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Anonymous or Not: Where do you stand on Internet Authenticity?
Where do you stand?
Last week's topic was essentially centred on social media and online communities. And the week before that, we talked extensively about hackers, the freedom of information and anonymity - together this made for a good 101 course on the different philosophies that have emerged on the use of personal data on the net.
So today, we'll compare the two positions, thanks to this really cool infographic made by Lindsey Savino for dailyinfographic.com.
On the one hand we have Facebook‘s Mark Zuckerberg, who championed the cause for Internet authenticity, encouraging users to have single online identities, for reasons of accountability. On the opposite we have, 4chan, a collaboration of anonymous users, has churned out both creative Internet trends and headline grabbing pranks. 4chan’s founder Christopher “Moot” Poole believes this anonymity is the key to online authenticity.
Today’s infographic shows these divergent philosophies of Internet culture and, most interestingly, what the average Internet user thinks about the privacy of their information online. What type of user are you? Do you prefer anonymity or transparency?