Identity as multiplicity." Using online communication, "people are able to build a self by cycling through many selves." (Turkle, 1995, 178) Users may have an online self and an off-line self, but these selves continue to communicate with each other and to build "identity as multiplicity."

Internet users have became cyborgs, in other words slaves, to the computer. Cyborgs are those who have crossed two boundaries, the one between virtual and humans and the one between humans and reality. We are sometimes ourselves and sometimes not. The existence of the cyborg is dependent on having multiple selves. Cyborg theory is an interesting combination of science fiction, literary theory, philosophy, and sociology.

An example is that an Internet User have multiple selves. This is not that user has multiple personality disorder, but that user has multiple selves that communicate with each other and form a "identity as multiplicity". The user self is only possible with the aid of computers, thus user may becoming a cyborg.

Language is a way to disguise identity in a chat. Users use japanese in a japanese channel. Users can also join many channels in Mirc, this will disguise identity. Other examples of users are those who create scene in Mirc channels and some who clone their own nickname by using Bots. Click here to read more