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[ThinAir]

My attitude in here is very much like the one I have in "real life"...

Unfortunately, it's quite a cavalier "it'll be rate" philosophy.

Eh well... Seems to be working!

 

[potsy]

I am shy and retiring in real life, just like on here really

Met plenty of CC'ers and there have been plenty I wouldn't have thought were the same person from their online persona

 

[Moon bunny]

I am a lot more talkative in real life than on the internet, I find internet arguments with people I know nothing about pointless, especially concerning politics. My speech is a lot less formal and "correct" than my writing, so it is.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

I am a lot more talkative in real life than on the internet, I find internet arguments with people I know nothing about pointless, especially concerning politics. My speech is a lot less formal and "correct" than my writing, so it is.

The incomprehensible NI twang

 

[Aperitif]

Yes the thought process that runs "just pull a face and they won't be able to use that one", doesn't really serve too well.

Ah, sorry. Didn't realise you had pulled a face.

 

[summerdays]

I'm composing this reply before reading the rest of the thread so I'm not influenced by what others have written.

I like the anonymity of hiding behind a made up name rather than using my real name, it makes me feel freer somehow. It's not that I don't want anyone to know who I am but more that I don't have to be who people think I am when I'm known by my real name. Not sure that I'm that much different to real life but perhaps a little more outgoing on here. And although we don't know each other (yes I know some of you do), we get to know the on-line persona and which ones we think we would cross the road or studiously look in a shop window to avoid in real life or which ones we would love to sit and chat over a coffee or glass of wine and cake. And yet in real life they might be completely different.

 

[Puddles]

I am told I write like I speak, but you have to know me in RL to know that I suppose. I have also been told that I can come across as a fluff brained ditsy air head online. My life mostly is sort of vaguely organised chaos I am un-sociable to a degree in life only because I have been subjected to "hello I am your new BFF syndrome too much so I will turn up at your door un-invited on a daily basis"

I do try not to offend people (I don't feel the need) I will debate something I feel strongly about but try not to get personal.

I am very very very shy in RL until I feel comfortable with someone, until I feel comfortable I will admit my fall back stance is to get very severe and reserved, a wall if you like that discourages people from interacting with me. I have had friends say you used to scare the sh*te out of me before I knew you.

So I am not sure what my online persona is ? mostly I am like I am and just write mostly with a filter as sometimes I realise type might not convey what I mean

 

[gbb]

...it's not surprisiing that there are many ways of posting on the internet in general, but I'm more interested in how you do it, or think you do it, on this particular forum. In real life we all, I suspect, interact in different ways depending on how well we know someone, what image we want to present, how serious the interaction is, and many more, but it's also about our perception of ourselves.
Do you think that you post on here in the same way that you would talk to somebody in the real world?
Are you deliberately provocative for comic or controversial reactions?
Are you self-consciously lighter on here for amusement purposes?
Do you feel affronted if others won't agree or be persuaded by your cogent argument?
I have no scientific reason for posing the question apart from the fact that I am occasionally amazed at the seriousness how some take themselves.
Of course, I'm aware that any of your responses will be laced with the lack of self-esteem you exhibit in all your posts
Waddya think?

Absolutely yes...and thats where it goes horribly wrong sometimes.
Have a mildly controversial opinion that goes against the grain, i'll say it to your face in a normal conversation, i'll say it in the forum....but the venom and bile that gets thrown back in the forum beggars belief.

If i were to cycle alongside the perpetrators, there'd be a normal conversation, if they disagreed with me, i'd smile and say either i may be a bit OTT at times, or thats their opinion, we're all different, life would be boring if we were all the same. In the same way, if someone said something i disagreed with, i'd argue...but with a smile on my face. 99.9% of face to face conversations would happen that way, why would you direct venom at someone who has at least a superficial kindred spirit ?. I'd direct venom at a paedophile or similar...but NEVER at someone who took the time to speak to me or ride with me or converse in a forum.

What is worrying is what does it tell me about the person directing such venom ?...for my simply having a controversial opinion. They'd NEVER do it face to face. They'd be labelled true peanuts if they did.

 

[Herbie]

...it's not surprisiing that there are many ways of posting on the internet in general, but I'm more interested in how you do it, or think you do it, on this particular forum. In real life we all, I suspect, interact in different ways depending on how well we know someone, what image we want to present, how serious the interaction is, and many more, but it's also about our perception of ourselves.
Do you think that you post on here in the same way that you would talk to somebody in the real world?
Are you deliberately provocative for comic or controversial reactions?
Are you self-consciously lighter on here for amusement purposes?
Do you feel affronted if others won't agree or be persuaded by your cogent argument?
I have no scientific reason for posing the question apart from the fact that I am occasionally amazed at the seriousness how some take themselves.
Of course, I'm aware that any of your responses will be laced with the lack of self-esteem you exhibit in all your posts
Waddya think?

Great question Rich....i'm with you on the amazement thing...yes folk do get het up about stuff on here...I like the banter that goes on...theres certainly some witty peeps on here..i like to think my persona is just the same in the real world as on here but for sure there must some that aren't

 

[theclaud]

I like to think that in "real" life I'm as affable, conciliatory and unfailingly polite as "theclaud", but it's a tall order. I've met rich p and I can confirm that he's not quite as much of a nobber as 3BM says he is. Not that that's saying a lot.

 

[I like Skol]

I am shy and retiring in real life, just like on here really

Met plenty of CC'ers and there have been plenty I wouldn't have thought were the same person from their online persona

You were expecting me to be a worn out, old, grumpy bald git weren't you? Not the energetic young slip of a thing that turned up......

 

[dellzeqq]

I like to think that in "real" life I'm as affable, conciliatory and unfailingly polite as "theclaud", but it's a tall order. I've met rich p and I can confirm that he's not quite as much of a nobber as 3BM says he is. Not that that's saying a lot.

I can confirm that theclaude is, in what passes for real life, patient with and kind to those less talented than herself. Notwithstanding, her patio is stuffed to the gills with those that have crossed her, so my suggestion is that you stay on her good side.

 

[theclaud]

I can confirm that theclaude is, in what passes for real life, patient with and kind to those less talented than herself. Notwithstanding, her patio is stuffed to the gills with those that have crossed her, so my suggestion is that you stay on her good side.

Pigs are also useful for disposing of people. So I hear.

May I be the first to confirm that The Real Dellzeqq speaks eleven languages, dances like Fred Astaire, knows how to make Feijoada and has buttocks like two billiard balls in a sock?

 

[EltonFrog]

I can confirm that theclaude is, in what passes for real life, patient with and kind to those less talented than herself. Notwithstanding, her patio is stuffed to the gills with those that have crossed her, so my suggestion is that you stay on her good side.

Pigs are also useful for disposing of people. So I hear.

May I be the first to confirm that The Real Dellzeqq speaks eleven languages, dances like Fred Astaire, knows how to make Feijoada and has buttocks like two billiard balls in a sock?

You two need to get a room. It's disgusting. I mean, really!

 

[Mr Haematocrit]

I sound like Joe Pasquale on the forum and Issac Hayes in real life

I would think I come across different on the Internet than I do in real life, not something I really intend though and I'm not sure why.