Do you show your face on the internet? Being a public person on the internet has a lot of downsides, but there's one major upside - it's an honesty lifehack. When you're anonymous on the internet, you'll begin to develop an online personality that's different (sometimes starkly) from IRL you, you embrace more cognitive dissonance. The least complicated way to be a public online personality is to just be honest and transparent about almost everything. For me, this translates into being more honest and genuine in my offline life.