online personality vs real life personality

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Although I may be loud and opinionated... the noise I make loudest, and most often, is laughter.

Zat so, Phil?

 

[HellsKitchenmanNYC]

I have a feeling I"m more sardonic and slightly more confrontational here than I am in 'real' life, where I'm not much of either, but I'm not sure. You'd have to ask the peeps who've met me.

Yes and I am so online too. But we're frequently pushed to a point where we're not ourselves. Damn internet!
For me I'm generally low maintenance and congenial. I live to laff and laff to live. Constantly trying to find out who I am and like alot of other people that the stuff that's happened to me all my life and the fact I haven't thrown myself off a cliff is somehow a testament to something inside me that's strong and perservering. If I come of as mean or caustic at times online it's really about THAT moment and not my real life. You'd be hard pressed to find someone in my real life that described me as such. I'm a good guy and a fun guy to hang with; loyal and I look in yr eyes when you speak to me,

 

[D_Fiona_Farvel]

I am opinionated, flirty, and annoying at all times - however, I am also quite warm and loving, and that may not translate online.

 

[Mr Ed in Mass]

Well it depends what your agenda is on these online sites. I have hopes of meeting some nice people in REAL time, so why be anything other than yourself ?

Exactly.
Why pretend to be something you aren't? It seems to me that is deception and why would you want to lie about who you really are?
You can't have it both ways guy's.
Why not be true to yourself?
Mr. Ed

 

[Incocknito]

I'm sexier in real life. :tongue:

 

[B_Nick8]

I'm a good guy and a fun guy to hang with; loyal and I look in yr eyes when you speak to me,

That's as fine a description of you as I could have written. And cute, to boot.

 

[D_Kissimmee Coldsore]

I suppose I have a surrealist, dry and sarcastic sense of humor in real life, which doesn't really work on a forum so I tend not to try and be funny. In fact I don't even think I have an online personality to be honest.

 

[Bbucko]

You all have to be more bold here though. It's not like you go around in the real world blabbing you penis size and talking about the kind of porn you like.

I rarely blab about my penis here (as that's what the gallery's for), but I have no problem discussing porn or sex in mixed groups. The circles I travel in would expect nothing less. It reassures my old pals and properly terrifies the neophytes

In a social setting I am pretty much exactly the same person. In private I'm withdrawn and introspective. My roommate and I can spend all day in the same room and not say a word to each other, not because we're not friendly (just the opposite), but because we prefer silence to idle, nervous chatter. Our home can be so quiet that our occasional conversations can spook the dog and get her all worked up...really. I always thought real intimacy was feeling comfortable without the need for chatty silence-breaking.

It takes me a long time to prepare for social contact (a minimum of two or three hours after waking up before I have any interest in speaking to anybody). One of my favorite expressions is "I can't pull this much fabulous together in twenty minutes", but once I'm on, I'm totally committed to being on. If I can't give it everything, I withdraw.

 

[Phil Ayesho]

I'm sure you are Phil. I am quite fond of you. I now realize I should have put a smilie of some sort after my post to let you know I'm joking. Sarcasm doesn't translate well in print. My apologies.

No apologies necessary Jason.
I took no offense.

 

[Phil Ayesho]

Zat so, Phil?

Yes, only, not so evil sounding...

 

[OCMuscleJock]

I'm pretty much me...all the time. I'm not one to try to bring anyone down with whats going on in my life or what has happened that day. I'm a firm believer in positive energy. One negative person can ruin the mood of an entire group. I'm a genuine kinda fella and I figure...It's a small world. If you're gonna post pics online and talk to people....you may as well be the real you, because you may end up meeting some of those people you chat with someday.