Anonymity, nickname and Internet real name...

Candice 2022-03-19 09:01:02

I have known Facebook and the real-name community on campus for a long time, and have been keeping away from it. Just a few hours ago, I was still sad at the "Please fill in your real name..." on the school registration page. After gritting my teeth, I only changed my last name and filled it in, and asked me to upload a portrait photo of myself. I said yes, wait, I rummaged around and finally found the photo of Steve jobs; What city, company, basically scribbled... I took a deep breath while waiting for the final pass. Before I could finish my breath, I stepped into this real community.

Just entered, there is no feeling, the column on the left is similar to the ones in the spaces. The middle part is different: the school found 11,810 friends for me in the local area! They all have noses and faces! What's your name, where is it now, and what it looks like. Open one, oh my god, it's clear what this person is!

The Internet in that era was basically anonymous, and the way to contact you through the Internet was E-mail.

I once remembered the scene when I just used the Internet. Before I went online, I heard a meow. After the squeaking was over, the pages of the website could be displayed on your computer screen. At that time, there was very little contact with the Internet, and the way to contact me through the Internet was an E-mail address (byterain started to impersonate me on the Internet at that time), most of the time it was anonymous. The website does not need to register at all (you care what my name is, I just look at it) The Internet in that era was basically anonymous, and the way to contact you through the Internet was E-mail. No one can really find me, and I will not leave a name. The Internet basically depends on watching, there is no participation and interaction, even in the already lively forums at the time, I rarely mix (maybe related to my personality at the time). The way people understand the Internet should also be a tool at hand. It is convenient to use, and it doesn't matter if it doesn't. At that time, the Internet, TV, and newspapers began to be called the three major media. There are also some professionals who regard the Internet as an information machine, but an extension of the use of computers. People are keeping a distance from the Internet, like when they are reading a newspaper, they are afraid that the ink will stain their hands. They gently lift the Internet and then gently put them down. In people's consciousness, it seems that this thing has a lot of usefulness, but it can't do anything. It's not clear what value it has. It seems to be a gadget.

Nickname-our earliest self-image on the Internet (self-image)

Later, I went to the chat room and tried to give myself a name, but I forgot it now. Then the chat rooms are less slow, but more and more chats, ICQ, OICQ, QQ have all been used. But the Internet still depends on the cat, and the click still depends on the mouse. There have been many friends in reality on the Internet. Everyone has a screen name (nickname) that is quite different from the reality. It was originally in Chinese, but an English name; it was originally a two-character name, but it was an idiom; it was originally a male name, but it’s changed. The name of a woman; what was originally unknown, gradually became famous. Friends who have watched "The Matrix" either didn't understand it, or were shocked by the world described in it, and they doubted whether the world was true or not. In the movie, the real and virtual worlds are completely different. People can build their ideal self-image in Matrix-face, clothing, hairstyle, attire... (now does QQ also have this function!), And it's totally different from what it looks like in reality! The nickname Dongdong on the Internet for the first time allowed people who saw it to conceive an illusion in the cerebral cortex. This is the self-image that the name-named person hopes to convey to others. Since then, the boundary between reality and virtual has blurred. I don’t know if the name on the Internet better represents you, or you better represent him (her) on the Internet. Anyway, he (she) frequently appears on the Internet, using your language, telling your things, expressing your happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy. Then, he (she) more and more like you. While uploading photos, give him (her) the same hobbies as you, let him (she) tell people where you have been, who you have met, what music you like, what movies you like to watch... Happy. Others seem to be less and less like them, experiencing all kinds of evil things in a world that is severely divorced from reality...The meaning is still endless. Whether you admit it or not, gather them who represent you together, and that composite body is the truest you. There is love and evil, sentiment and cruelty, a living person lives on the Internet, but he (she) is scattered, and in different environments, there are different he (she) representing you, just like we are in reality. , In different situations, showing a different self. People are no longer so reserved about the Internet, and their spirits are here to live. I don't want to say that we are already living on the Internet, but at this moment we seem to only feel breathing... Who can tell me what the Internet is, that Matrix?

One day, you "meeted" with him (her)

When, one day, when you think that he (she) is not enough to represent you, the situation arises... People start to put themselves directly on the Internet! The name no longer has any concealment, and he (she) who often represents you on the Internet has disappeared! And it is you who replaced him (her)! In the early days, there was a cartoon depicting a dog who was surfing the Internet, and the comment said "In the world of the Internet, you can't tell whether the person on the other end is a person or a dog." Today, we can basically determine what that guy is. It took us a long time to move ourselves to the Internet, and finally one day, we finally wrote our own primary key (ID) in the real world. Well, let me ask a question. Since we can feel a living person from the Internet (it doesn’t seem to have much to do with that person being online at this time), and the person on the Internet is ourselves, then the Internet and reality What is different in the world? Is this world really confused? .......

Maybe one day, as in "The Cell" (The Cell), the Internet directly stimulates our brain nerves and uses our body as the terminal of the Internet, becoming a part of it.

I decided to watch "The Matrix" again...I think I have to re-examine the positioning of the website...I want to remember the feeling of breathing now... .

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The Matrix quotes

  • [Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black cat walk by them just like the first one]

    Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.

    [Everyone freezes right in their tracks]

    Trinity: What did you just say?

    Neo: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu.

    Trinity: What did you see?

    Cypher: What happened?

    Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.

    Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?

    Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.

    Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!

    Neo: What is it?

    Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.

  • [on the war that devastated the Real World]

    Morpheus: We don't know who struck first, us or them. But we do know it was us that scorched the sky. At the time, they were dependent on solar power. It was believed they would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.