The Internet and The Mask

Strange bugs in yesterday's posting.  Must have been the Friday 13 thing.  My friend Sean called to tell me that the links I put up did not direct the reader to his site but to someone else with the same name.  What!?  How could that happen?  Poor fellow.  Both of them.  They could not be less alike.  One seems a perfectly normal sort, a wedding photographer or something.  Gave the other the heebeejeebees.  I'm sure you were asking yourself, "What sort of fellow is this anonymous Cafe Selavy?  I thought his friend's were dangerous?"

Of course my friend retaliated.  That is what friend's do.

Sean's "professional" name is Sean Q6.  He is present all over the web.  Here is a link to his blog.  But there are others with the name Q6 on the web.  I was going to link you to this, and this, but enough is enough.  Still, it points up the oddness of internet identity.  It is why the internet was invented--so that people could be someone else.  Or what they consider themselves to be.  It brings into question the entire idea of "self."  That is the only reason to have an internet.  Everything else is just dross.

It is silly and dangerous to try to be yourself.  Ask the lady behind the mask.