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[Kai Dracon]

Okay, so - a lot of people view the Internet as a big joke, or at least, impossible to really take seriously. (Of course, one should remember the wisdom: you get out what you put in to something.)

Because of this there are a lot of joke personalities, joke opinions, and whatnot posted online. Talking crap to stir people up or just chime in on whatever is the hip thing to mock, bait, or spread around is a major hobby. However, purely as a point of curiosity and for posterity, a question:

Is there anything you make a big deal about online - or at least in public forums, where you can perform for an audience - which you do not in fact have such a strong opinion of? Or at least, don't really care about one way or the other?

As a corollary to this question, a bonus round:

If you find you don't care about -most- things you make a big deal over online, do you also honestly think the Net is useless for anything real and sincere? Do you justify your behavior online this way? Or do you just consider this how you personally view it, and accept that the online world can have greater intellectual validity for others?

 

[J2 Cool]

what?

 

[MrPing1000]

what?

yes

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

No I'm pretty much the same online and off. It would take too much effort to create a "personality" I am the personality.

:lol

 

[SaitoH]

I'm pretty much the same in real life, except I look nothing like my avatar and don't draw smilies to convey emotion.

^w^

Ps. There are some pretty interesting characters on this site though.

 

[Dilbert]

WYSIWYG. Creating a different personality to use online...what's the point?

 

[Eminem]

yeah, basically the same. always love to talk about sports more than anything. constantly am listening to all kinds of music. take pretty much everything lightly. always whore and reference the same things over and over such as seinfeld and family guy, etc.

 

[belgurdo]

I don't like it when people talk about the "good ol' days" both in real life and on the Internet, since there has been bad things/ideas since the beginning of time, and nostalgia isn't a good enough excuse to just forget about those aspects of life/a particualr interest/whatever

 

[FrenchMovieTheme]

i'm the same online and off, except in real life i am a chick. here's my pic:

 

[Dilbert]

i'm the same online and off, except in real life i am a chick. here's my pic:

OMGhi2u!

P.S. I love Tower Records.

 

[Cubsfan23]

Sounds like the perfect thread to announce I'm really a 35 year old virgin living in my dad's office room, and am a taste tester for Frito Lay.

 

[Loki]

Good lord...

 

[Boogie]

Sounds like the perfect thread to announce I'm really a 35 year old virgin living in my dad's office room, and am a taste tester for Frito Lay.

I knew it all along!!

 

[White Man]

I'm as art damaged in real life as I am here.

 

[Crow357]

I'm the same IRL as I am on "the net". It'd be too much bother to create multiple personalities.

 

[J2 Cool]

i'm the same online and off, except in real life i am a chick. here's my pic:

Wow, you watch football, you're funny, and you got camel toe. I <3 you!






























P.S. And I haven't even mentioned your big ass titties or visibile nipples yet! They looook GREAT!

 

[Fifty]

Online I'm 6'2"

In real life I'm 6'1"

 

[Kabuki Waq]

Im same as i am online it think, but my friends say im more of an asshole offline.

 

[karasu]

I'm the same. It does seem like alot of people are just projecting an image when they're online though. There are far too many smartasses and wannabe comedians for me to believe that all of them are true personalities.

 

[3phemeral]

I would say I'm slightly more inhibited online than I am in reality. There's definitely a lot more to my personality requiring some gesticulated comedic instinct (I try to make up for that through photoshops ^_^) that I tend to act out a lot when I'm with my friends, but overall -- the same =) (minus the emotions).

 

[DMczaf]

In real life I'm a Kobe fan

 

[3phemeral]

In real life I'm a Kobe fan

 

[Docpan]

I read your post twice, and I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Instead, I'm going to click that pound button above where I'm currently typing this. I've never had a use for it, until now.

Wow, l33t codes.... I wonder if this unlocks debug mode.

 

[Triumph]

In real life, I drink slightly less and stir up more political shit. Think about that for a minute.

 

[Eminem]

I read your post twice, and I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

Instead, I'm going to click that pound button above where I'm currently typing this. I've never had a use for it, until now.

Wow, l33t codes.... I wonder if this unlocks debug mode.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol I don't know why this made me laugh so much

 

[Ned Flanders]

i'm the same online and off, except in real life i am a chick. here's my pic:

You, my friend, just flipped my horny switch.



*flops cock on keyboard*

 

[iapetus]

Instead, I'm going to click that pound button above where I'm currently typing this.

Pitiful that kids today don't know the difference between a pound and an octothorpe.

 

[Miguel]

In a former life, I was Slimer..

 

[Mike Works]

what the fuck?

 

[Miguel]

I didn't know about this til 2 days ago

 

[Willco]

I am about the same, except I use even more caps lock!

 

[GamerDiva]

I am not a Gamer but I sure am a bitchy and demanding Diva.

 

[Tabris]

I was expecting this topic to be about hockey...

...you know...Behind the Mask...with that Kelly Rudy guy.

 

[Manics]

If you find you don't care about -most- things you make a big deal over online, do you also honestly think the Net is useless for anything real and sincere? Do you justify your behavior online this way? Or do you just consider this how you personally view it, and accept that the online world can have greater intellectual validity for others?

I don't think the net is useless for anything "real" or "sincere" but I do know that alot of people view everything as one big joke, so I take everything I find online with a grain of salt. I've found these forums to be particulary good at giving techie and entertainment advice. I also get a good laugh at alot of the threads that go on here, cause alot of the members here have a good sense of humour which comes out in the posts.

So there, I'm basically the same way online as I am in real life, but I don't think that online forums are the be-all and end-all to people's problems and they don't need to be taken 100% seriously all the time.

 

[psycho_snake]

Unfortunately, when someone pisses me off online, I cant hit them in the f'cking face

 

[DCX]

I'm the same, although i seem alot more with it than on GAF. :lol And no, i don't end conversation by saying my name

DCX

 

[bjork]

I'm pretty much the same, except I don't talk too much to strangers. So like, if #ga were a party, I'd talk to the people I knew only, and just observe the other people.

But yeah, ever quirk I have online carries into my daily life.

 

[Miguel]

I'm pretty much the same, except I don't talk too much to strangers. So like, if #ga were a party, I'd talk to the people I knew only, and just observe the other people.

:lol

Tis true. :lol

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

well, i dont wear a cape in real life, but i do have a "darkman" style coat. and i laugh less. and am a bit angrier.......