"Are people their real self online , their true unfiltered self ? Ans: not necessarily. Being anonymous is an inhibition lifter. Things that would normally get filtered out by the otherwise rational parts of your brain just go ahead and spill out. To me, that sounds a lot like alcohol. Not in the sense that being anonymous specifically messes with your inhibitions chemically, but in that it removes them by way of removing the social pressure that alcohol otherwise tends to soften up ..continued