How does your internet persona differ from your real life persona?

I'm a bit a lot quicker to anger in real life.

"Yup. That tasted purple."

I feel like I'm a little nicer online. Still just as timid to speak up though.

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I'm more snarky and composed online.

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I definitely "say" more. I'm very quiet IRL, but online I can type up paragraphs and paragraphs on a subject I'm passionate about.

Even when your hope is gone, move along, move along just to make it through

I'm more talkative online, but in real life I can be very shy. Sometimes I only speak when I feel I have to. When I do speak in RL, I tend to be more sarcastic and cynical.

The big difference is that I've got some anger issues in real life. They're not as bad now as they were a few years ago, but I still will lose my temper for some stupid reason or another. When I'm online, I tend to be able to take a deep breath and think things through before I "say" them.

Beyond that, I'm more talkative and open about my opinions then in real life.

Needs Caffeine

I'm a shut in, shy, quiet, even somewhat aloof person in person. I barely ever talk to anyone. I do try to be nice and maybe even pop a joke here and there, but I don't speak much.

Maybe I'd be different around people I care for. I don't know.

I am more coherent and composed, due to being able to revise my responses before posting them, as opposed to my real life habit of starting a sentence, then restarting the sentence in a different way. I am also more low key, as I tend to gesture a lot and generally speak more empathetically IRL.

I'm much more talkative in general on the internet. I wouldn't exactly call myself "shy" in real life, but I definitely say less. I think that's mostly because everyone I hang out with is either uninterested in the topics that I talk most about, or would be scared off by them.

I also swear less in real life, because swearing sounds ever-so-slightly less juvenile in text form.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

Me too.

edited 15th Jul '12 4:59:49 PM by Frogger5

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I'm more social online. And I go from not ever swearing to swearing a decent amount. That's pretty much it.

PM box is always open.

I'm more argumentative here. Probably because there are more opportunities for arguments, and fewer people who I know I'm going to have to live with for the next few years and don't want to upset. I'm also more articulate, because of the time factor. I talk more about my religious and ethical beliefs here, because (once again) the opportunity occurs more often.

Apart from that, not much different.

Be not afraid...

I'm way more eloquent online than in person. Talk to me in real life and you'd wonder how I can string a sentence together between all the awkward pauses

I'm slightly wittier and less of a dork online.

Other than that, I dunno. Not much, I guess

It's one thing to make a spectacle. It's another to make a difference.

That's for me to know and you to find out.

O_o

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Due to having a delayed-reaction mental filter, off the Internet, I:

• Swear more (sadly);
• Am slightly less polite (usually to people I'm familiar with);
• Am significantly less articulate (if I have to talk about unfamiliar subjects, you can actually see me stutter to a halt);
• Am prone to outbursts of anger / frustration (it's improved over the past decade, but it's been a long road) when I'm not being apparently emotionless and deadpan;
• Am even more prone to make a fool or intolerable ass of myself. (Yes, even more than I am currently on TV Tropes. It's possible.)
• Am pretty much an Extreme Doormat.

So I guess I have the opposite of the GIFT, stemming from the same root causes. What would we call it, the LIFT?

edited 16th Jul '12 1:34:16 AM by Pyrite

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I'm more talkative online.

I don't really change online, but I when I have time to think about what I'm going to say (ie: message boards) I tend to say a lot more and be more eloquent about it. In rapid-fire online conversation (ie: instant messaging or in-game chat) I'm just as quiet as I am in person.

I tend to be more eloquent. Having something of a stammer has a lot to do with this. Not that I can't be perfectly eloquent in real life, of course, but it takes a few more seconds of planning ahead.

edited 16th Jul '12 1:27:10 AM by TheBatPencil

And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)

I'm more talkative online I find. Though still not that much. I find that I can definitely talk about something I like, but I can't ramble on about it like in person.

I also have a lot more respect for people online than I do in person, perhaps its because I expect a lot of people to know what I would think to be common knowledge. I also think I'm much more sane here than I am in person.

"You'd never do something as irrational as dying."

I talk a lot less on the internet, you don't see me here much. I swear a lot IRL and apparently speak almost like a bogan. So when i'm on the internet I try to not swear so much, I also try to argue less, well most of the time. I also don't say random and irrelevant facts that I just learnt all recently.

I'm more open on the Internet than in real life. I also steer well clear of controversial topics, whilst I love a face-to-face debate.

That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

I think I'm the opposite. Online I get my fair share of debates and long discussions. I'm not as confident to speak in front of people directly.

Overall my online self is more assertive and willing to speak.

Now using Trivialis handle.