A Study On Anonymity Of The Internet

McLuhan pointed out that the influence of every medium to the individual and society is caused by the new yardstick, our every extension may bring a new yardstick in daily life. Invention of painting and emergence of electronic media once made a key effect to the social structure, life style and mode of thinking, which resulted from the modality of media rather than the contents carried.Since the 1990s, with the development of science and technology, the human society has been into the times of information and internet. Having a computer and a length of reticle, you can enter the rich and varied cyberworld, where you may search information, browse photos, receive and dispatch Email, communicate on the QQ, even work, shop and see a doctor. Internet becomes the heaven pursued by the people to some extent, however, internet not only brings the convenience to the people, but also social problems, for example, searching engine and data dining violating the right of individual privacy, the crisis of confidence on e-business, network crime and internet violence extending to real life. On this lay, internet seemingly becomes the nightmare of pursuing happy life for the people.Anonymity once was regarded as a passport of cyberworld, meanwhile played a role of arch-criminal which aroused so many social problems. Why anonymity make the internet become a double face compiling with angel and devil? The article takes anonymity as the subject investigated, analyzes the passing reasons of anonymity from four facets of technology, economy, psychology and control, and then points out three shapes of passing anonymity, which are complete passing of anonymity, half passing of anonymity and partial passing of anonymity. Through the above analysis, the author considers that anonymity is only a phased character of network communication and the internet is a real space without anonymity and privacy in essence.