Online Persona vs. Real You

Yeah, I noticed you don't post much.

Don't worry, we won't bite!

Unless you like that stuff, I mean...

I'm a lot the same. Except I don't flirt with guys as blatantly.

That seems to be a reoccurring theme.

I don't really flirt IRL, due to the general lack there of gays at my school.

Exactly the same. Even the flagrant masochism.

@Spain: I wish I wasn't shy. But, everyone's got their issues, and mine kinda get in the way of social interaction.

edited 20th May '11 5:13:35 PM by DrunkGirlfriend

DG: Sucks. :/

I know the feeling, though. I don't really have any friends in school because I was so silent there my first year. Kinda blew it for me.

Just like this, actually, I'm a bit more forward and blunt; don't have to worry about personal attacks or people getting butt-hurt and bitching to mods IRL.

I'm a lot nicer to be around.

IRL or online?

Yes.

@Kashchei: Really? But I like you the way you are.

I know, I like me the way I am too. I also like the way my face is, so I try not to be as confrontational and argumentative as I am behind the screen.

You mean I don't have to worry about you popping up from a window with an AK?

Would I do that to you?

Depends; you might hate me after 6 months.

Wierdly enough, I'm more shy on the internet.

I'm personable and capable of sustaining actual conversation on the Internet.

I'm a lot more afraid of everything IRL.

Ok. So take the me you see here. Now add some speech patterns, an inability to control THE VOLUME OF HER VOICE AT ALL TIMES, lots of excited hand gestures, and so on and you have me in real life.

Now tone me down just a tad where swearing and saying weird shit comes into play and you have me at work.

edited 20th May '11 8:30:19 PM by Aondeug

Two completely different people, in pretty much every possible way. I'm more eloquent, open, nice, snarky, truthful and less fearful and hammy over the Net.

'Course, there's about 4 different "Real Me"s, so I'm not sure how much it counts. Pretty much everything I do is an act to make sure I can make/keep my friends and refrain from making any enemies. Internet's the one place where I'm genuinely myself.

edited 20th May '11 8:36:46 PM by Legionnaire

In Real Life, I'm more blatantly sarcastic most of the time.

I also have a slight stutter than acts up when I'm excited (not sex excited, adrenaline rush excited) and usually ends in me getting pissed of at my brain and screaming in fury.

This completely goes away when I've had a visit from my friend Kermit*

I also can't make links in Real Life.

Also also, In the real world I have a tendency to utilize my extensive vocabulary in a frequently ineffective effort to stall, that is to say, postpone the conversation in order to bestow more time in which to formulate a response.

This goes double when I've been drinking.

edited 20th May '11 8:41:02 PM by Diamonnes

I'm pretty much the same, except I can be wittier online because I'm given time to formulate a response...that and I don't stutter. I have a tendency to stutter when I get excited (or I've had a bit to drink), which isn't a factor in online interaction.

Other than the fact that I can be way more poetic online (because it involves the written word and apparently I've got gifts in that department or something), I'm pretty much the same drunken, irascible, devil-may-care story-yelling dude you all know and love/hate.

Never saw the point of an online "persona". After all, if I like you I might want to meet you, and if I front some bullshit, such becomes impossible. I'd rather just be me and hope the world is okay with that.

@Dia: Good job. Oh, you fixed it.

edited 20th May '11 8:35:47 PM by DrunkGirlfriend

I don't try to behave any differently online from IRL. In practice, online I'll tend to be more talkative and less inhibited, and I think my vocabulary is also very slightly different, but noticeably so.