Your Online Persona/Personality V's 'Real Life'?

<Ollie> wrote: »

This is an interesting topic. Someone mentioned in another thread that "nobody's the same in every aspect of their daily life" and " you're not the same at work as you would be on a night out". Load of shíte, IMHO.

I couldn't disagree with this statement more. I'm the exact same person in my "everyday life" - at work, at home, in the pub and everywhere else for that matter. The exact same me!! Ollie.

My 'internet life' or my 'internet persona' is obviously going to be a lot different - as it's artificial, not real and it's only a virtual world.. It's impossible to tell what a 'poster' is really like. You can't even see the poster's face or their reactions for christ sakes, so it's obviously only a virtual world and not real at all.

Deal with it, and don't try to distinguish between the two please. Internet = not real life. FACT! If you really want to interact with people, communicate or transmit thoughts or feelings, then go to the pub please.

Beautifully put, couldn't agree more

Just wondering which one of your personas posted this thread?

edit: my internet persona is too slow

Not all people change depending on where who and how they are interacting it's a bad personality trait to do so
so the net can be real or fake but don't tar everyone the same

You're the same you, yes, but your behaviour is bound to be different - even if just a little bit - in the pub versus the workplace.

Just to have my say:

Everything I say on here I would have no problem with saying in person, and I frequently do. But I can completely understand why people might be in a position where giving a certain opinion in real life might lead to negative consequences (sc?). But here they have the opertunity (sc, again) to do so. To be honest I would draw a much more judgemental appraisal (I've given up sc,ing my post at this stage) of what people post in regards to people having a go at people than what the people may have said under the cloak of anonimity.















(Most times the word "people" was included in a post on boards? Priceless)

Dudess wrote: »

But you're going to behave differently e.g. when you're at the cinema to when you're at a football match - that's not "putting on an act", that's just conforming to certain accepted modes of behaviour.

thats my location not my enviroment
and i still disagree
at a football match i'm the same personality just i'm cheering at the cinema i'm trying not to talk because my personality is polite

but when people talk about online personalities they mean people that act differently to the same stimul;us

for example i fiind some internet warriors who i have met are polite and reasnoable in real life but online they are stubborn opinionated and patronising

i am not i am the same whether im online at a match a gig or in the library choosing a book

i'm not different when i'm out with lads or in with the missus
i'm the same when i talk to my mother as when i talk to a person in a shop
i might treat them differ my mum would be treated as my mum but the princaples and morals and belifes my own way of expressing myself would still be the same

if my mum asked me do i like headshops on the phone or a bloke on a horse in the middle of a field asked me it;'d be the same answer expressed the same way although id be looking up and talking louder to the bloke on the horse

the bloke who talked about being accepted and not having people pidgeonhole hum because the difffer in te way he is percieved i would ask this
surkey you are just allowed to be more yourself in this medium as it removes your fears and other poeples stereotyping and bigotry

naw a wanker on boards is wanker irl they just don't wanna show it

Biggins wrote: »

I think we are being a missing a bit of the fuller picture here.
In AH I can be a plonker - and god knows I do be - but in other sections such as the Politics, computers, and more serious sections I do be other types of mentality and deportment.
Over all in other words, the whole of my character and/or make-up is being expressed in some way I suspect.
Those that judge themselves just by the way their express themselves in one or two individual areas of the forum, depending on the "atmosphere" of those sections, are doing themselves no credit to seeing the full picture of their character being expressed across a wide and varied forum such as Boards.ie

I hope all that waffling above makes sense.

Yes but Biggins, I have read your posts on all the forums you post in and whether your being serious in Politics or having the craic in After Hours, it shines through like a beacon that you are the person that you are at the core, no matter what if you are online or offline.

I never get the sense that you have two different personas.

I distinctly get the impression that if I was to meet you for a pint, we'd talk politics and have the craic.

You seem very genuine to me and not all someone who changes online from the person they are in real life.