virtual identity versus social identity: we become mad?
Continued growth of the Internet grows ever more people to join more accurately the network. The number of hours of connections continues to grow, the result of the attractiveness of the Internet. Governments, associations, people call the world's population to reach the Internet. Also, joining the Internet one creates more or less consciously at least a virtual identity. Is this going to risk it?
1) Virtual Identity: a structure more or less conscious
1.1) An automatic construction
soon as we joined the Internet, let alone with the advent of Web 2.0, one creates a virtual identity. This may be done by simply using a nickname, but it is up to the creation of an avatar, an "I" is believed true to itself (but which can never be), an 'I' idealized ... or an "I" downgraded according to the psychology of each. Anyway this "I" will never be the virtual "I" real, at most a (pseudo) mirror of reality. Thus, with the Internet, we need to manage at least two identities: a social identity and virtual identity. The advantage of the virtual identity is that one can easily transform, idealizing the "fantasmréaliser. However, this simplicity of construction of identity is not without risk "derealization" (loss of sense of reality) or even "schizophrénisation" (a term deliberately aggressive but accurate reflection of the risks involved) ... or worse! social disconnection in favor of his virtual identity.
1.2) Identity Virtual banks and drifts
easy to restrict a virtual identity: it ends where the virtual access methods are closed.
Even more than our social identity disappearing gradually after our death (speed its disappearance being inversely proportional to the reputation we have been able to make him), our virtual identity remains immortal traces of its existence will always remain ... unless a large sweep of the Internet takes place one day ... This immortality, some Internet users are multiplying identities to be 10 times more immortal again! But the main drift: sinking into the virtual, lose their social identity in favor of this virtual identity, much simpler to manage, to give up. With its virtual identity, one has the right to life and death without this having any consequences for us, human. But excessive force in play, you dark. One dark world before this seemingly utopian but actually virtual! One dark before the easy management of its identity. One dark before these risk-taking without apparent consequences. I say "apparent" because the consequences may well exist in our real life. First with the risk of "schizophrénisation" as I said before, but also the human, financial, ... Indeed, our (our) identity (ies) virtual (s) is attached our real identity. Take the example of online casinos. You certainly create a virtual identity, but it is automatically and directly attached to your real life. This amounts to asking the question: do we dematerialization with Internet disconnects Does not reality?
2) Social identity, I hate you!
2.1) I will no longer be "me"!
After living the ideal of identity (ies) virtual (s) he must face the facts: every time it is the same, we must return to social identity. Ah! Métro, boulot, dodo! Ah! Records, meetings, promotions! Ah! Accidents, injury, injustice! Ah! Why can not I keep this "virtual me"? A "me" timeless, a "I" aspatial, a new "me" that I build my own way and demolished. So why even have this corporate identity? You can live with its virtual identity now: make a living, manage their accounts, repair his telephone line, order food, ... But we must not lose sight that this virtual identity is constructed through our social identity and usually its "idealization." A virtual identity can not be built without social identity although one is far from reflecting on the other we have seen. However, can not abandon our social identity somewhat after our virtual identity constructed? Probably not, because it would demolish alongside your social identity.
2.2) The "no-life" or virtual identity
deadly practice, observe the "no-life", those individuals who have (almost) no social life. Their virtual identity can not be reduced more than a simple avatar with very few interests, little energy, little virtual friends ... Brief an avatar that has only one destiny: to survive. And that's where all the gravity of the situation. By defining a virtual identity can not die, but for no-life "is their only identity, and if it disappears they are nothing, they are therefore virtually dead ... socially and therefore they have abandoned their social identity in favor of their virtual identity. It seems therefore essential to focus on what these no-life to acquire a new social identity, rebuilding slowly to finally break away from the grip of this virtual identity. A "no-life" is then always trapped, it can not backtrack ... unless we help!
3) As a common man to common immortal?
3.1) Who are we? And we
. You, me, them ... Where are we? How do we couplons virtual identity and social identity? Presumably, the current cocktail is quite simple to achieve: the social (mandatory) which is mixed with more or less virtual. But will we one day at a turning point, that is to say that our virtual identity is more important than our social identity? Or will we disappear completely over our social identity or "probably" will we become the sociovirtuelle?
3.2) Towards a virtual social identity?
Whither we tend? I do not think that will have virtual control over the real. Instead, both are complementary, just the right mix. So I think more than our social and virtual identities will have to intersect and enrich each other. Yes virtual identity also presents its utility: to dream, relax, relax, ... About our social identity: a must! Our brain needs physical human relationships, interaction with real elements, ...
Virtual Identity and social identity intersect each other and enrich each other. Do not have a virtual identity is inconsequential, even if it enhances social identity. But do not have a social identity is very dangerous: it disconnects us from reality, and even worse we did get scared! The whole question now is how far can we develop a virtual identity? What are and what are the consequences?
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