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ONLINE PERSONA VS. REAL LIFE PERSON
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AznChipmunk
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CloseAsalieri's recent questioning of my posting style gave me this idea.
Also, take into account that this is your self-opinion and not necessarily reflective of the truth.
Interestingly enough, I feel I am pretty different in real life. (This is a discussion I have had with YDS many times.)
Online:
I like to be annoying, I guess. I argue and complain a lot about things I don't actually mean. I love to argue and provoke other people on the internet. (I think just the idea of someone getting mad over the internet is hilarious.) However, I do get a lot of stuff done (like working on the now-dead magazine) when people rely on me. I tend to do this like say "k" a lot (I don't do that anymore), switch between grammar and lack of grammar, and push my enter key a lot when chatting over AIM/IRC.
So, I guess I am pretty reliable, but I like to spam, flame, and troll a lot.
Real Life:
I kinda have two sides in reality. (I guess this might be called mild bipolar disorder, but I don't know.) One side is my silent emo child self. I don't talk at all and I tend to just sit curled up listening to my iPod. Sometimes I put up my hood and my hair will go over my eyes.
The other side is like... one of those whitewashed Asian kids. (A banana! Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.) I am usually loud and story-telling when I am in this mood, and I inadvertently draw attention to myself a lot. I also tend to sing randomly a lot when I'm like this.
I am generally a pretty reliable person, but I am a humongous procrastinator. I like to entertain people (which I am pretty good at) and I'm not assertive at all. I am really indifferent or apathetic about most things too, so I'm not a big decision maker. This leads to me being really impressionable--meaning I pretty much help people do whatever they need to me, although I really love helping people with their problems anyways. (In some sense this has translated to my internet self when I help people by beta-testing their games. I give enormous reports complete with suggested solutions to problem and screenshot of each and every single problem. (Including grammar problems.))
I am a pretty self-contradictory person in some senses. (For example, I wear Che Guevara and Mao Zedong shirts, but I am anti-communist. I hate rice, but I like sushi.) Also, if I don't get enough sleep I say the weirdest shit. Which I still sometimes say anyway.
So, how about you?
Also, take into account that this is your self-opinion and not necessarily reflective of the truth.
Interestingly enough, I feel I am pretty different in real life. (This is a discussion I have had with YDS many times.)
Online:
I like to be annoying, I guess. I argue and complain a lot about things I don't actually mean. I love to argue and provoke other people on the internet. (I think just the idea of someone getting mad over the internet is hilarious.) However, I do get a lot of stuff done (like working on the now-dead magazine) when people rely on me. I tend to do this like say "k" a lot (I don't do that anymore), switch between grammar and lack of grammar, and push my enter key a lot when chatting over AIM/IRC.
So, I guess I am pretty reliable, but I like to spam, flame, and troll a lot.
Real Life:
I kinda have two sides in reality. (I guess this might be called mild bipolar disorder, but I don't know.) One side is my silent emo child self. I don't talk at all and I tend to just sit curled up listening to my iPod. Sometimes I put up my hood and my hair will go over my eyes.
The other side is like... one of those whitewashed Asian kids. (A banana! Yellow on the outside, white on the inside.) I am usually loud and story-telling when I am in this mood, and I inadvertently draw attention to myself a lot. I also tend to sing randomly a lot when I'm like this.
I am generally a pretty reliable person, but I am a humongous procrastinator. I like to entertain people (which I am pretty good at) and I'm not assertive at all. I am really indifferent or apathetic about most things too, so I'm not a big decision maker. This leads to me being really impressionable--meaning I pretty much help people do whatever they need to me, although I really love helping people with their problems anyways. (In some sense this has translated to my internet self when I help people by beta-testing their games. I give enormous reports complete with suggested solutions to problem and screenshot of each and every single problem. (Including grammar problems.))
I am a pretty self-contradictory person in some senses. (For example, I wear Che Guevara and Mao Zedong shirts, but I am anti-communist. I hate rice, but I like sushi.) Also, if I don't get enough sleep I say the weirdest shit. Which I still sometimes say anyway.
