Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators by Julian Dibbell

In the Essay Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators the avatars of different people are explained.  The thing that interested me the most is that a few people in this essay have avatars that are nothing like them.  The one part that got my attention was the ones that had avatars that weren't even the same gender as they were.  The people they interacted didn't even know that they weren't the gender that their avatar was.  To me it seems deceiving I understand they aren't asking and that an avatar is supposed to be a way to be able to be what they want to be but I think that their needs to be some type of truth in it. The people that they are interacting with have right to know that they aren't who they say they are.  I'm not saying that in a game like these that they should put out every detail of their life, no that's how people get stalkers, but I feel like being a different gender, whether its to sell something or to have more authority with out question, is like lying to someone.