» Mon Dec 21, 2009 2:57 pm
Good idea for a topic OP :goodjob:
I'd say I'm actually more of myself here than I am in real life. Online, I can take all the time I want to type out a message or a post, so I have plenty of time to say what I want to say. In real life, I don't have that luxury. The person I act like online is the person I am in real life, except in real life it's much harder to be that person. Whereas online I can have an intelligent conversation with people and convey my point clearly, in real life I have somewhat of a stuttering problem and am terrible at conveying what I'm trying to say. Don't get me wrong, I usually can, but it comes out sounding much less intelligent than I would make it sound online. Not because I have to be online to "sound" intelligent, but because I can take all the time in the world to do so. I usually have to be pretty comfortable with someone before I can act like I do online with them in real life, but I don't think anyone in real life has seen me act like who I am online. I'd be delighted if they could though.
That's not to say, if any of you met me, all you'd see is a stuttering mess that can't put a sentence together, because I'm not, it's just that I'd seem a fair amount less like the person I am online. You wouldn't be like "Who is this man and what has he done with Antibody," but more like "Why do you keep stuttering!?"