Is Anonymity Deception?

The Internet is easily painted in broad, dark strokes.  A place of concealment, deception and fraud.  It is a place that is out to get you and your family, especially your children.

Does that mean then that I am a threat?

I post on this blog anonymously.  I like the anonymity; paradoxically it means that I can be myself.

Does that mean that I am being deceitful?

Or is it only deception when you set out to deceive, when you have something to hide?

I don’t think I’m deceitful; I just like to have my life separated into its different compartments, into my different roles or hats.  I am open and honest but I like the comfort of being nameless, of just being taken for my words rather than who I am to others.

What do you think of anonymous bloggers?  Are you one?