So, how about you?
Asalieri
200
I am pretty much the same ol' guy on and offline.
I don't get angry, I just bust out the logic and the arguments to make a case, and I debate debate debate! (ok, if someone's attacking me or my family with a knife, SURE I get angry!)
What'cha see is what'cha get. Problem is, things like sarcasm and emotion don't translate terribly well on text.
I don't get angry, I just bust out the logic and the arguments to make a case, and I debate debate debate! (ok, if someone's attacking me or my family with a knife, SURE I get angry!)
What'cha see is what'cha get. Problem is, things like sarcasm and emotion don't translate terribly well on text.
AznChipmunk
4613
author=Asalieri link=topic=2326.msg40272#msg40272 date=1225152527
What'cha see is what'cha get. Problem is, things like sarcasm and emotion don't translate terribly well on text.
Haha yeah, sarcasm has problems. Generally if I am being sarcastic on the internet I'll stick an eyeroll in: >_>.
Sarcasm has had some weird effect on internet conversations.
However, I feel emotion can be translated onto text. This is in the writer's skill, though.
EDIT: I am in a topic-starting mood due to lack of YDS. Who usually starts a ton of topics.
Asalieri
200
I just kinda type, and let the reader draw his or her own conclusion what it is I am allegedly feeling based on what they read. I tend to mix joke and serious a lot, though.
Missing her, are you? Didn't she say she'd return?
Missing her, are you? Didn't she say she'd return?
AznChipmunk
4613
author=Asalieri link=topic=2326.msg40278#msg40278 date=1225152914
Missing her, are you? Didn't she say she'd return?
Not missing her. Just lack of new topics. EDIT: ENOUGH POST TAGGING.
Real life is a million times easier. People are less apt to spout off nonsense as they're held accountable by lack of anonymity.
Moreso than me having a different persona online than IRL, it's more that I have several different modes IRL (with family, with different groups of friends, with my girlfriend, in professional or scholastic settings). My online persona happens to sync up perfectly identical with how I am around my friends who are also geeks: loud, brash, jokesterish, attention-dominating, over-confident, argument prone, authoritative, but helpful and polite whenever possible. Ultimately my gregarious exterior belies tremendous insecurity.
However, in social situations outside of my established group of friends I am incredibly shy and extraordinarily withdrawn because I suffer from MAJOR social anxiety disorder.
However, in social situations outside of my established group of friends I am incredibly shy and extraordinarily withdrawn because I suffer from MAJOR social anxiety disorder.
demondestiny
889
Online i tend to be a very happy, fun and also annoying person. I am sure in the year and few months i've been on this forum i have pissed someone off.
In real life i tend to be a very serious, mature person especially when i'm at work.
In real life i tend to be a very serious, mature person especially when i'm at work.
Shinan
4314
I'm shyer and quieter in real life but that's about the only real difference. I'm less likely to try to join a conversation I'm not really invested in in real life while on IRC I can say random things at random intervals.
The things I do say in real life and here are very similar though. I don't think I've ever said anything on the internet I couldn't say to someone's face.
Of course my persona changes more depending on if I know the people around or not. Even online when joining a new community I do lurk around a lot at first making discreet posts and getting a feel for a place before starting talking. Which is similar to what I do in new social situations in real life. It always takes a while for me to feel at home.
(Also notice how I hardly ever start topics or discussions. That's also part of my persona of never leading, just following. And not making myself too visible)
The things I do say in real life and here are very similar though. I don't think I've ever said anything on the internet I couldn't say to someone's face.
Of course my persona changes more depending on if I know the people around or not. Even online when joining a new community I do lurk around a lot at first making discreet posts and getting a feel for a place before starting talking. Which is similar to what I do in new social situations in real life. It always takes a while for me to feel at home.
(Also notice how I hardly ever start topics or discussions. That's also part of my persona of never leading, just following. And not making myself too visible)
Online:
I like to make smart-ass remarks that only I find funny.
Real Life:
I like to make smart-ass remarks that only I find funny.
