1. We can find several factors why a person would adopt another persona online. Online personas are sometimes the place of comfort where people hide from the offline world. Two of the main reasons for this are. Firstly, pressures from family and friends. Could be in any aspect of life, school, work etc..." The online disinhibition effect is applicable here describe, whereby the true or inner-self is presented online, but not in face-to-face conversation". Secondly being able to fit in society, usually they have not confidence enough. So they change their looks offline to overcome those fears. Bullingham L., and Vasconcelos A.C. "'The Presentation of Self in the Online World': Goffman and the Study of Online Identities." Journal of Information Science 39.1 (2013): 101-112. Print. …show more content…
Online identities in videogames are called avatars. It´s been discovered that avatar customizatition have an influence on how people present themselves. We live in a society where prejudices are very present , that's why people while creating a profile or an avatar tend to features they are not entirely happy with. Al so we can find cases like "Identity tourism occurs when a user of an online environment such as blogging or SL utilizes the potential for anonymity to adopt a different gender or race" . This could only happened if online identities influence the way we see ourselves also it would influence how others see us. Bullingham L., and Vasconcelos A.C. "'The Presentation of Self in the Online World': Goffman and the Study of Online Identities." Journal of Information Science 39.1 (2013): 101-112.