Are you one of those people who, when someone calls them on their cell phone and they are not alone, mechanically turn towards the wall in order to provide the desired privacy to the conversation? And how many times have you yourself found yourself in the unpleasant (and perhaps pleasant) situation of listening to a conversation that you obviously shouldn't hear?
When you want to preserve privacy defensively (turning to the wall and whispering), you could say you're right. But when you just want to "glue" someone, without it being known that you did it, you're just a scoundrel running away from responsibility. And the internet, especially social networks, is seen by many as an ideal place for this kind of rascality. Who then justify, in vain, many lofty goals and interests.
In order to properly understand any information we find on the Internet, we must put it in the proper context. When you read the comments below the articles on News.net, you will be surprised how many people took the "news" seriously. Because they didn't come to it looking for satirical content, they were interested in a title on a social network.
It's the same with anonymous comments. When you don't know who the author is (is he a dog, as was once popularly said about Internet anonymity), then you don't know what weight the comment carries. It's the same with insults, when you don't know if someone is "calling you names" who has no right to do so. I guess it is clear that no one has the right to insult, neither publicly nor anonymously.
That is why many internet portals (for example Huffington Post) have decided to leave identity verification to someone else, say Facebook. To leave a comment, you must first have a Facebook profile and log in to the site through it. No big deal, you'll think, I can create an equally fake profile on that Facebook too.
Well, it won't be quite like that. First of all, by opening an account on Facebook, you leave a lot of information about yourself, first of all the IP address from which you access, some of the emails you use. No matter how much you hide your tracks, when some slightly more powerful computer system crosses your path, somewhere it will step on you as a real being and from there, if necessary, the ball can be unwound. Also, the latest approach is digital forensics. Your behavior on the Internet can be analyzed, the way you write, speed, mistakes, links you click on even when you are "falsely" registered, and whoever needs to (knows, knows and has the resources) can recognize you with good certainty using digital fingerprints .
But that is already in the domain of serious services. For us, ordinary users, it is important that when we see a comment that intrigued us, we can also check the context, that is, look at the author's profile. If the profile is suspicious, just opened, with few friends or followers and no personal information, then it says that it is purposeful and irrelevant. No matter how much vanity stings us.
So you can still be a dog on the internet. Only now we know whether you are a terrier or a shepherd, how old you are and your teeth and whether you have fleas. Which is not insignificant if you refer to hygiene in the comments.
