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How Do You Know Who Is Blogging

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How do you know who is blogging?

 

Karen Dybis

May 10, 2012

https://www.digitalethics.org/essays/ethics-book-pirating

 

"Behind the Virtual Curtain of Writing"

First Impression:

Anonymity these days is popular especially when it comes to writing: I mean, sometimes, I can't believe the things that one reads online and taught to be created by someone that they visualized like for instance, a civilized English woman, is actually someone like a 30-year-old man who is a bit of a pedophile or something like that. Honestly though, the truth hurts when it comes to finding out who's behind the mask of online anonymity, especially when it comes to writing these days. 

 

Quote: 

"It reflects the thoughts, views, opinions and interests of the writer. If you want to write fiction, just write a book...or create a blog where you showcase your fictional work or a fictional character, but let your readers know that this is the case. I feel that it is just plain wrong to mislead people in that way."

 

Reflection Proper:

Everyone these days when it comes to getting information online is either gullible or not. I mean, when it comes to writing, people can be easily convinced by pretty much everything as long as it looks professional. Of course, emphasis on the word "writing", authors these days could be anyone living anywhere and writing just about anything. But when it comes to the term "professional" in anyone's case, including mine, how those people who really do professional work represent themselves online always matters, but there are those who misrepresent it truthfully, as in they are like top-notch Ocean's-Eleven-type con artists just finding popularity easily via their work of they believe to be "journalism.' To put it simply, this links to my previous argument: anyone could be easily deceived nowadays thanks to the never-ending information flow that still could be truth or lies. But honestly though, there are some situations out there so ridiculous that everyone who reads it considers it instantly to be a story full of cheese or something equally crazy, but they should become standard examples in school especially to the subject of journalism, like according to the essay: "a story about a 40-year-old graduate student who was able to trick international media such as Fox News, CNN, and The Washington Post to name a few, and the thousands of loyal readers and fans of "A Gay Girl in Damascus" into believing he was a young. lesbian Syrian woman named Anima Arraf". Being a young writer myself, and using psuedonyms to protect my identity,  I get that, but there comes a time where things can go too far, so it's best to really look and think about what you are doing when it comes to "fake identities" because if things go too far -- well, hope you are prepared for the consequences that follows along with it depending on your situation. I mean, I agree that it is really easy to be someone else online, but let's face facts like the possibility to track down such people [anonymous trolls, for instance] in an instant, and honestly though, when it comes to writing, I have this advice to share to fellow writers: your works reflects everything you are: your thoughts, views, opinions, and interests. Let your readers know what are you doing truly and also don't mislead them to such thoughts that can destroy your life or worse.

5 Things Learned From Article: 

 

  1. I learned about professionals and how they represent themselves matter to them.

  2. I learned about the reality of online writers that they could be anyone living anywhere or writing about pretty much anything.

  3. I learned about people being somewhat gullible to any article these days especially in the online world.

  4. I learned that it's easy to fool people online especially in the form of using pseudonyms and fake identities.

  5. I learned about the importance of writing for it represents the thoughts, views, opinions and interests of the writer and writers should not mislead their readers in any way possible.

 

5 Integrative Questions:

 

  1. Do you have a fake name or identity you use online? If so, what do you use it for?

  2. What's your opinion on online writers who sometimes mislead their readers in many ways like fooling their readers on who their author really is via use of a pseudonym?

  3. Why do you think people are always taking advantage of the fact it's so easy to fool anyone online even if there are many counter-measures being made nowadays?

  4. What suggestions can you give to writers or online bloggers in terms of their works?

  5. If you were a writer, how would you do your works?

 

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