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* '''Invisibility''': The users may find it easier to act out when he cannot physically see or hear the people he is interacting with.
* '''Asynchronicity''': Users may find it easier to post something personal or difficult to say when they don't have to face the consequences of their posting immediately - they can leave it there, and do not have to return to it.
* '''Solipsistic [[introjection]]''': When interacting with others online, a user might experience the other people "as a voice within [his] head" <ref name=Suler />. The others seem to become a part of his internal world. The user feels as though he is talking to himself, which makes him feel safe to unleash thoughts and feelings that he normally considers private.
* '''Dissociative imagination''': The online world in which the user interacts seems compartmentalized, like a "make-believe dimension, separate and apart from the demands and responsibilities of the real world" <ref name=Suler />. As a result, she does not follow the rules of behavior she normally does.
* '''Minimization of authority''': Online, the trappings of authority are invisible, and the limitations of appearances do not affect a user's interactions with others. It is easier for users to act as equals when, as in an online setting, they seem to be equals.
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