There are many reasons to be anonymous. Different people have different reasons for that some may want to be anonymous due to their work demands such as those who are into cyber investigation, journalism, and some might want to be anonymous because of their concern of their privacy etc. There are times when we want to protest on something good but doing that openly might create some problems so we want to be anonymous. As we say in physical life, people who do bad things like a criminal after doing a crime want to go underground the same way in virtual life or in the internet. Cyber-criminals and hackers wanted to be anonymous. Being anonymous is just a choice. It does not always need a reason. It’s just a state to be in virtual life. It’s a virtual lifestyle and while some want to enjoy the same and others might be forced to be. Similar to the physical world we do have a need or desire to stay anonymous on the internet. It may just be that we are concerned about our privacy, we want to make a statement but won’t do it with our true identity, we need to report something to someone without getting directly involved, communicate sensitive information, or simply want to be a stranger to strangers (anonymous forums, chat rooms etc.). Apart from the mentioned reason, we may simply want to bypass a restriction put up by the authority (e.g., college Wi-Fi) to visit certain portions of the web. The motivation behind it can be anything, but a requirement is surely there. People might get confused of being anonymous that means just hiding the identity. It can also about hiding what you are doing and what you want to be. A simple example can help us to understand this. Let’s say we wanted to buy something and we visited an e-commerce site to buy it. We liked the product but due to some reasons we did not buy that. But as we were surfing normally, we may found advertisement of the same product all over the internet. It’s just a marketing policy for the e-commerce giants by tracking a user’s cookies to understand his/her likes and dislikes and post the advertisement according to that. Some might like this and some might not. It’s not just about somebody is monitoring on what are you doing in the internet but also about flooding adds about similar things to lure us to buy. To avoid such scenarios also people might prefer to browse anonymous. For a quick revision, there are private browsing options available in most of the browsers and there are specific anonymous browsers available that do this work for us.