I act the same online as I do in real life. Christ, even my username is my real name.
I like to make smart-ass remarks that only I find funny.
Real Life:
I like to make smart-ass remarks that only I find funny.
I act the same online as I do in real life. Christ, even my username is my real name.
suzuricho
283
I'm the same clueless, emotionally unstable person online as I am in real life. *shrug*
But at this point, I guess the only difference is that here I feel a lot more open to talk about things. I tend to only talk about things in real life that I know about so I can look like I'm reasonably intellegent AND so I know what's going on. I don't pay a lot of attention to the outside world very much. Hence, I'm quiet most of the time. Or talking at breakneck speed about something I actually know and understand, most of the time no one else gets it, and that's my problem, I guess...
Online I just want to ramble. I want to say exactly what's on my mind without having anyone give me those disgusting glares I've always recieved. I've been looked down by most of the people I've met in real life because they don't understand that I feel like a 12 year old trapped in a body ten years older!
But I'm still a tomboy with a creeping inner girly side hidden within me either way.
But at this point, I guess the only difference is that here I feel a lot more open to talk about things. I tend to only talk about things in real life that I know about so I can look like I'm reasonably intellegent AND so I know what's going on. I don't pay a lot of attention to the outside world very much. Hence, I'm quiet most of the time. Or talking at breakneck speed about something I actually know and understand, most of the time no one else gets it, and that's my problem, I guess...
Online I just want to ramble. I want to say exactly what's on my mind without having anyone give me those disgusting glares I've always recieved. I've been looked down by most of the people I've met in real life because they don't understand that I feel like a 12 year old trapped in a body ten years older!
But I'm still a tomboy with a creeping inner girly side hidden within me either way.
Euphorian
80
Online persona: .... I don't know, you people would be a better judge of that than I would, you tell me. I do tend to be a lot more sarcastic online though, usually.
IRL: I tend to... not say anything at all. I adopt the "don't speak unless spoken to" approach, and that doesn't happen very often.
IRL: I tend to... not say anything at all. I adopt the "don't speak unless spoken to" approach, and that doesn't happen very often.
Well I don't put on an act if that's what you mean, I'd like to think I'm the same online and offline, But I don't know if thats always true, online, people see you how you want them to, in real life, you can't go back and edit what you've said, or check over it before you post something y'know? That's why the RMN podcasts quite surprised me.
It's strange though, as I've been getting more confident in real life, I'm getting less confident online.
EDIT: Reading Shinans post, we're quite similar.
It's strange though, as I've been getting more confident in real life, I'm getting less confident online.
EDIT: Reading Shinans post, we're quite similar.
author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2326.msg40556#msg40556 date=1225229525
Before I post my opinion in this topic, I'm going to have to ask how you guys view me.
Online, I think rather highly of you for some reason, We haven't even spoken directly. You just seem like a nice guy, you get shit done, you're a leader, I don't know if that's because you're a mod or not.
Hey, thanks! And no, I'm not asking this to stroke my ego or anything, its just that I tend to be pretty horrible in terms of self reflection, and I'd trust the words of you guys who see me from the outside than my own subjective opinion on how I appear to others.
author=Feldschlacht IV link=topic=2326.msg40560#msg40560 date=1225229944
Hey, thanks! And no, I'm not asking this to stroke my ego or anything, its just that I tend to be pretty horrible in terms of self reflection, and I'd trust the words of you guys who see me from the outside than my own subjective opinion on how I appear to others.
Oh yeah I know xD I wasn't trying to ass kiss either, I was simply being honest. I think a hell of a lot of people feel exactly the same way as you. It's nice to be told "hey, you're an okay guy" every now and then.
suzuricho
283
Feld, or Mog, if I may call you that...
I don't know you very well yet. From what I see you are understanding and intellegent. You don't give people shit, you just say it how it is. And that's not ass-kissin', it's just what I see.
I don't know you very well yet. From what I see you are understanding and intellegent. You don't give people shit, you just say it how it is. And that's not ass-kissin', it's just what I see.
