Anonymity is two faced...

         When most people think about being anonymous online they tend to see the bad side of it and how it may affect Internet users in a negative fashion. Tolls now a days are the main focus of anonymity. We see them as those rude and unlikable people who always have to comment on what people do or say. Whether it be sexist comments or escalated opinions, its really all very similar. As others in my class said, it a a new basis of class where everyone is set at the same level playing field. No one person is able to stand above the rest because the Internet has provided most people a safer or easier alternative to getting their opinion out there and making their thought count. What many people don't see is that anonymity can also have its good side to where people are using anonymous accounts to protect themselves from more serious problems that may be occurring in their own lives. Some people use this type of "mask" online to put things out there that might not normally be accepted by everyone. For example, a good percentage of the people online today are sexist and get bothered easily when someone posts online. A way to combat this is, people can simply just remove their sex from the situation and remove bias from the resulting comments. This whole "troll problem" is really bigger than we can imagine and we need to look from outside the box to get better perspectives of what we are dealing with before we actually profile people without being sure of who they are and where they come from. Its all the same as life besides the screen and some people dont give the time to realize it.