January 29, 2014
Journal #1
My Alter Ego
After reading the article Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators, some thing I found interesting, was that each one of their "alter egos" were completely opposite of who they were in real life. For example, Rebecca Glasure is a female Asian housewife, and her avatar is a big, black male. I found this interesting when she said that people online took her much more serious when she was a male character over a female. She liked being online more then real life, because she felt more accepted in the internet than she did in every day life. Up until she had her child.
After reading this article, the movie Avatar came to my mind. The way the main characters life resembles Jason Rowe in the article was very shocking. Both boys were in a wheelchair and were physical disabled. Their alter ego characters were both very strong, muscular physical person. They both felt power when in their alter ego. Jason even goes and says, "The internet eliminates how you look in real life, so you get to know a person by their mind and personality." The way people use an alter ego to make themselves a better person is a way to really show people that you should get to know them before you judge their appearance. Many people in this article said that they felt that people online excepted them more when they weren't themselves.
