Exploring Cyber-Identity and Community in the Modern World

The internet has revolutionized communication by allowing individuals to express themselves through cyber-identities. This essay explores how these identities are formed using avatars or pseudonyms for anonymity, impacting social interactions in digital spaces like social media platforms and forums. It discusses the challenges of verifying online identities and the implications of privacy concerns, as users adopt strategies to manage their personal information disclosure. By examining scholarly insights on technoself studies and the psychological aspects of cyber-identity, this essay highlights how technological advancements are reshaping human identity in contemporary society.

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Cyber-community and Cyber-identity
Undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions in the history of Mankind has been the internet as the
ease through which any regular person is able to access it. The way in which people interacted
and communicated has been indeed radically changed by the introduction of internet where even
telecommunication is possible. The internet which had initially been invented for military used
has in the contemporary world become became a general feature of almost all computer devices
around the world. As the internet can be easily and widely accessed it has become a significant
influence on the society and its individuals. I did not have much knowledge about the
significance of cyberidentity and cybercommunity in the contemporary world. In had a
perception that cyberidentity and cybercommunity are moderate in nature and do not possess any
significant harm to the society. People have been provided a new platform through which they
can express their views and find people who have similar perspectives as it would be difficult for
them to do such activities easily without the use of the internet.
According to Roberts Indermaur and Spiranovic (2013) cyber identity or Internet identity is a
sort of social identity which uses of the Internet create an established in online websites and
communities. Nakamura and Chow (2013) define cyber identity as the actively portrait
presentation of one's personality. I thought that people always choose their real names to
establish their Internet identity however in reality Internet users also prefer to be using different
names and be anonymous through identifying themselves using pseudonyms unrevealing only
certain kind of information through which personality can be identified. The relationship of the
user with certain social group which they are a part of online can also be used to identify the
server identity of a person. Through detailed study on cyber identity I got the knowledge that
some people can also be deceptive in relation to their identity on the Internet. In few online

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context such as online chats massive multiplayer online games Internet forums Internet users
Virtually represent themselves by selecting an avatar which is a graphical image size of icon.
Choosing search avatars maybe a certain kind of way through which the Internet identity is
established. Whether or not The Identity established over the Internet can be trusted is derived
from the interaction of such identity with other users. The association of Cyber identity and
community is mostly through authentication which generally needs login and registration.
Tracking cookies and IP address are also used by a few websites to identify users. The principles
in relation to Cyber identity and how emerging Technology influences it is a subject area of
research in feels like psychology Sociology and education. One of the notable examples is the
online this inhibition effect which refers to the concept of uninhibited and advise behavior over
the Internet which establishes through audience gratification and anonymity.
The Internet provides a space to the users through which they have the possibility of exposing
and expressing their identities in a social context. For instance identity is defined by people
through creation of user profiles in social networking sites like Twitter LinkedIn or Facebook.
More tactic identities are defined when the individuals by providing opinions and blogs over
search social networking sites. There may be a certain issues related to privacy with the
disclosure of cyber identity. Strategies are adopted by many people through which they can
control the disclosure of their personal identity over the Internet. Some of these strategies require
significant investment of efforts. Carpenter, Steeves and Abzarian (2016) states that many
questions have been raised among academic after the emergence of online identity concept. The
concept of Identity have been complicated by online avatars and social networking services. A
domain of scholarly research have been created by academy for responding to such emerging

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trends such as technoself studies which emphasizes on technological societies and human
identity.
In the book building virtual communities Druckenmiller and Mittleman (2015) have explored
online identity emphasizing on the concept of masking identity. It has been pointed out by then
that a Mask of their identity is portrayed by individuals when way interact in social space. The
situation is of no difference in online sites and become increasingly pronounced because of
decisions Di mistake in relation to their online profiles. They have to answer specific questions
in relation to user name address gender age and so on. In addition where once online identity has
accrued The Mask of such person is defined by the way in which they write choose topic and
vocabulary. The type of mass which is elected by a person over the Internet reviews little about
the subject who has selected the mask. This might be called buy one as a metaphor of the mask.
The actual identity of the person is not revealed by the online mask. However some hints of what
actually lies behind the mask are revealed by it. For instance weather person selects to act like a
cricketer the metaphor would you be an interest in cricket. Where a person refers to hide behind
the cyber identity it reveals about that lack of self-esteem and fear behind the false mask
(Nakamura 2013).
By studying the above literature my perspective about cyber community and cyber identity
significantly changed. There is a deep study in relation to the identification of human beings
which have recently emphasized on Internet identity. Just like people use a mask in the society
they also do it over the Internet to portray themselves as one which they are not. Some people
also use Internet identity to indulge in criminal activities and hide the real identity so that they
can avoid being caught. I also got to know that the mask which people use with respect to Cyber
identity and community they will something about the actual personality. Strategies are adopted

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by many people through which they can control the disclosure of their personal identity over the
Internet. Some of these strategies require significant investment of efforts. A domain of scholarly
research have been created by academy for responding to such emerging trends such as
technoself studies which emphasizes on technological societies and human identity. I got to
know that internet identity is rapidly penetrating the Australian society and taking over the
concept of social identity at a great pace.

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