Who are you?

I found an interesting article in The Guardian a week ago. New York university lecturer Clay Shirky was discussing the online social sphere. I thought it actually had echoes of what I was trying to say in a previous post regarding comment sections and how often annonimity promotes negative and sometimes vulger discourse. Shirky goes onto to discuss the potential emmergence of social norms such as the use of true identity, again this is something I discussed earlier and I think but I suppose, As the article highlights, "people were saying those nasty things to one another on the pub!"