Authenticity personality internet users in the process of internet socialization

This paper analyzes the different theoretical approaches to the study of psychological schools phenomenon authenticity personality. The notions of "authenticity", "online socialization", "virtual". Stages of online socialization, types of virtual personality. Determined which of the steps, a virtual personality congruent with the ability to selfconstruction. The authors pointed out that the development of authentic identity of Internet users in the process of online socialization is due to the transition from a passive consumer of information in the active position that reveals his self and to preserve the integrity of its uniqueness. The problem of authenticity, as a factor in maintaining the integrity of the biopsychosocial in its uniqueness, is becoming increasingly important and relevant in connection with the development of technology and the large increase in the flow of information through the media, television and the Internet. The crisis of authenticity as a psychological phenomenon related to the transformation of all spheres of human activity and, mainly, his ideas about themselves and other people and attitudes towards them.