Paper short abstract:

Today a world without virtual connectivity is deemed impossible and the interaction is shaped in different ways such as forums, chats, games, and socializing sites. The question is to what extent the everyday life cultural profiles of the virtual space consumer is similar to the virtual identities.

Paper long abstract:

Staying online is maybe one of the few cornerstone goals of our everyday contemporary lifestyle. Not being connected to the internet is maybe the most severe case of social exclusion at least amongst the youngsters who live by and through connectivity. On the other hand, not being online equals not existing socially. Bearing this in mind, the paper aims at analysing briefly how people interact and enact different types of identities while being online during games, chats and forums. The paper is based mainly on two points of view. The first is shaped by the experiences of the live interaction with unknown people during online encounters while the second is built on the interviews with a group of people in their early twenties about their online activities. The conclusion of the analysis leads, surprisingly or not, to the conclusion that in a vast majority of cases there is a huge discrepancy between the people's identity in real life circumstances and the one they display during internet interactions.