Is there a difference when I'm online rather than in real life?

Well, when I'm online, there is no danger of me being arrested ...err... Never mind.

In person, do you pretend to be alf, too?

Pretend? Do you have something against us Melmacians?

I think it can depend on the environment. I may be a little livelier here than how many IRL see me now because I tend to be quite shy & quiet in person till I get to know people and I am pretty new in town where I live now while I have been on here in the forums for a few years and know many of the members thru here.

but in essence I am the same on here - as I am IRL

I am ancient at heart.


maybe you can tell us how King Tut escaped from his tomb....

Im the samebut there are some things  can do or say on here that i feel more comfortable doing...bcuz so many pple look to me for answers through the day...feels good to coversate with new people on here n let loose lol :)

Yeah a lot of people are like that like some people could chat up a girl and say certain things (tryna keep it PG13 here lol) that they wouldn't say face to face or to a girl they knew instead of online.

I am same online and offline.. but i m different in professional life and personal life. so people who know me professionally might find some differences

I am livelier in real life. Online here, I do not know people on Mingle2. People I met inperson from other sites know me well.

Nah, mine is pretty accurate.

I'm cynical, can't stand the lot of ya, and am working on burning the world...Yep, that's me.

I'm taller in real life.

. I think it IS a good thing. Yeah. Kidding. What good would that be really? Only to find that when it came to meeting them offline, they were different from what you thought, so you only end up rejecting them, because they faked. If anyone seriously wants to play The Mask, then go right ahead, but making up characters isn't MY thing, unless you write fiction, or do acting, then I'd accept it. Kind of.

people cant see the real person online, so we partly imagine the person to fill up the things we dont know about him/her
online- i m the same to what i m offline. the difference is u spend more time with me u will kno more about me.. so if any online acquaintance gets to know me offline he/she can discover much more about me which may/may not match with his/her imaginations

I'd say I would be more quiet in real life. Most of my days, I work by myself, with little contact from others. Anytime I do get in contact with others, I've had a few minutes to collect my thoughts, and I can focus on the subject at hand.
Being spontainious, which for men is an escential part of making a connection with most any woman, is where I come up short.
For right now, the printed word works better.

I'm pretty much 'what you see is what you get', I say things how I see them, not always what people want to hear but I'm an honest person.

Not into lying or 'massaging the truth' as you soon get found out.

If you are looking for someone to share your life with, what's the point in being two different people?

Im same person both irl and online. it is just that i dont feel shy chatting online, whereas i feel shy and hesitation talking to new people in real life. dont know why. but im trying to improve myself. otherwise im the same.

Agree

This is one of those topics that comes up ever so often, and my answer is the same. I think we are all different depending on the type of setting. You might think or want to project that you are the same, but if I turned the camera on you right now many of you would go running (me included probably).

I have not met very many people in real life who were the same as when we spent time on the phone, or email, or skype, or...

How many times have you talked to someone for a long time but when you meet and spend a few days together you start to pick up on their essence, and their essence was different. Hey, even your brothers and sisters after you all leave home change and when you go back or they visit you, they are different.

As much as we try to be ourselves or think we are being ourselves the truth is the way our brains work (most of the time) is that when asked a question there are 2 responses and those responses are usually blended together. One is a true response (hopefully) and the other is the response you want others to hear or think. Sorry I didn't make this rule it's reality though.

Those of you who have taken psychology or social behaivor courses have all been taught this. Hey, don't shoot the messenger (that means you, put that gun away), I was just as shocked at this as anyone, but when the experiments were done on me I (and everyone else in my class) reacted the same ways.

You have two sides (actually more) (oh, and yes this makes you two faced) one side reacts very quickly without much thought, and the other makes you react after you study the question. The shocking part is how different these two answers are usualy. The part of you that has to think (everyone of you reading this right now are using this side) is basing your answer on a lot of variables.

Do you know that when you are at work for example and are asked a series of questions that make you make decisions based on a completely different part of your thinking process then the same questions being asked of you at home or even when your out partying many times are answered differently and stimulate different feelings?

Guys more than girls BTW, answer questions differently when being asked by a woman than they do a man. There's all kinds of things that we say and do differently because of how our autoresponse systems are trained. The brain is a big place.

BTW, it doesn't make you good or bad by answering or being different at different times, it's just a part of being you.

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