How does the "Real You" differ from the "Online You"

[madviking]

<--- this is an act

irl me is completely unlike madviking.

 

[SamSniped]

So IRL you aren't a very improper noun?

 

[Kyriakos]

The guy in my pics is some old victim of mine. I took images of him during a couple of weeks, to last me for many years online at a set rate of posting, cause due to the severed nature of what happened i can no longer return to an actual social life.

He did look good, though, didn't he?

 

[madviking]

So IRL you aren't a very improper noun?

i'm a mildly proper noun irl

 

[Hygro]

The guy in my pics is some old victim of mine. I took images of him during a couple of weeks, to last me for many years online at a set rate of posting, cause due to the severed nature of what happened i can no longer return to an actual social life.

He did look good, though, didn't he?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Finally someone who appreciates my humor

+1 if you laughed while accepting it was no joke either

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Online I talk a lot more than I do offline.

 

[Phrossack]

I am not actually a suave 50-something Austrian.

 

[SamSniped]

i'm a mildly proper noun irl

I feel lied to

 

[madviking]

I feel lied to

 

[Ironsided]

Online "anonymity" makes me more bold and vocal than I would be in public. But not a whole lot. I&#8217;m controversial at home and at work. I was punk age 15-25 and I&#8217;m still pretty much so in spirit.

 

[Tasunke]

Well there are a number of ways one reacts with the outside world. Online I'm more talkative than I would be to a complete stranger outside, yet am more polite than to one I know quite well in real life. Obviously in heated discussions there can be some exceptions to the politeness rule, but it seems, at least to me, that often anonymity can sometimes break down barriers to communication. It is just that, in some people, especially with immature impulses, this at first materializes into a sense that they can get away with anything, hence why the stereotype is that online banter is typically rude and obnoxious. It usually just depends on the age of the user AND the years of experience the user has with online communication.

 

[Commodore]

It depends on where I am posting on the internet. Here I am mostly myself, maybe just a tad bit more jerkish than I am in real life, but on sites like Youtube I am the biggest troll and just all-around terrible person you can imagine.

 

[Evie]

I used to be very different online and offline - snarky and outgoing online, withdrawn and moody offline.

These days, snarky and outgoing tend to apply to everywhere.

 

[Borachio]

Is that symptomatic of some profound unhappiness in you?

Or is it just that the world in general deserves your snark?

Or is it symptomatic of your growing self-confidence?

 

[Evie]

Mostly the third, maybe a little of the second, not the first at all.

It's not so much snark as a way of attacking people (though I can sometime head into that), as it is I have a very sarcasm- and mockery-centered (including self-mockery) sense of humor. It actually flows better IRL, what with sarcasm being much more noticeable in person.

 

[Azale]

A helluva lot less combative than I am on the forums. My chatroom/instant message personality is pretty much me entirely though.

 

[gangleri2001]

No differences. The gangleri you get here is the real gangleri.

 

[Masada]

I'm a pretty friendly sort of person offline. That's not the exact opposite of what I'm like online. It's just that I have a far lower tolerance for stupidity online than offline. I think that's just the nature of the medium.

 

[classical_hero]

I am not actually a suave 50-something Austrian.

That's a shame.