A List Apart: Articles: Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters
I have an article up over at “A List Apart,” one of the most respected websites for Web developers. If you’re someone interested in the phenomenon of online behavior and communities, this is a good article to check out.
Many popular websites such as Wikipedia offer little differentiation between the experience and tools available to registered users and to anonymous visitors. Many active users of such websites may, therefore, be virtually unknown to their hosts. As most party hosts knows, it’s usually the people who just “show up” and that you don’t know who can create the biggest headaches.
Dr. John Grohol is the CEO and founder of Psych Central. He is an author, researcher and expert in mental health online, and has been writing about online behavior, mental health and psychology issues -- as well as the intersection of technology and human behavior -- since 1992. Dr. Grohol sits on the editorial board of the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking and is a founding board member and treasurer of the Society for Participatory Medicine.Like this author?
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Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 4 Apr 2006
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Grohol, J. (2006). Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters. Psych Central. Retrieved on February 14, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2006/04/04/anonymity-and-online-community-identity-matters/
