Yours Anonymously

Anonimity always has the buzz. A sense of curiosity, a certain inquisiteness builds up in your heart when you see something anonymous. It started long before blogs.. Knowing the unknown has been the quest of mankind, a means of continuous exponential progress that we have seen. Maybe thats why they leave christmas presents without the name of the sender. Sometimes it might be a safeguard and sometimes its due to the fear of the unknown. I wonder what people would have felt to receive a letter (not an email.. I mean hand written letter) delivered to them without a sender's name or address, and the contents making them none the wiser! Its something that gives you goosebumps... something that triggers your imagination.. something that makes you gush even before you have realised it. Just like a "secret admirer" or a "from a friend" email. On the other hand, there are other things like automated birthday emails sent by some stupid website "on behalf of" your friends, which make them so near yet so far, and synonymous with anonymous. To them, you elicit the most explicit, worth a censor edit.

Now in the fast age, even confusions and surprises dont last long. "If i dont get it, I leave it" policy is whats prevalent. Ofcourse, as communication channels increase in number and frequency and decrease the distances, the opportunity to remain anonymous have increased too. Alas, in the electronic age, anonymity too, doesnt last long! With free easy to use trackers, even the simple blogger has now become a computer specialist. Increasingly I find people keeping track of IP addresses of accesses to their blogs, with reasons ranging from security to satisfying their basic instinct (aka ego). Some have a wry smile writ large in their faces when they see the per-day access go above a limit.

But still anonymous comments are quite abundant in the blog world. I think the main reason for that is the main concept behind blogging being anonymity. Your space. Your thots. Your feelings. Your words. Ofcourse, you cant get away with everything you say or do here. BBC reporting today, the arrest of a few bloggers! But the idea remains that its a free medium of diverse expression. Every blogger is, in a way, anonymous. You see their electronic self, maybe far fetched from their true self. Yet, you like some, you dislike some, you forget some, you treasure some. Thats the way it is. Thats the way it was meant to be! And anonymous comments sure do add to the fun. A bit of spice, a bit of ire, a bit of hate, a bit of spat, a bit of forgery, a bit of fallacy, a bit of mock... These bits are sure the tid bits of the blogworld.

Needless to say, I was totally overwhelmed by the "anonymous" comment to my previous post. I cant stop gushing with pride at having enticed an elusive soul to comment on something at long last. And before you need to say, that sure triggered this post ;)

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