Why Be Anonymous Online?

Anonymity has always been a common method to get ideas across from person to person without giving good or bad credit to the creator. However, the question is, what is the greatest benefit that one can receive from this? First, there would be more comfort in sharing one's ideas without the vast amount of personal reprimands that one can get. With some comfort more ideas can be shared across many communities and there would be less of an impulse to listen to the comments because the commentators won't be able to personally target the creator. Alongside this, the ability to say what you want, wherever you want has always been very appealing. The "shy" people of the internet can freely express themselves without having to share their identities because it may affect their personal lives in ways that wouldn't benefit them at all. For example, an employee would be able to express their work life in both a negative and positive light, but if they were to talk about more of the negative aspects then they would want to remain anonymous so they wouldn't be reprimanded by their employer. Unfortunately, this ideal amount of comfort to post and say whatever comes to a person's mind has been taken advantage of by spreading many insults and not having to take responsibility for it. On the other hand, it is a minority of the public that takes advantage of this comfort and, for this reason. anonymity online should be allowed to remain accessible.