The Internet--The Great Equalizer
The internet is the great equalizer, the remover of stereotypes, the destroyer of preconceptions. It allows for great diversities in friendships, companionships, and relationships in general that would otherwise be impossible due to traditional social and societal constraints. On the internet, there is no rank, no age, no face to make assumptions about, no body type, accents, or mannerisms to stereotype.
All you have to go by is the username, an avatar, perhaps a gender. All there is is the raw personality of the other person, with none of the traditional social limits or mores between you and them. In other words, you see them as they mentally view themselves, not as how you expect someone of that appearance to be.
There is a sense of laying it bare, a sense of “Here I am, in all my glory, all my folly, all my strengths and flaws. Love me, hate me, just don’t troll me.”
Jacob Adams
All you have to go by is the username, an avatar, perhaps a gender. All there is is the raw personality of the other person, with none of the traditional social limits or mores between you and them. In other words, you see them as they mentally view themselves, not as how you expect someone of that appearance to be.
There is a sense of laying it bare, a sense of “Here I am, in all my glory, all my folly, all my strengths and flaws. Love me, hate me, just don’t troll me.”
Jacob Adams