Anonymous for a week!

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  Lyam
  WHO THE F is IT???
  
  
  
  Iam
  Lyam?! :$
  Hi!
  Rhea! :$
  Sorry~
  
  
  
  
  Lyam
  LOL !!!!!!!!!!!
  You changed your name???
  
  
  
  Iam
  Yes!
  Did I scare you?!
  I'm so sorry!
  
  
  
  Lyam
  Noooo not at all
  
  
  
  Iam
  Okay!
  
  
  
  Lyam
  Just that I was thinking to myself: ‘’How the f did this person get into my friend list?”
  
  
  
  Iam
  I've been having this type of reaction ever since I decided to go identity-less!
  Oww Yes- I understand that feeling!
  
  
  
  Lyam
  Oh I see..experimental thing ?
  
  
  
  Iam
  Yes! I'm currently trying to decipher the things behind an identity!
  
  Lyam
  Ooohhhh good ... there's pretty much work to put in it to come to a conclusion ....if ever there's one !!!!!
  
  
  Iam
  There'll BE ONE!
  
  Lyam
  Oookkk if you come to a conclusion BLOG IT GIRL !!!!
  
  
  Iam
  I will!
  Thanks for the encouragement!
  Gorgeous Lyam! :*
    
   
  

  If you read the conversation I had with a friend above and still didn't get a thing- well, last week- I decided to experiment a bit. It was trigerred after I had this debate with a fellow commentor who made me acknowledge things about identity- and My, my! Was I startled?! So, I got to my cyber space and started to knot things- I changed my name to "Iam WhoIam", went profile pictureless and remove my cover banner- basically, at first glance nobody could decipher who you really were unless they went through the records of things.

But this whole process was a great insight. Obviously it was the closest friends who resorted to asking things- but to this +Lyam Ramloll  - you nailed it, I mean- I truthfully never thought that anyone would be able to understand what I was trying to do! I know that perhaps Rushaa thought I was going through those Conversations with God's phases all over again and +Priya Bhirgoo got scared stiff!

Co-incidentally, it was the week where I was carrying out the "interviews" so I had to go around inboxing people for proposals! And that was awesome sauce because most of them took time to recognize who I was-and others changed their tone of speech once they knew who I was.


Number 1: People react to different people, differently! So your identity matters!

•                                                                 Yusrahposted to‎Iam WhoIam

  July 24

  So this is you magnificent Rheaaaaa 

•                                                                   Rushaaposted to‎Iam WhoIam

  July 22

  
  

  iam wholam? seriously?O.o
• I think your identity is important because it’s the image that represents yourself throughout a particular cyber space — to your current & potential followers.

  About the Profile Picture. It appears in:

  1. the News feed of your followers
  2. Posts on your page’s Timeline
  3. Replies in comments
  4. Comments & posts you make on other pages while using your page
  5. the Cover photo on your Timeline

  
  

  Number 2: Social-media profiles are increasingly important in building your identity. 
• "It's a hugely powerful branding tool—and you have to be very strategic about it!" When you visit Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, the chances are that the profile picture of the individual you are looking at jumps out at you before you read any text. But in that fraction of a second you have already decided whether or not this is the kind of person you want to connect with – almost regardless of what their profile actually reveals. Even though the number one activity online is reading text, with writing text a close second, tiny little images appear to have a major impact on our social networking behaviour. This I have known! 
• As days passed-  
• Number 3: Hyper-connectivity diminished! 
• Which I found interesting! It was as if people connected to you for you- for they knew you. Obviously who would be interested in talking to something of somebody who resembles this: 
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• For the least we could think- it could be the account of a pedophile or some irrational person who's actually damn depressed, suicidal and is on a social networking site and doesn't want to socialise!
• The typical image of it in our minds could be:
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•  There's enormous facility to show a photograph as a profile picture and unless there is a good reason for anonymity, most people have a picture of themselves in place. And perhaps it's one of the reasons why people expect your identity to be fully revealed?!
• Number 4: I have noticed in this one week that the anonymity of One weakens the power of the Other, for the Other cannot make elaborate judgments except for the mind level which is the sole aspect presented in the cyber space. Physical attributes, personal background information etc are all deleted as if they had never existed!
• Number 5: I got this feeling that the others felt like they were being Cyberbullied! This is often attributed to relative Internet anonymity, due to the fact that potential offenders are able to mask their identities and prevent themselves from being caught. ( Sorry for scaring you people out!)
  
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• Wikipedia:
• In psychology and sociology, identity is a person's conception and expression of their own (self-identity) and others' individuality or group affiliations (such as national identity and cultural identity). The concept is given a great deal of attention in social psychology and is important in place identity. A social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group.

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