Anonymity: Bane Or Boon

Geethan finishes composing a 1-minute theme inspired by a famous Tamil movie from 1987.

Then, Geethan edits his video and uploads it to his channel on YouTube.

Geethan joined a music directors' community platform, a website where they can form a team, join and work on songs, and background music (bgms) needed for short films, and movies. They receive credit and pay, with a small amount going to the platform.

Geethan joined the platform a month ago and has worked on two teams.

He noticed that some girls and even some boys in the team have received messages from anonymous identity users, special users on the platform who, when paying extra, can hide their identity. All such profiles will have the same name in the community, and if reported, they will use the contact details shared in the user's profile to get to them.

Geethan, along with his team, decides they are going to stop these mentally devastating actions once and for all on the platform by asking all the creators they know to raise the red hand symbol in their profile, indicating that the user is facing some issues.

Now, all such profiles will be contacted by admins whose identities will also remain hidden on the platform.

Geethan's teammates inform the admins when contacted, and now it is Geethan's turn.

Geethan starts talking about the issue and suddenly uses the word "sir" while responding.

The admin does not reply for some time, and Geethan then understands what he has done.

Geethan apologizes immediately and calls them using the word "admin" next.

The admin replies it is okay, sir, and they thank him for his response.

The platform brings a special update to manage all the profiles, analyze the messages sent by all users, and provide an option to request contact details from users to form a team, rather than simply displaying it on the profile.

"So anonymity is needed in today's world to protect our identities, but anonymity must not be used to mentally affect other persons when you know their details.

Value the person's privacy and value the trust they have in you when they share their details with you."