Internet Anonymity Quotes

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

I have no history with 4chan.

Everyone talks about how the anonymity of the Internet allows people to behave badly, but I think it's the other way around, that the anonymity removes the 'self' from the people we're talking to online. Other people lose their humanity in our eyes. The system is set up to dehumanize.

Some kid gets his first iPhone, signs up to Twitter, and then tweets, 'Nikki Sixx sucks.' And I'm supposed to take that personally.

I honestly believe that people sit behind their computers and just get really brave.

It's insane, the Internet. Totally craziness. Like a little cancer. People can just do whatever they want, say whatever they want, be totally anonymous. It's totally out of control.

Sometimes people are so unbelievably vitriolic on the Internet because I think that everybody wants to be heard, and the easiest way to be the loudest is to be the hater. But you don't know who's behind the keyboard, and you don't really know if their complaint is about the topic at hand or if they're just bitter about something else.

If you've spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.

My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

I know that this is the internet, and we're all anonymous and all that, but really. It doesn't hurt to try to be nice.

Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me.

This whole blogging stuff has been bugging me for years. Talk about no filter on things. People feel free to do and say whatever they want with no vetting, with no editing, with nothing.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

At the end of the day, the Internet is full of mean people. Who are these people in their everyday life? I pray for them.

You can have an Internet presence, but it doesn't mean anyone has any idea who you are or what you look like. Which is great.

You have to assume once you go online, anything you put there can be made public. Yet while you're online, you feel like it's a private, sacred space. But you're really broadcasting to the world.

I can't, for example, Google myself, because I am very sensitive.

It’s…it’s easy to have some little bitty website and use a fake name and sit there and…you know…talk bad about Jews all day and enjoy yourselves…uh, you know…getting your kicks ’cause you live in, you know…a…a one room apartment and your mad at life or whatever and wanna blame us…you know.

The Internet foments outrageous behavior in part because it is a 'gray area' for social interactions.

I still am very afraid to Google myself. There are some embarrassing roaming photos that I wish weren't on Google. But I intend to not Google myself.

I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat.

Salander leaned back against the pillow and followed the conversation with a smile. She wondered why she, who had such difficulty talking about herself with people of flesh and blood, could blithely reveal her most intimate secrets to a bunch of completely unknown freaks on the Internet.