Digital Society Forum 3 By Caio Ryan Rocha

Digital anonymity refers to the condition of being unidentified while posting online. It protects privacy but has negative consequences. Anonymity allows people to present false information on social media, such as fake likes and followers. It also enables haters to spread aggression without accountability. Additionally, anonymity lets people create false images and lives. Overall, while data protection is important, anonymity on social media leads to fake users and deception. I would like to begin by defining digital anonymity. According to FIA Business School, it is a condition that blocks, hinders, or prevents the author of a post from being identified. Anonymity protects users' privacy, however, I am against digital anonymity for various reasons. First of all, anonymity of social media interaction allows people to display whatever they want on the media's window even if it does not represent the truth. That permeated even how likes are given and also how people grow their followers. A true celebration of household. For example, I would like to mention this week's news on the click farms in Vietnam. Imagine a room filled with 200 cell phones where each employee gives 10,000 clicks a day after being hired to pretend they are true likes. That is something anonymity allows since most of those accounts giving likes are fake. Additionally, people add fake photos to their profile. According to CNN, photographer Jake Latham, in its 134 pages, Beggar's Honey includes a collection of abstract photographs, some seductive or discompetitive, depicting videos that appeared in Latham's TikTok feed. He included them in the book to represent the type of content he saw being driven by click farms. However, Latham said that it was made to manipulate social networks. The second reason I am against digital anonymity is because it can be the perfect scenario for haters. This one would have the freedom to be aggressive to someone else without having to own every type of word. Considering no one knows their true identity, it is easy to spread violence and hatred on social networks. The real person would not be accountable for his behavior. Finally, anonymity allows people to send an image of what they are not and a life they do not have. Landgraf says, digital media provide worlds for anonymous social interaction in which one can play a role as close to or as far away from one's real self as one chooses. Because of anonymity, people can, for example, play rich without being caught in a lie. The Bible says in Proverbs 12, 2, that lying lips are not humiliated to the Lord, but those who act faithfully are his ally. In conclusion, though I am all for data protection, I am against anonymity of social media interaction due to the fact that it sets the stage for false users, purges of likes and followers, as well as lies about one's true identity.