Christopher Hansard:[Internet Communication and Identity]

Millions of people use e-mail and the internet, but do they understand how it works…?

Lives rise and fall on a virtual tide, an invisible process, one powered by thought, imagination and huge resources, which will not last forever.

People I think often feel disassociated in and by Internet use.

They hide behind aliases and false names

and do not really enter into communication..

communities are created on the web,

but they can be virtual ghettos.

We need to understand how to communicate and imagine

that we are in a face to face conversation with the person

we are communicating with,

even if its an organization or impersonal construct.

The Internet is full of fear, and Google is just a machine, it does not know what is true or not, it processes and replicates.

But what happens when the algorithms behind the web hit critical mass?

Yes a mathematical identity, which an algorithm is ,will come to an end.. the constructs of the Web are influenced by all the emotional forces that are poured into it.

Every time we use the web we also get a wash of those emotional forces.

Every internet user leaves their emotional mark.

Identity gets mixed up and mutated if we buy into the emotionality that pervades the net.

Ask your self how do you change when you send e-mails, use chat rooms or MySpace or Facebook, Bebo or anything similar.

Think how you change? Why do you use the Internet?

How has it made you view yourself and the world?

The Internet is a virtual world,

still unexplored in its full impact on societies everywhere,

and the pollution that is on it, in the form of hatred, pornography and bigotry will seep out through users and through its very existence into the everyday world .

The internet can be a good thing but at the same thing we need to respect it

as if were part of the Planet Earth otherwise like the Earth now,

having global warming and other forms of eco system collapse,

so to will this happen to the Internet.

Create something positive and put it out on the Net,

send out compassion, communication and humanity.