Identity..

While reading this weeks reading assignments, "Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators", "Facebook: Editing Myself", and "High Schools Secret Life" the reading that seem to pop out to me the most was the "Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators".What I found most interesting about the reading was that most people create an avatar to escape from life and how they are perceived by others. Many of the creators had different reasons to why they have created their avatars, but overall it came back to the main idea of their identity and how your avatar is related to you in a form of way. One of the creators Jason Rowe created his avatar based on his physical disabilities to not being able to do certain things. With his avatar he is able to escape from the real world as well as interact with people and everyone would be on "common ground" (Dibbell). Jason felt as though his avatar was able to make people get to know him by his mind and personality rather that his physical appearance. Another avatar creator by the name of Rebecca Glausure created her avatar because of not being treated fairly based on her gender so she made an avatar completely opposite from her.

My personal opinion to this reading is that it is true. Deep within everyone there is a feeling of wanting to be something that they cannot be in the real world or fleeing from a situation that is occurring and the only way for us to channel or emotion and actions is to create something that could be us so that we can be ourselves and brings out the true identity within us.