my online idebtity

How many online identities do you have? What are they?
I have 5 on line identities.

One is Facebook and renren(people people),it's extension of my real life, I input my my favorite pictures and video links to enhance my personalities and to make new friends who have same interests. It's also used to keep in touch with friends far away and haven't seen for a long time.

One is blog for visual studies, I plays a role of a student which is more official and serious.

One is qq and MSN, to communicate with parents, as a child. On the other hand, I also joined in some internet communities about language study and test, gender and homosexual issues and designers and so on. Different community gives me different identities and they are not intersect.

One is douban, I talk to strangers in similar interests or who can teach me.  Because we don't know one another so taht there's always kinds of performance when in this site. And people can rebuild their background and they can record what they have read, what movie they saw and share differnt comments. Many comments are really profational and worth to read. In the site they also can build different organization freely, including travelling, reading, sports, movie, food, volenteering and so on.

And the last one is an artist community.

I'm in the site as an illustrator and share my work with other illustrators. Some of them know others in real life, some don't. It's also connected to part-time jobs or full time job.

In what ways are they different to your "in person" identities?

"in person" identity is full of mix that sometimes hard to separate them clearly that leads to misunderstanding.  Identities on line is more clear than in real life.

What are some benefits of expressing one's identity online?

I can chose to express some of my ideas on site and people can just judge me only through these words and my preferance that I'm easier to build my "ideal" personalities. I can think twice when leaving message on net  and I'm easier to foresee peoples response which make relationships more easier.

What are some risks?

for identies on Douban, there might too many fake information that people don't rally trust each other and just simply killing time on it. Or people sometimes leave perfunctory, even rude comments which annoying others and caused fighting. Too many worthless information wasted my time and if joined too many organizations, I will also worry about which activity held by them I would join in.

few sentence about http://www.mouchette.org/.

She claims that she is a 13years old girl,"she" wrote some secrete,talked about parents and used flowers, erotic sounds, flies and meats to express herself. All information is fake and the author made a fictional identity. If people don't know about it and believed the information, the person who is made in the thin air will become real in someone's mind. It's reminds me about how we remember dead peoples. They are not exist anymore but we remember what they did and their characters, they are alive in our own mind. The fictional girl is also vivid in people's mind who believed it.Isn't it a kind of existence? I wonder...

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSHziqJWYcM
1) How many viewers are estimated to have watched the youtube video?
There are over2,613,359 people had watched "Bus Uncle" on YouTube (by 6th October 2010,with over 2300 comments under the video, according to the Bus Uncle with Bilingual subtitle on Youtube website). According to Wikipedias’ description, the clip is YouTube's most viewed video in May 2006, receiving 1.7 million hits in the first 3 weeks of that month. And not including the people who were watched it together. And there also a large amount of people who watched it on other website like 56.com, v.youku.com, video.yahoo.hk, dingtv.com and so on.
Thus, it’s impossible to calculate the exact number of how many people had seen it, but no doubt that there must be A LOT.

2) How would you rate the video?
The Bus Uncle is a Cantonese YouTube viral video clip of a quarrel between two men aboard a bus in Hong Kong on 27 April 2006. While the older man, who came to be nicknamed the Bus Uncle, scolded the man seated behind him, a nearby passenger used his camera phone to record the entire incident. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bus_Uncle)

The Bus Uncle is shot with phone camera which almost everyone has. Talking about the quality of the video, the quality of picture is extremely low, the camera angles has not changed in the whole 6 minutes, it used nature light that audience are hard to distinguish the two main subjects and their conversation is also hard to heir except for the subtitles. In a word, it has no aesthetically elements at all.
Or, we can say it's a new form of movie which is more realistic because people will fell more relax in front lens and shows the most nature part of them. The first phone movie in the world made by Nokia N90, a documentary named New Love Meeting（93 minutes）, directed by Serge Herz.( http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2006-06-15/15569212996s.shtml). Though the movie was criticized that technical is limited, the camera is waving sometime and most importantly, the lack of detail, color and microphone reduced the value of the movie, the director claimed that they won’t handle with it, for it catches the most realistic screen of the interviewees.

There's even some competitions and festivals about phone taken movies. For example, Forum des images, the movie center in Paris, had held a pocket film exhibition that all the movies are shot with camera phone. Till June 2010, they already held six times.( http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/english/), even the famous Italian movie star Isabella Rossellini had joined in pocket Film Festival in 2010!
Also some competition held by cell phone companies which helped to bring up the pocket film.
See http://blog.lib.usc.edu.tw/blogs/40700/%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80%E5%B1%86%E7%98%8B%E6%BD%AE%E5%BD%B1%E5%B1%95%EF%BC%9A%E5%B0%8F%E5%BD%B1%E9%A0%98phone%E6%BD%AE%EF%BC%8C%E6%89%8B%E6%A9%9F%E5%B0%8E%E6%BC%94%E5%89%B5%E4%BD%9C%E8%B1%90
And bellow is the Japaness first pocket film festival in 2007.
http://www.tncomu.tn.edu.tw/blog/808/read.php?1601
This kind of movie is more like recording every issues in our daily lives and costless and user-friendly. Anyone who has a camera phone have a chance to be a great director! This is also an example of what we can do with the participatory culture and bottom-up culture.
That is, movie with camera phone also considered as a new form of art and raised a different point of aesthetics if the technique can be used in an artistic way.

On the other hand, it surly raised interesting socio-cultural issues. The video attracted viewers with its rhetorical outbursts and copious use of profanity by the older man, and became a cultural sensation in Hong Kong, inspiring vigorous debate and discussion on lifestyle, etiquette, civic awareness and media ethics within the city, eventually attracting the attention of the media around the world.
Many people may had come across this kind of issues and they echoed with the same　experience. The Bus Uncle soon become a popular topic and they focus on the follow-ups.
When I google “The Bus Uncle”, there’s 4,530,000 web contained the word and many of them are comments in blogs or research about HongKonger’s life and so on.
People also get to know the name of the subjects in the movie and the video maker so that their life in the real world were also affected. The uncle was interviewed by Youtube and other newspapers and was bitten once in his workplace.( http://www.joeygalaxy.com/showthread.php?2890-Bus-Uncle&p=68758&viewfull=1)
The problem goes to how we deal with information on the internet? Internet made the world into a village
that everyone is under watch that no one can do bad things without taking responsibility. Or, people tend to have no privacy at all, and others are become voyeuristic?

3)Do you think it deserved the attention that it received from the internet community?
I don’t think it does deserve so much attention. Internet become a window that we opened our minds as well as blind and confused. Except of whom concerning about the social problem or people's cahracter seriously, many people in the internet are just folowing the crowd and you can imagine how I hard to find a point rally make sence...