If you guys have been in chatrooms, you will understand this. Chatrooms (especially MIRC) has this power of creating “a whole new world” for the chatters. It’s where we are known by our nicknames and nothing else. You can just randomly picked any name for people to call you and then get active in the main window where everyone can see you chat, and then you create a history as you get well known to more chatters. IRC is where you can see politics, friendships, crushes, broken hearts and even sexual encounters and even rivalry. It is indeed another world. Seriously. Another world.
Some chatters even have a new life once they enter the chatroom. They fake their identity, they become the characters they are not and they speak the language they never speak, while the rest just play it honest..just be who they are as in real world. The capability of making chatrooms connect people from their fingers straight to their hearts – lead to many other outcomes that you can only guess. But when you want to know it for real, you have to experience it yourself. Some cyber encounters are only meant to stay in cyberworld and some really get to happen and be part of their realities. It’s interesting to be involved in another world of possibilities. People might say they don’t believe in IRC stuff, but for me who spend my time daily in the chatrooms, it’s a humiliation to say that I don’t actually believe a single thing about it. Oh come on. Save me some face here. *Lols.
After sometime, you have to leave the chatroom because you get busy with something new. Whether it’s studies, family and career, or you just purposely force yourself to leave because of some bitter experiences. After a while, for some reason, you feel like going back to that virtual world. Whether you gonna find the old friends back or not. But since you are using your nickname, they will only recognize you if you use the old nickname. Aha…read the topic. This is when some of you would appreciate this cyberworld freedom of being whoever you want when they choose to come back with A New Identity. Yes, A New Identity. It’s like a computer with an erased memory. You come back as a brand new person, a new nick and some other characters to further hide you from being recognized. I mean, if you ask me Why would people need a new identity?
Like the reasons I stated above, they just want to start a clean slate. Not wanting to open up old book, but they still want to be part of that community they was once in. They still want to join their favourite channels. So, they come back with a new nick and introduce themselves like they are newbies. From there, a new history is creating in progress. No more old stories that come in the picture. What you have to do is just fake some details , and maybe pictures too and create your new persona. With the power of assumptions, you can successfully install you New Identity. Viola!
This thing happens. If you come across some people who take this approach to restart their virtual life in the chatrooms – what should you do? Should you force them to tell who they are so you don’t have to act noob just to welcome a new person or will you just let them play their game how they want? I come across new personalities who have had history in the channels they join, and they want to start new. Being unknown and make new friends. They come across old friends too but they pretend not knowing them. For some reasons they know best, they have to do this for protect their personal interest. Are they wrong for having A New Identity? The answer is, No. Cyberworld is a world of freedom. Your mind and your fingers are the conductor of You. You are what you type. So knowing that you don’t have that choice in real life, why would you waste the chance that can benefit you? Whether it's a secret that you want to keep, a person that you want to get rid of – You surely can resort to A New Virtual Identity. Or you might just want to challenge yourself, not wanting to rely on your past, so you decide to Get Famous again with your new persona. Hahahaha. Interesting!
Well…Look…if I do come across people who want to start clean…of course I wonder what their old identitiy. What if they were one of those goodfriends that I thought I lost? What a waste that we have to start all over again just because the person decides to use new identity. I mean, can we just continue where we left? In the other hand, I DO understand why people come back with a New Identity, and they are under no obligation to tell everyone about their old identity that might bring prejudice for people who already know them. They would face the risk of people bringing out the old story and never let them be peace with a their comeback. I UNDERSTAND. I PERFECTLY UNDERSTAND :)
Want to know why I understand your situation? Because Twofivesix[256] is also My New Identity :) One day I will open this story but for now, if you ask me again…Yes I understand. And I will let you keep your secret.
We just want a peaceful life…doing good things and make ourselves as well as other people happy. Our identity shouldn’t get in the way. So go have a new one if it suits you. Trust me I understand :)
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