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Anonymity can be a great tool if placed in the right hands. Online anonymity usage is a double edge sword anonymity can be used to provide great information and ideas to the world. Users would not get ridiculed for what their profile says or what pictures they have posted. Anonymity would point the focus on the topic of discussion instead of the person speaking.

On the other hand, anonymity gives users a wall to hide behind. Users become more outspoken when there are no consequences for their actions. Trolls have taken over the Internet and their sole purpose is to verbally attack users with offensive and vulgar comments. Cyberbullies use anonymity to go after their targets some trolls are even programed to search social media post for keywords and to automatically respond to the comments/replies made by other users.

With the use of Digital Forensics some low level anonymous users could be tracked down by retracing the IP addresses, but tracking could get more difficult with the use of VPN. I am against anonymity online due to the amount of harm outweighs the good.

In the bible anonymity is used throughout not every person within the bible has a name some people are just known for their actions. Human nature is to only use anonymity in regards to bad deeds because nobody likes to take credit for them. In Matthews the bible states that God wants us to practice anonymity when doing good deeds.

The good deeds should not be done to gain credit for ourselves but rather to give credit to God. Anonymity is even practiced in church during your tithes and offerings each member walks up to the altar and places a monetary offering into the tray.

Could you imagine how awkward it would be to have somebody sitting there counting how much each individual gave during each service?

It should not matter if you gave one or one-hundred dollars all that matters is that you give something.

An Urge To Be Anonymous. (2010, August 31). Retrieved April 11, 2017, from

https://odb.org/2009/11/01/an-urge-to-be-anonymous/

The New York Times Company. (n.d.). Retrieved April 11, 2017, from

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/08/19/the-war-against-online-trolls/free-speech-does-not-protect-cyberharassment

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