the ‘joy’ of the internet is its anonymity. I would no more post my picture on t’internet than I would walk with my bare arse down Oxford High Street.

That said, I do think there can be a bit of hysteria present when talking about kids posting stuff online – it’s not as if they’re suddenly going to be stalked by rampant paedos or anything.

Why is it so important to prove your true identity anyway? Any sites/blogs that one might have would surely not need that verification anyway? Just my thoughts.

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