Online Identity Crisis And Its Ethical Suggestions On The Base Of Virtual Ego

Human beings are a combination of virtuality and reality.The virtuality of man is the outcome of long development and adjustment in human society.It is a very important way for man to annotate,improve,and self-model.The very truth of human virtuality has long been pursued by domestic and oversea philosophers and ideologists.At present,as the era of network comes unnoticeably,the real society has been changed almost everywhere.It also has great impact on the form of virtual ego,virtual practice as well as its identity.It is not needed,but required to explore the essence of online virtual ego and the attribution and effect of online identity crisis,to provide a method of solving the problem through the perspective of ethics.The form of online virtual ego is the process of self entering online virtual space and forming ‘me' inside online virtual space.Through this process,Internet is regarded as the carrier,while psychological need of real ego becomes the inner motivation,and routinization of online behaviors helps provide necessary environmental bases.Based on these preconditions,online virtual ego grabs the characteristics of idealization of personality,authenticity of inner feeling and heterogeneity of value judgment.However,like real society,virtual society also remains “nonego identity”.When it comes any dissimilation of self-identity or lack of other identity,online identity crisis occurs.The separation of virtual ego and the inner self,the refusal from virtual ego to the real one,and unbalance of these two helps build up online identity crisis.The defection and unbalance of online virtual ego turns out to be the essence of the problem.Nowadays,more and more people are suffering from online orders,online interrelationships and online activities due to the crisis.Personally,improving virtual ego by education,enhancing communication by guiding public opinion,forming group identification in an ethical as well as legislative way may help solve online identity crisis comprehensively and systematically.