Anonymity

What people share with others can be extremely important, especially on the internet. Anonymity provides the user the ability to interact with others, or simply browse the internet without giving any personally identifiable information.

Anonymity can be accepted into various situation; witnessing a crime, charity benefactors, or even when feeling threatened and you try to alleviate the threat towards them. Most importantly and the situation that is back by law is voting in free elections. All of these scenarios are well known as having anonymity, but not all are witnessed everyday. One that is very common that anyone can notice on a regular basis would be the anonymousness of 53% of people that comment on newspaper stories being vulgar, hatful or racist.

Pros:

 * People can openly discuss personal problems that would be too embarrassing to share with your name attached.
 * There is more equality to anonymous conversations
 * Freely experiment with role playing

Cons:

 * Protecting criminals, or dealing with illegal acts
 * Creating Illegal contracts
 * When an act my be legal but hurtful and degrading to others, a lot of times called cyberbullying
 * Related to spam and junk emails