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The number of active online users is increasing worldwide, with over half the global population now using the internet.
The World Wide Web (WWW) has been available to the public for 25 years, becoming an integral part of daily life.
The Philippines has a high number of active internet users.

Real life is the day-to-day reality that we experience outside the digital realm.
It involves interactions with others in person.
It's a physical representation of reality.

Simulation aims to imitate reality as closely as possible.
Examples include virtual tours of historical landmarks (e.g., Encarta).
360-degree views offered by platforms like Facebook enable users to explore places as if physically present.

A blending of real life and unreal.
Augments our physical world with digital elements.
Augmented reality permits simultaneous interaction with tangible and digital realms.
Examples include Pokemon Go and Snapchat filters.

Virtual reality is a completely detached type of abstraction; one can explore simulated worlds.
VR technologies enhance this ability enabling virtual exploration through avatar characters created by individuals; often through the use of devices like Oculus Rift.

Hyperreality describes the mind-set, more so than anything else, in which there is difficulty in differentiating the real from the unreal.
It's an evolved form of reality—a utopia of the minds where people become their best versions, while being isolated from real life challenges.
It is seen frequently in postmodern societies that rely heavily on technology.

The concept of self in the digital age differs from how the self presents itself in the real world.
Individuals, in the digital age, present different views of themselves on various platforms.
With the digital age, people craft various identities that differ on various platforms like Facebook and Twitter, to present a personalized yet diverse self-image to different groups.

Participating online, coupled with the creation of digital avatars, is comparable to performing in front of an audience.
Factors such as the performer’s awareness of an audience, expectations from them, influence the performance.
On social media, people construct and showcase aspects of their digital selves by engaging in carefully crafted online activities, including choosing what to share and upload.

Back Stage: Relaxed space away from the observing audience.
It is when individuals disconnect from social media.
Off Stage: When people or users meet someone who they only know online, the interaction is separate from the performative aspects.

Refers to activities in which the self performs for an audience.
Individuals utilize performances to express themselves and their current situation in the digital space.

Primarily refers to the background or environment during interactions.
The setting can range from highly public environments like Facebook to highly private environments like Twitter.
Actors need to alter their performance based on the given setting.

Appearance on social media is directly related to the effort to portray the different aspects of one’s self, through statuses and display images including selfies
How a person presents him/herself on social media reflects how they want to be seen.

Manner refers to how an actor conveys their messages to the audience.
People tend to exhibit habits and actions on social media that reflect the desired impressions on others; these habits need to conform to the specific social media setting.

Represents a social script followed by users in social media.
Individuals choose from ready-made performance frameworks for various situations.
Front often involves predictable, and pre-selected reactions such as thumbs-up emoticons.

Individuals interacting online can remain anonymous.
Anonymity is commonly seen on dedicated online question & answer platforms like Ask.fm to enable users to express their thoughts and ideas without risk of being personally identified.

In online communication, anonymity is when someone conceals their identity for temporary interaction.
Users sometimes hide their identities while engaging online either through temporary disconnections, or using false usernames.

Pseudonymity means individuals share their opinions and ideas; while maintaining a false sense of identity to protect themselves from other users.
It combines anonymity and the desire to maintain identity online (often for safety reasons).
Examples include historical figures who used assumed names to avoid problems.

Online disinhibition effect refers to the reduction or removal of social restrictions when a person is online.
It can lead to both positive and negative outcomes.
Benign disinhibition is the relatively positive aspect of the online effect which facilitates self-disclosure and emotional growth.
Toxic disinhibition is the negative aspect of an online experience, where people are impulsive and/or rude, due to reduced accountability and restraints in the digital world.