Sunday, December 9, 2012

Jekyll/ Hyde are Anonymous on FB.

“Fifty Shades Grey” is a bland book about pseudo sadomasochism but it’s successful because it dares to talk about the “untellable” on the world forum. This is rare, most of the time; anonymity is still the preferred way to go about it. Like Jekyll and Hyde one apparently good and the other evil, a struggle between his dual personalities. You see, it is really very simple. All you have to do is make up an alias and surf the most sinful websites that your heart desires. Chat with other aliases and indulge in the kind of role play that your partner, your family, your society or for that matter even the ‘social’ you might not allow. You are free in this space. Free of the person that the world knows. On a micro blogging site, you can see the strangest aliases for people, and these aliases take it upon themselves to comment freely, rudely, hurtfully, and even downright sadistically to people and their situations. Yet what is important here is that they need the cloak of anonymity to say all those terrible things. They would never dare to say the things without being invisible. Meanness is too cowardly to stem from the person the world knows. It has to be delivered in stealth. And yet the most common use of anonymity is the internet and sex sites, which to my mind are the cleverest device invented by man. You can be who you want to be, and be really who you are! And the hypo critical person who judges him is always somebody else. Oh, for crying out loud. What a complex web we weave on the World Wide Web. All of us are two people, completely opposite levels of morality. All of us hiding from others. All of us judging the other, battling between the good and evil within. Can this get more muddled? I doubt it. Anonymity brings out our real selves.

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