Comments on: Online Identities: Where Fake is the Real http://scrawledinwax.com/2008/01/30/online-identities-where-fake-is-the-real/ WHERE MODERN THINGS MELT INTO OTHER MODERN THINGS Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:38:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pants on Fire « Karasu http://scrawledinwax.com/2008/01/30/online-identities-where-fake-is-the-real/#comment-743 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:59:36 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=196#comment-743 [...] age, or real life circumstances of those you talk with, befriend, or love in a virtual world. Scrawled in Wax writes about this topic of online identities.  Anyone can fabricate anything and you just have to [...]

]]> By: Michael Alan Miller » In some worlds, I’m a girl http://scrawledinwax.com/2008/01/30/online-identities-where-fake-is-the-real/#comment-732 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:12:51 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=196#comment-732 [...] by Chill on 31 Jan 2008 at 07:12 am | Tagged as: Uncategorized Interesting post here about online identities in virtual [...]

]]> By: Nav http://scrawledinwax.com/2008/01/30/online-identities-where-fake-is-the-real/#comment-731 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:16:42 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=196#comment-731 Thanks for the comment Udayan! Yeah, re-reading my post I think I was kinda’ pussyfooting around just saying that online identities reveal the murky, messy unconscious stuff that swirls around in everyone. I’ve been reading Freud and Baudrillard, so that’s what got me thinking about this – that ‘the real’ is a fiction and that, if one accepts that, then fantasy becomes more useful as a marker of identity than the real. I’m actually hoping that a friend of mine – who knows far more than me about this sort of thing – will write a longer, smarter guest post about this sometime.

]]> By: Udayan http://scrawledinwax.com/2008/01/30/online-identities-where-fake-is-the-real/#comment-730 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:59:56 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=196#comment-730 This is an excellent post! I think it is a valid point: we get to experiment with creation in online worlds which can be a really useful exercise of imagination. Only issue is that people should not then wish to be what they create so much so that they feel unhappy with who they really are.

Although… to some people, their avatars may be their real personality. In which case that represents a fundamental shift in attitude.

]]> By: What Truly Lies Behind the Avatar’s Face? « Around the Grid with Harper http://scrawledinwax.com/2008/01/30/online-identities-where-fake-is-the-real/#comment-729 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:09:52 +0000 http://scrawledinwax.com/?p=196#comment-729 [...] Avatars, Lifestyles, Personal, Personality, Real Life, Second Life Nav writes in Scrawled in Wax about a question that frequently exercises sociologists and psychologists studying us in Second [...]

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