Here's a few brief articles and links about the disinhibition effect...i don't believe a large quantity of people create a completely false identity, more of an embellishment of true characteristics...this also leads to "over-sharing" or intentionally withholding information
our very own DocJohn wrote a brief article about this effect:
Online Disinhibition Effect | Encyclopedia of Psychology
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The online disinhibition effect.
While online, some people self-disclose or act out more frequently or intensely than they would in person. This article explores six factors that interact with each other in creating this online disinhibition effect: dissociative anonymity, invisibility, asynchronicity, solipsistic introjection, dissociative imagination, and minimization of authority. Personality variables also will influence the extent of this disinhibition. Rather than thinking of disinhibition as the revealing of an underlying "true self," we can conceptualize it as a shift to a constellation within self-structure, involving clusters of affect and cognition that differ from the in-person constellation.
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The online disinhibition effect. [Cyberpsychol Behav. 2004] - PubMed - NCBI
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the lack of instant feedback from other people’s body language causes all sorts of communication failures online. One of the most common causes of these failures is jokes. Without the accompanying body language, friendly jibes are easily misunderstood and interactions can quickly take a turn for the worse.
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The Online Disinhibition Effect ? PsyBlog
so, now that I have thrown your thread way off track...
ultimately, the world is shifting more and more towards virtual relationships...and to get back to your original point...if you are interested in a girl you meet through social media...my best advice would be to start as friends and go from there...just like in real life...coming on too strong can cause her to retreat...
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