- What your perceived as
- How we represent ourselves to others
- Online representation (Facebook, etc)
- Gaming avatars (virtual)
- Social networks - Mediated version
- Online relationships - distant/fleeting
- Fictionalised lives/characters
The idea of our online identities is a strange one because we feel as though we try not to be too different from our real selves. However, every persona that we have on the internet is a representation of our real selves. We do not always reveal everything about ourselves when it comes to things like social networking sites or avatars. This is something that people may do to get away from their real lives and have fantasy lives because real life isn't that exciting. However this could be seen as fraud because you may be pretending to be something you are not and this could confuse people.
We had a look at Weavrs; a site that allows you to create bots that can interact through social networks online such as Twitter. We created one each but they didn't really work because there were a few glitches. However, this did give us the chance to see what it is like creating something like a fake profile. It is interesting that such things exists because you wonder what they are used for other than experiments.
Personally, I wouldn't make such a thing in my spare time because I think it is a waste of time. I much prefer to just have one persona on the internet and that is one that I try to make as realistic as possible without it physically being me. I just hope that nobody has used one of these fake 'bots' on me!
Speak soon!
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