Analysis Of Self Disclosure On Users Of Pseudonym Accounts Which Display Toxic Disinhibition On Twitter Social Media: A Literature Study

Abstract

In this era of globalization, social media has become part of the lifestyle. Twitter is a social media application that has a total of 436 million users in the world and 18.45 million in Indonesia. Twitter is free for its users as to how it wants to be identified. This causes many Twitter account owners to use accounts (pseudonyms or names used to hide their true identities). The use of pseudonym accounts aims to make the account owner more flexible in expressing anxiety, emotions felt, and other feelings that are difficult to express in real life. The use of this pseudonymous username relates to how one's self disclosure is to the public or other Twitter users. This study aims to determine the impact of pseudonymous accountsm on self disclosure and how toxic online disinhibition impacts other users on pseudonymous accounts. This study uses a library research approach. The results show that there is a relationship between self-disclosure and pseudonymous accounts. It was explained that if anonymity increases, then self-disclosure will decrease and vice versa. Self-disclosure that tends to be toxic will result in toxic online disinhibition.