Can we chat !!!

Admit or not but if you are reading this blog you probably are among one of those(us) who have evolved a virtual self of oneself in this Cyber Space. Dont we find it easy to communiticate in this virtual world than the real..... why is that we prefer messenger over meeting up personally ..... given that time and efforts are not always the constraints ... why is it more exciting to have chat with fake ids ... ones in which you also tend to manipulate your personal information about sex, age, race than generally speaking up with a stranger ..... how many strangers have to met for the first time and befriended without knowing much and is that figure comparable to your chat mates about whose real existence you are not even sure of!!!
So, how does it matter and does it make any difference... am I not still the same ??? .... this is probably the question that first irks in our minds .... well the answer is... to start with it really doesnt make much of a difference but slowly one tends to to potray oneself as what he thinks he should have been rather than what he actually is ... responses from a person on the cyberspace may be much contrasting to the real life.
Consider this situation in which a staid housewife and mother of three small children developed a cyberself that was into violent virtual sex and various forms of cyber pornography. She developed this cyberself over several months and she began to spend more and more time in cyberspace projecting as this licentious cyberself. Suddenly, last summer, her normal personality transitioned into this cyberspace personality, that she called "Linda". In front of her children and with her husband looking on in disbelief, she stripped naked and performed an obscene erotic dance. She needed to be institutionalized (from a web article).
Though not all reach such extremities but everyone(atleast I do) of us to some extent would agree that the behavioral patterns which we share on the web and in reality are different to some extent. People are most pretentious here and when a like situation is encountered, the virtual responses again would be quiet different than the real. Its more of what you would like to than what you actually are.
The anonymity of ones identity is the most potent tool that works both for and against you. "For" because it is potentially liberating and beneficial at times as people put aside their complexions as there is not much of worrying about ones identity and "Against" because you are not being true to yourself at times by potraying ideas which can be done only under the veil of anonymity.
Though this can lead to serious psychological problems it often leads from simple things like a lack of understanding concerning the proper way to develop, nurture and manage diverse cyberselves. Its more of self-understanding and self-acceptance.

Ever wondered having so many virtual friends and virtual messenger ids would have such implications about yourself !!!..... can we chat now ;) ??