Do you take yourself seriously on the internet?

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 12:20 am

Yea. I'm pretty much the same. I'm uptight in the real world, and I'm uptight here.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:06 am

godix wrote:
Arigatomina wrote:What I say is as awkward as what I type, though I have to rephrase myself more often in realtime. [ex: "I'd like to think so" gets a blank stare so I give a wincing smile and say "yeah, I guess"; "every so often" or "not usually" confuses a person so again with the wincing smile as I correct myself by saying "not much" or "just a little".] In type I use a sweatdropping smiley in the place of that RL wincing smile. ^_^;
Never clarify. If you're talking to someone that doesn't understand 'not usually' then you're talking to a moron and is it really worth your time to make sure a moron understands what you said? Personally I'll clarify if it's a legit misunderstanding of what I said but if the problem is that I used polysyllabic words they can't follow then fuck em, they can find some 5th grader to explain what I said if they care so much.

Ahaha!

I have to agree with this 100%

Online I'm pretty much the same as in RL. Except I don't say stuff like "in RL".
Anybody that has had an IM session with me has a pretty good idea of what I'm like. Bad jokes, and a tendency to ramble into different subjects.

Mostly, the students I work with all think I'm an asshole, pissed off all the time, and on the very edge of losing it and killing everyone. I don't bother to disabuse them of that notion as it works to my benefit. When I'm working I tend to be pretty militant. Sort of what you'd expect a cop to be like when he's giving you a ticket. When I'm not working I'm relaxed and cheerful.

My brother is the only person that can make me laugh so hard I have to pull my car over because I can't breathe.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 1:35 pm

im very quiet in rl, i don't know if people can tell on the forums. one thing i notice is that i hate interrupting people and i hate being interrupted. thats why its much easier for me to join a discussion on the forums than in rl.

Shazzy · Post by **Shazzy** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:13 am

I'm more talkative online because I can usually find a greater concentration of people who I have more to say to than "who ate my yogurt?"

Minion · Post by **Minion** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:07 am

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 3:51 pm

Shazzy wrote:I'm more talkative online because I can usually find a greater concentration of people who I have more to say to than "who ate my yogurt?"

I don't generally talk to people I live with very often either, but I talk a fair amount at work. It's an even mix between talking and singing. >.> I loves to sing me some Boston.

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:13 pm

Minion wrote:

That makes no sense. Why is he smiling if it's serious business?

SarahtheBoring · Post by **SarahtheBoring** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 10:49 pm

I don't take myself seriously either on or offline. I mean, really.

I don't post pictures very often, so yeah, there's a disconnect. It's easier to just announce every so often what the real situation is so that people have a chance to run like hell before they get to like me accidentally.

I type the way I think, but not the way I speak. I speak like the awkward, garbled idiot I am, albeit an awkward, garbled idiot who says things like "indeed" and "albeit." Some habits come through - I'm not an attention whore, I mostly sit back and chill, I don't take my hobbies that seriously even if I spend a lot of time on them, etc. But the important part is missing. It's not an intentional persona, though. I'm bummed out when I accidentally mislead somebody like that, 'cause it's not a nice thing to do.

I sing normal sentences when I'm frustrated. I have a long habit of swearing at videogames in this weird singsong tone that I didn't even realize I had until a friend pointed it out last year.

JudgeHolden · Post by **JudgeHolden** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:13 pm

I am the internet ....

Ileia · Post by **Ileia** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:22 pm

JudgeHolden wrote:I am the internet ....

I AM THE GATEKEEPER.