Internet and Identity Sabrina Rubin Erdely wrote the article “Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played With Fire," which was published in Rolling Stones. Kristen Ostrenga was from Coral Springs, Florida. She created the name Kiki Kannibal for herself and for her Myspace, Youtube, and StickCam followers. Kiki changed and began wearing heavy makeup, posting scandalous pictures, and showing a different side of herself. She quickly became an internet sensation, but not how she thought. Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at New York University. He wrote Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights. Yoshino covered that he was a gay Asian American man. An individuals ability to recreate themselves online …show more content…
Also, it is very hard to regulate a person’s actions when they are anonymous. Erdely states, “The police told the Ostrengas they could do nothing given the harassers' anonymity” (Erdely). When people post things anonymously through the internet it’s very hard to find their location and to see who posted it. Every word that someone says has an affect on another person whether it is negative or positive. This is a basic moral concept that most people understand but choose to disregard. Watching what you post online whether it is pictures, videos, or a status’ is very important in today’s world. There are crazy people out there that can hack into your accounts, pretend to be someone there not, or stalk you. Watching what you post online and keeping all your accounts private is a big factor when using social media, but many people neglect to do this. Sometimes it is not our fault for what we post online, the wrong person gets a hold of the information and uses it against us. Many individuals do not know how to act online, they tend to act different then they normally would in person. When KiKi started using Myspace she realized that many people did not like the way she looked, what she was doing, and had very negative things to say about her and her family. She didn’t care at first. To take the backlash of what people were saying about her she changed her appearance once again. Erdely states “Kiki fought back by embracing her outsider status, chopping her long hair and dyeing it pink. She remade herself into a ‘scene queen,’…”