An intelligent account of what a persona could mean.
The author is a person into the cyber world.
Some members here are trying to impose the revelation of somebody's identity
when the person in question might have more than serious reasons to keep his
identity under the
"Private protection regulation".
I myself never abused anyone. But many are abusing me.
How do we face this aspect?
Sue
>
>there are many reasons for adopting personae and i've come across lots
>of interesting examples. i know people who use personae to discover or
>explore aspects of themselves, or to experience life outside their
>allotted "subclass" [like women who wish to be taken seriously and
>avoid abuse, etc. one woman i know resorted to a "genderless persona"
>and was amazed by the total absence of backchannel hassle from the male
>members of lists to which she posted]. i know people who do it to avoid
>stalking and others who do it because they find a greater ease of
>social interaction online than they do offline and wish to leave behind
>the inertia of offline selves.
>
>there are also those who have things to say which certain others would
>rather were not said. lots of people have very restrictive employment
>contracts these days. also, given that on poetry lists a lot of the
>members are publishers, editors, reviewers, pals, etc, then speaking
>out could be considered quite foolhardy for some. i like to see
>personae on lists because they can resist the consensi which tend to
>dominate and oppress minorities.
>
>personae can be used for mischief of course, and i don't condone such
>use, but personae are not the only listfolk who behave badly, by any
>means. and if any persona user breaks the law they are as accountable
>as anyone else - in that sense true anonymity is difficult to achieve.
>
>hotmail is just a convenient free [webmail] service - there are many
>other services [including countless free accounts, and not to mention
>the "lifetime email address" type of service which offer numerous
>different email address formats]. thus to ban hotmail addresses would
>simply make it more difficult to identify personae and lead eventually
>to a long list of banned domains, a list which needed to be updated
>constantly [like virus software]. things get even sillier further down
>this road.
>
> >> Perhaps, in the context of Roddy's original post, people with
> >> hotmail accounts shouldn't be allowed to join. These fakers always
> >> seem to have them, don't they?
>
>why must we always look for ways to exclude? we are all free to filter
>the cyberstream according to our own sensibilities. all i know of you
>is what i see on my screen - your "persona". you'd laugh if you saw
>yourself as i see you. [or maybe you wouldn't.]
>
>regards
>
>steve
>
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