First of all, we need to clearly understand what identity in the digital world is, it is a virtual image in the online digital space that has the user’s personal identity and information, which sounds like a masked party, you can choose what you want to look like in the “party“, and you can also add such labels that you want to show. In the digital age, as long as you use the Internet, basically everyone will have their own unique “mask” in this “party”.
If you think that the virtual digital world is just a simple social tool, then you are confused by its surface, the real digital world behind is built on a huge database of user information, for example, the user shopping on the network, then after authentication, big data will record your shopping preferences into the database of the digital world, to provide you with more in line with your preferences for the goods advertised, also in the The data world for you to label so as to record this data, or when you like a post on X or Instagram, big data will also push more similar posts to you or will you like the blogger many times to push to your home page, these are user data into the digital world in order to build a more in line with the preferences of the digital identity of the mechanism that exists.
Identity construction in the digital world
In addition to these widely recognised parts of the digital world, the most dominant way to build identities in the digital world is “gaming”, and before that, there was already VR (Virtual Reality), which combines human-computer interaction, which was the beginning of the process of letting people experience virtual identities. The game began to 3D mode to design, design high degree of freedom to allow players to freely create roles to design the role of the character’s appearance, race and gender, etc., they are digitally constructed in the world as the creator of a virtual character mapping their own, the character’s speech and demeanour are symbolic of the player’s own behaviour, and once again to complete the construction of the identity in the digital world.
But building identities in the digital world is not a completely perfect and safe way to socialise, it still has many drawbacks, no matter in which form the construction of virtual identities need the authentication support of the user’s real identity information, and this is where the problem lies, no one can completely ensure that it will not be leaked, criminals who illegally get personal information are likely to do a lot of harm to the rights of individual citizens or privacy, these things the law may not be able to prevent the deterioration of the thing.
The human world is made up of human beings, and it is human beings who build virtual identities in the digital world, so for the sake of the safety of the virtual network and to safeguard their own legitimate rights and interests, people should also spontaneously abide by the laws that exist in the digital world.
Yes, the digital world is a very large macro-concept, it consists of a lot of information, I think the push mechanism in the era of big data is a double-edged sword, it can make us know the information we need faster, but at the same time it may lead to the leakage of our private information, so I think that the construction of the identity mechanism in the digital world needs to be more careful for the users.
I really like your point of view. There are pros and cons to building identities in the digital world. Digital identities can quickly show all the information about a person if you can verify their real identity, but at the same time, as technology advances, it’s hard to keep our information secure.