if u are anon online, u dont need to worry abt women, HR ppl at work, or yr mother looking at yr neurotic & perverse posts. once you facedox you lose the comfort of anonymity and somehow become something less than you were... to become a "real person". that is symbolic castration
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I think it's mostly an extension of chan culture
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So is it a mixture of shielding identity as form of saying what they want without impunity and possible repercussions, and a kind of Deleuzean posturing that 'oh look, we have shed our faces'?
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One possible reason is that some of us find ourselves in the shadow of self. If life is truly a game then under the shadow of anonymity we might choose to play from multiple alternate shades of personage. There's of course many more (and more common) reasons than this.
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Are you looking only for one all encompassing reason or can there be multiple reasons?
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