How different are your online and offline personas?

[BigbadaBEEF]

Classic example, CoD4. if i hear so much as a word from anyone i will make it my duty to find my headset and spend half an hour relentlessly hurling abuse. Although that seems to be everyone's thing nowadays.
I'm far more polite in reality and forums but voice chat just seems to set me off

 

[Terror_666]

IRL I am your average nice guy, I'm polite, I try not to swear to much and I act like a professional. Online all the nice guy filters are turned off and my real persona appears, so online I swear like a fucking sailor, I don't give a shit about peoples "feelings", and I act like a 12 year old on my good days.

 

[insectoid]

Pretty much the same here. Why would I treat someone online different to someone I know IRL?

Anonymity maybe? No?

I don't like hiding behind anonymity. I'd rather just be me, everyone else can go jump if they have a problem with that.

In one statement you've contradicted the most basic dictum of the internet. Well done.

 

[Strategia]

I don't really have "online" and "offline" personas, I have different personas in different situations offline, and different personas in different locations IRL P). Although generally my online personas are "thinner" and closer to the core of who I am than my offline personas.

Oh, and one pretty major difference: Offline, when I want to make an argument, I can't respond quickly as I have to shuffle through my head to find what I want to say and how to say it, and when I find it the argument has usually moved on - or I screw it up somehow. Online, I can type out what I want to say, think about it a while, and thus produce fucking massive walls of text [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.126954#2683310].

 

[MelziGurl]

Pretty much the same here. Why would I treat someone online different to someone I know IRL?

Anonymity maybe? No?

I don't like hiding behind anonymity. I'd rather just be me, everyone else can go jump if they have a problem with that.

Exactly, embracing anonimity can lead to bad results see either http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/ or for those that have been, 4chan (i recommend that people who havent been to 4chan kep it that way)

I tried having a sticky beak at 4chan once, part of my brain broke up with me that day Me and my curiousity.

 

[MelziGurl]

Pretty much the same here. Why would I treat someone online different to someone I know IRL?

Anonymity maybe? No?

I don't like hiding behind anonymity. I'd rather just be me, everyone else can go jump if they have a problem with that.

In one statement you've contradicted the most basic dictum of the internet. Well done.

I am referring to my personality, which is what this thread is about...my personality does not change online, therefore I am not hiding it behind anonymity. However, if were talking about me in a physical sense, that would be a different story wouldn't it?

 

[UltraParanoia]

I'm exactly the same on and off the internet.

 

[AshuraSpeaks]

Very similar. I see no reason to act differently just because I'm behind a screen. The biggest difference is that I make more sense in text - I have a habit of talking quite fast and without thinking which results in a lot of rambling and crap when the wires get crossed between brain and mouth, whereas the time taken in typing and the ability to edit means I'm much clearer in writing. I swear a lot more in real life too.

THIS. Also, I'm much friendlier and outgoing because I lack the handicaps I usually bring, such as nervous body language.

 

[insectoid]

Pretty much the same here. Why would I treat someone online different to someone I know IRL?

Anonymity maybe? No?

I don't like hiding behind anonymity. I'd rather just be me, everyone else can go jump if they have a problem with that.

In one statement you've contradicted the most basic dictum of the internet. Well done.

I am referring to my personality, which is what this thread is about...my personality does not change online, therefore I am not hiding it behind anonymity. However, if were talking about me in a physical sense, that would be a different story wouldn't it?

I just meant, so many people come to the internet because of its anonymity, even revel in it, and you just go the exact opposite way.

 

[MasTerHacK]

I'm as crazy online as I am offline. Do you wanna see?

 

[MelziGurl]

Pretty much the same here. Why would I treat someone online different to someone I know IRL?

Anonymity maybe? No?

I don't like hiding behind anonymity. I'd rather just be me, everyone else can go jump if they have a problem with that.

In one statement you've contradicted the most basic dictum of the internet. Well done.

I am referring to my personality, which is what this thread is about...my personality does not change online, therefore I am not hiding it behind anonymity. However, if were talking about me in a physical sense, that would be a different story wouldn't it?

I just meant, so many people come to the internet because of its anonymity, even revel in it, and you just go the exact opposite way.

This is just another way for me to socialise when I have sweet fuck all else to do at home...or simply when I'm too lazy to go anything else, nothing at all to do with anonymity.

 

[MelziGurl]

I'm as crazy online as I am offline. Do you wanna see?

By all means, go nuts!!!

 

[Ultimathul]

I'm as just as uncaring on the net as in real life.

 

[Idlemessiah]

I talk a lot more online (you wouldn't know it from my post count to time ratio on here) but IRL I only tend to add about 6 words to a conversation.

 

[Azmael Silverlance]

Im the same generally. tho im more greedy. But then again there more things to be greedy about in the internet
Sometimes if im bored i can be a real ass tho xD . . .

 

[Joshroom]

Um, I'm probably slightly wittier online because I've got time to think up a response, although thats probably a matter of opinion.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I can form coherrent arguments better IRL, apart from that I'm the same. (yes I know, not even a split-personality disorder to spice things up (joking obviously))

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

pretty much the same. Sarcastic but kind to the point.

 

[Robert632]

the opinians on the internet are generally the ones i don't say because they would make people who i know offended. it's not that i'm a coward, it's just i hate offending people.