Internet you vs. real life you

RL me: I'm actually funny and random around all my friends. But around my family I'm very quiet and keep to myself as theres a lot of backstory and drama where that is concerned.

net me: It takes me a while to get involved and try and fit into a community (such as here) but once I do I really just kinda let my inhibitions go and talk and do a lot of things. I'm not really argumentative by nature either way so I usually tend to avoid too much confrontation unless someone really hits my no button. Work wise though - since I do professional stuff - I'm pretty open, but know when not to mix business with pleasure. And thats about it.

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RL: Funny, smart, scary and sometimes totally random, known by my schools administration as the 'Nutorious Mr. Wilson' and can be the best friend you ever had or the worste enemy you will ever fear. Single, and surrounded by friends

IN: Smart, Frightning and sometimes hard to understand. Takes a while to get used to me and sometimes can be seen as an asshole at first. Takes time to get to know me, just usually talks about what i am interested in. Posts rarely, but when i do it is benificial and insightful and most of the time worth reading. Never posts about a topic unless knows about all the facts. Sometimes bad grammer.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

I tend to be more logical and organized when I correspond through IMs or forums. In real life, I am more reserved though not exactly shy.

How ya doing, buddy?

Outside my internet persona, I'm sarcastic, but try to be funny and make light of situations. On the internet, I'm a little more serious, but I still try to retain a cerrtain degree of humor. I guess without body language and changes of tone in voice, the internet turns "talk" into discussion.

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Internet Me: Cocky, Trys to be informative. Will act like a bitch if I feel I must. Polite, unless you piss me off.

Real Life Me: Cocky, Trys to be informative. Will act like a bitch if I feel I must. Polite, unless you piss me off.

Seriously, There's no difference for either, I'm either cocky towards whatever I excell at and I try to be informative. And no I'm not generally bitching at people just If I feel I must I will. I am polite just If you piss me off I piss you off.

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Eh, I'm about the same on and offline. In real life I'm sarcastic and have a tendency to put swear words in completely random phrases. I find it hard to be sarcastic online since people will end up eventually twisting your words and making you sound different than what you intended.

How ya doing, buddy?

I am fake everywhere...in life and internet

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Real me = ponders possibilities and angles on everything, talks things through, negotiates, engages in diplomacy, leaves things open-ended most of the time

Internet me = thinks at least 2 seconds before hitting "submit" button...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

HAHAHAHAHAA, i have had all too much experience with this. Apparently my personality does change over IM's because my friends made a nick name for me for that personality. Apparently i become a real asshole and really pushy, but know that i know this i have been trying to curb the behavior, so far my "on-line" personna has not shown up

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

The internet me is generally shy. Most of the time I speak in my mother tongue (Cantonese) so I'm not that confident in English (especially when I'm in a forum).

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Originally Posted by FallDragon

When you talk on forums/IMs/chatrooms, do you behave and say the same things that you would in person? For myself, I typically debate stuff more often than I would in real life. I think a product of forums/online conversation is that I take a completely logical approach to conversation most of the time, which I don't do very often in real life (I joke around 90% of the time in real life). Anyone else notice a difference between their online and real-life persona?

I find I'm a lot like you, but I'm also very shy like in RL.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm on Internet as I am on real life.

How ya doing, buddy?

I think the main difference with me, is I'm more out-going and I'll ask more questions then I would in person. Other then that I try to stay as real as possible online and off.

FELIPE NO

The real me and the interent me used to be quite different. On the interent i used to be alot more outgoing and in real life i was very shy and reserved. Now my real life has rubbed off on my internet self. What you see of me on here is what i'm really like. I can still be a little more outgoing on the internet than in real life but not often

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On the intrnet it is more about me being a one woman army. I stick up for myself more and don't really care what people think or say about me, as long as I come out on top in the end.

The real me is one of those "too nice" types who gets walked all over. that's the problem with being nice. People take it for granted and you get shat on daily. I always put everyone before myself. The thing is, lately I have seen the internet me make a cameo in real life lol.

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I have exactly the same reactions to things online as in real life but I feel that something about the internet makes you more hopeful that your ideas will get out to the masses. In a forum like GFF, you hope that most likely a couple of people will read the stuff you write and maybe actually care. Maybe it's just wishful thinking...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

RL: I'm an extreme clutz which is something you can't see in the net. More shy to an extent though I won't hesistate to talk about political stuff and whatever.

IL: Well kinda a bit more logical and more responsive to some things. But still not a social "butterfly".

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I'd like to say that I'm a very similar person both online and offline. However, if I were to say this, I could probably be rightly accused of lying. xD

In reality, I hardly have anything worthwhile to contribute to a conversation. If I putforward anything at all, it's generally a half-baked opinion expressed incoherently. Generally, however, it's nothing at all.
I can be very shy at times, and if I don't make a conscious effort to avoid doing so, I will become very embarrassed about the most negligible of absolutely insignificant nothings.

Online, I probably come across as someone who's more composed. My written "speech" is generally better than my spoken speech. I'm not quite sure why this might be - perhaps it's just the way my mind works (you have more time to structure your replies online, for example).
I might even appear as someone who has a clue.
Since I type quite fast, it often looks like I respond readily, and am interested in the conversation.

I guess I hate both manifestations of myself though, so that's one thing they both undoubtedly have in common.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

my girlfriend that i met online then moved in with a year later...

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(8:17:36 PM) xKisaragiYuffie: tell me how im diffrent
(8:17:48 PM) fluffy: hmm
(8:17:57 PM) fluffy: I dunno
(8:18:18 PM) fluffy: your quieter
(8:18:40 PM) fluffy: I dunno
(8:18:47 PM) fluffy: your not that diffrent
(8:19:02 PM) fluffy: you get more annoying in rl sometimes lol
(8:19:16 PM) xKisaragiYuffie: hey!
(8:19:19 PM) xKisaragiYuffie: how am i annoying?
(8:19:21 PM) fluffy: lol
(8:19:37 PM) fluffy: I dunno you just are
(8:19:38 PM) fluffy: lol
(8:19:40 PM) fluffy: *kiss*
(8:19:45 PM) fluffy: but not that much lol

idk really. irl i keep to my self more, i avoid people i dont know, im just shy. ( and annoying it seems >< )

online, im much more outgoing.

I was speaking idiomatically.