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Sophistic Radiance
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online personas 2
#23463282 - 07/21/16 05:14 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Have you noticed that many people are really different in person from their online persona? I find that really interesting... like it's all the stuff we don't get to say and do in our personal lives that makes up our online persona. In a sense, our online persona is a manifestation or a representation of our shadow selves, and this forum is where our shadows go to hang out with other people's shadows.
People who have met me online and then in person were surprised to learn that I am not exactly the argumentative douchebag that I am online. 
I recently met with a Shroomery friend and what I found funny about her, is that she's not really a troll around here at all, but in person she's full of fake-mean deadpan sarcasm. I always expect the reverse to be true, that people are trolls online but less so in person, so it took me a while to suss her out
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Edited by Sophistic Radiance (07/21/16 05:21 PM)
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if you've seen Eyes Wide Shut, the experience on here is similar to the ritualistic masks that they wear on that movie. i like it, what you're talking about. oddly enough i've found that high school buddies that i knew really well are exactly the same online like on facebook. but meeting someone online first and then in person is totally different.
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I haven't really met anyone in person who I knew well online first, just a couple of people I did deals with off a coin site and one guy off Reddit who was a student in a class I was a TA for. I would be up for meeting people from here but never had the opportunity. I think my own persona on here is pretty similar to how I act with people I know, but I'm a lot more antisocial when meeting strangers or dealing with big groups of people. Unless I get really drunk.
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Re: online personas [Re: psi] 2
#23463499 - 07/21/16 06:12 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I'm pretty similar in real life. Like others though, I can be antisocial when meeting new people. Takes me a while to open up, and them I'm really social. Never considered meeting anyone here because there's a pretty good chance it could be an awkward experience. Not always, there are some people I jive with instantly.
I'd be more down to meet people in a concert or music festival environment as opposed to a kick it environment. Easier for me to let loose like that.
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PatrickKn said: I'm pretty similar in real life. Like others though, I can be antisocial when meeting new people. Takes me a while to open up, and them I'm really social. Never considered meeting anyone here because there's a pretty good chance it could be an awkward experience. Not always, there are some people I jive with instantly.
I'd be more down to meet people in a concert or music festival environment as opposed to a kick it environment. Easier for me to let loose like that.
shroomery camp at fests was usually a good time
biggest one i was ever apart of was 15-20 people, mostly long-term members
edit: i forgot i pissed of zippoz/capitalisticnomad at one fest. i was pretty spun and enjoying life, and it rubbed him the wrong way
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Re: online personas [Re: psi]
#23463546 - 07/21/16 06:22 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, same. It can take me a bit of time for to really come out of my shell with a new person. I've been told that my in-person self is a lot "softer" than my online persona, but as I've softened my online persona quite a bit recently they're probably more similar now than they used to be.
I think it's funny that I used to pick so many fights about really personal matters and then feel hurt by what gets said. I'm really quite sensitive, so I should have known better and protected myself instead of making a big deal out of everything. Live and learn. I'm guessing that I've gravitated toward argumentation online because it's something you never really get to do in person, and the opportunity to confront and challenge people with different views without alienating anybody in your personal life is seductive. It's especially true on a site like the Shroomery where people aren't attached to their real names or necessarily to pictures of themselves and you don't have your friends and family all there to see you acting like a belligerent turd
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Re: online personas [Re: PatrickKn] 3
#23463552 - 07/21/16 06:26 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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I find it's kind of funny sometimes meeting people that other people know from the internet. My wife and I have some friends who will have parties with internet randoms who they met off this fetish site, and it's weird seeing how a lot of them seem to interact in person as if they are on the site, awkwardly staging these "scenes" to take pictures of and then post. Like nobody seems to really be that into it, they're just trying to look cool to feed this online persona.
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I'm really mean and abusive irl.
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I don't believe you.
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i troll and act like a shit here a lot of the time, but every shroomerite i've met has told me i'm super chill.
being a shit head troll is fun on here
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I'm basically exactly the same person IRL as I am here.
But you're right - I've seen through the chinks of a few members online persona's and I've also found myself incredibly baffled by why people do it.
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dude im not even a real account. my entire personally is a scrapwork of post ironic garbage and bravado to hide the swirling vortex of mental illness hidden inside of me. im not even real. i dont exist
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I'm basically the same IRL. I look exactly like my avatar as well.
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i dont even have a personality offline
when im alone all i do is sit in silence and just zone the fuck out because trying to confront myself or do anything is a hellish task of indescribably difficulty
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Burke Dennings said: I'm really mean and abusive irl.
It's true, Burke made me cry when we hung out at the fest, he's a bully
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Someone has been playing too much shin megami tensei lol.... but id say you are right to an extent. Imho im pretty much the same if you were to meet me.
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Sophistic Radiance said: I think it's funny that I used to pick so many fights about really personal matters and then feel hurt by what gets said. I'm really quite sensitive, so I should have known better and protected myself instead of making a big deal out of everything. Live and learn.:
Yeah I ran into some problems with that when I first started getting active on the site again around 2011 or something. Most of the time now I just keep it light and stay out of threads that I have some personal stake in arguing. There are also a lot of details of my life that I never mention on here because I don't want people "getting" to me with them.
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Re: online personas [Re: psi] 3
#23463630 - 07/21/16 06:54 PM (7 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeah, I can tell you it really sucks when you can't just have a normal conversation without somebody constantly waving something like that in your face. It's incredibly frustrating. But, as I've stopped making myself into an issue, so other people have, too. And I'm surprised at how ready the community here has been to let the past be in the past. It's been really heartening to be given that opportunity to change for the better. I've been getting on much friendlier terms with so many people who I used to consider antagonists. I've learned that people usually take the chance to be friendly if you just give it to them and that is way more worthwhile than fighting all the time.
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Thanks, Vriska... that's really sweet.
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