Anonymity on the Internet

Anonymity on the Internet is very important for many people. It is rather unusual to give your real name, and if you do, then only to people you trust or know from real life. Social networks are a special case here. Most users give their real names in order to be found more quickly and easily by acquaintances and friends. Invented names, nicknames or other designations are rarely encountered here.

However, this naturally creates a problem for users: no one can really track and determine who finds their own person and invades their privacy. A future employer or companies such as insurance companies could use this data to screen and evaluate one's own person in advance.

To circumvent this, one's own anonymity can be protected with symbols and abbreviations that have little to do with one's own personality. Another alternative is to use avatars, which allow for much more similarity and reference to one's own person.

Variations

For the user, avatars should have as many variants as possible so that he or she can define an avatar that individually matches his or her own person. Different skin colors, hair, beards and accessories make it possible to create an individual image of oneself that is as similar as possible. So it is even possible that acquaintances and friends, who are not sure whether they have found the right person, can use the similarity of the avatar as a basis.

Avatar als Alias

An alias is a pseudonym for your own name. An avatar is an alias to your own person in the form of a picture. The goal of an avatar is to represent one's own person and character as realistically as possible without showing one's own real person. This is achieved through different variants and different clothing, which can be easily and uncomplicatedly adapted. Thus, the user can move in the social network, always with the protection that his true identity is not revealed.