One's online reputation is similar to the conventional concept of reputation, but in cyberspace. Reputation is the opinion (more technically a social evaluation of the public toward a Person, a group of people, or an Organization. Cyberspace &mdash from the Greek el Κυβερνήτης (el kybernētēs steersman governor pilot or rudder &mdash is the global domain of electro-magnetics accessed In cyberspace, reputations can be easily made due to the high transfer of information. But they can also be easily broken, due to the lingering, semi-permanent nature of the world wide web, especially the general existence of sockpuppets (easily created pseudonyms). The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. A sockpuppet is an Online identity used for purposes of deception within an Internet community An online reputation is often achieved while in a pseudonymous state. Pseudonymity is a word derived from Pseudonym, meaning 'false name' and describes a state of disguised identity resulting from the use of a pseudonym (also called nym A digital reputation can be useful in situations where credibility must be established, but exposure of one's real life identity is undesirable or possibly hazardous. This is common in Online Forum. An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site
It should be noted that online reputations usually have a lessened impact on the lives of their holders than a conventional reputation; a person's online reputation rarely extends beyond the forum they post in and as such is somewhat insulated from their life in the "real" world. Whilst a person with a ruined reputation in reality may face a range of problems as a result, destruction of an online reputation generally does not have the same effects- it is possible to discard one's current online identity and either start up a new online identity and rebuild one's reputation, or simply leave the relevant online community permanently.
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- on-line and off-line
- Online identity
- Online Identity Management
- Reputation
- Cipherspace
- Digital signature
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An online identity is a online Social identity that Internet users establish in Online communities and Websites. Online identity management (OIM also known as online image management is a set of methods for generating a distinguished presence of a person on the Internet Reputation is the opinion (more technically a social evaluation of the public toward a Person, a group of people, or an Organization. Cipherspace or cypherspace is the Encrypted (and often pseudonymous or fully anonymous) equivalent to Cyberspace. A digital signature or digital signature scheme is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate the security properties of a handwritten SignatureDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic