Do we stay "the real us" in Cyberspace?

Everybody of us somehow once or more times was a part of a kind of a network society,a video game, a forum or just a site where we have to make our own profiles, choose nick names and avatars. In this way we decide how the others can see us, we chose the eyes they look through and create their general perception about us.

When we select our nick name in many cases we don't use our real name but names of our favourite person, movie personage , pet or just best-loved name we wish we had. Then we can include whatever information about us we want. For example, biography, date of birth, diaries, political and personal issues, photographs, address. We define who our friends and family are. And the questions here is " IS ALL THIS RIGHT?" You never know who have access to your personal data since we live in age where nothing is absolutely secure. There are hackers whose only purpose is to mislead people and use their records for illegal actions.

All of us always say "No, that will never happened to me" but we should take the precautions before it happens in real.( how to prevent from identity theft )


Another interesting fact is that we choose what we want to be according to the people who we will communicate with - our audience. For example, in MySpace we provide information about our music tastes, favourite singers and songs because we know that the others members of this site will search for people with the same music preference since Myspace emphasize on music preferences.On the other hand,  when we log on Facebook we supply the others with more personal information because we expect them to do the same in order to make friendships or to impress somebody. What is more, in pursuit of others' approval we even change personal information to fit in certain demands and requirements.
In other words, we change our "real us" in Cyberspaces sometimes purposely,sometimes unintentionally to present ourselves, to grab the others' attention or to deceive somebody. We put profile pictures, we link to sites and topics we are interested in, we publish songs and share our mood ( for example in Facebook ), we create a new version of ourselves, which embodies some of the characteristics we possess and the ones we dream to have.