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When we look at today's generation of twenty somethings compared to preceding generations and the following younger generation, we make a lot of comparisons. Does our generation have a place? Or a title? A lot of people would argue that we, the web generation, have a place online and within social media and technology. But is that really a place and how does it effect our identity and how we present ourselves to others.
This comic is a commentary on just that, how we choose to present ourselves to others and how social media and online interaction with people facilitates that or cripples it. With online anonymity we have the choice of what we let other people know about us, and we control how we are perceived through images etc. In cases of things like online chat or instant messaging, anonymity can be increased because it includes conversation with people that may not even know each other, therefore the ability to control how we are perceived increases. You can completely change who you are, or at the least fib a little about your identity and appearance. This is sometimes good, or it can become a danger in some cases (to catch a predator). Online chat and role-playing websites are created to encourage the creation of a whole other persona. On the internet, you can be whoever you want. Just take a look at the last frame of the comic. ;)
3 comments:
Very cool comic! that stuff totally happens too, which is why its so funny XD. It kinda makes you wonder how desperate people can get on the internet, you know? Like to lie and call yourself a young woman when you're actually an older man, just to get the attention from someone who doesn't even match your sexual preference.
That is very true, also funny. Although to be fair, since we hide behind so many lies on the internet maybe we are the generation with many names rather than with none.
This is interesting as commentary on how one may use the Internet to anonymously partake in the needs and pleasures that one is ashamed to announce or acknowledge in real life.
For example, Sweet_Peas may not necessarily be (and is not identified in the comic as) homosexual, or even transgender, but he seems to enjoy impersonating a woman online. It being online, there's significantly less difficulty in masking one's sexual identity.
This type of behavior is markedly more acceptable online than it is in person, as it's easier for others to dismiss it when there's nothing corporeal to it.
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