Online personas? How can you tell if an online friend is for real?

[cindybc]

Or maybe that's just me. I tend to go on the feeling I get from a person, from watching the way they say things rather than just what they actually say... watching to see if they say one thing one time, but seem to have a personality change and say a different thing in the same situation at a different time. I go by intuition and 'gut instinct', too, and I don't know how or why this seems to work for me, but I do know that I'm rarely wrong. And all the friends I've made online have been good friends, people I trust, and people who, as yet, haven't betrayed that trust.

Leiandra

And such is the way it is for me as well with both folks online and out there. I can't say I don't have a soul or two that may have been disappointed in me and maybe even upset an apple cart or two in my life, but it was never anything I couldn't stop and least ways help them pick up the apples afterwards.

Cindy

[Stephanie]

I have noticed that I am more outgoing and confident Online.

I am out at every forum I frequent(I don't go in telling everyone that I am TS, but I do tell them early on).  I am out at home sort of and completely in the closet at university.  I love being able to express my true self online.  I am much happier, calmer, and friendlier online because I don't have to hide what I am. 
 

[Nero]

I have noticed that I am more outgoing and confident Online.

I am out at every forum I frequent(I don't go in telling everyone that I am TS, but I do tell them early on).  I am out at home sort of and completely in the closet at university.  I love being able to express my true self online.  I am much happier, calmer, and friendlier online because I don't have to hide what I am. 
 

ok. so with you, it's the opposite, you're yourself online and somewhat of a persona offline? cool. 

[KarenLyn]

Some of us are chameleons. Our personalities vary with the situation. There is a center or base but you're not likely to see it online. I'm not sure that that matters. I'm willing to trust as long as I'm not given a reason not to.

Karen Lyn

[Shana A]

I mean how would they keep up the act?

We all keep up an act, online or in real life. In fact I don't exist at all. Just ask ell. Oh, wait! She doesn't exist either.

None of us exist, we're all figments of Tasha's imagination 

Z

[Annwyn]

None of us exist, we're all figments of Tasha's imagination 

What happens to us when Tasha gets intoxicated, be it off caffeine or alcohol?

[Annwyn]

you either move really fast or youre naked.   

sometimes both.

That explains my personal life for the past 2 weeks very well...


"morning beautiful."  "oh hi... whats your name?  am I in Atlanta, Beaufort, COlumbia, Charleston, or Savannah?"

[sd]

ok. so with you, it's the opposite, you're yourself online and somewhat of a persona offline? cool. 

I am similar, way more reserved and shy offline, much more outgoing and definitely more myself online. Like I tell people online, this is me, the real world sees the fake.

[Lisbeth]

ok. so with you, it's the opposite, you're yourself online and somewhat of a persona offline? cool. 

I am similar, way more reserved and shy offline, much more outgoing and definitely more myself online. Like I tell people online, this is me, the real world sees the fake.

Ya, me, too.

None of us exist, we're all figments of Tasha's imagination 

What happens to us when Tasha gets intoxicated, be it off caffeine or alcohol?

you either move really fast or youre naked.   

sometimes both.

Ooooooooh!  That explains what was going on last night!

[cindybc]

Hi all, ahhhhhh ok that explains a lot. Tasha is the master engineered of this holographic universe.  This why the atomic structure can't be quantified to the sum of it's parts

Well I have more friends online for the simple reason I am a member to a good many different message boards, but I also have fair amount of friends out there as well.. I have aways got along with people and if anything since transition probably more so.

Cindy

[Kate]

But maybe it's just me and I'm naive but I don't get how or why someone could create a whole separate persona online. I mean how would they keep up the act?

Hey if I was making this story up, dontcha think I woulda thought up something more... well.. believable?

The Hallmark Channel would throw my script out as being ridiculously corny and contrived, lol...

~Kate~

[Annwyn]

Hey if I was making this story up, dontcha think I woulda thought up something more... well.. believable?

The Hallmark Channel would throw my script out as being ridiculously corny and contrived, lol...

The only thing I find unbelievable about your story is that you're not getting hit on every two steps you take.

[tekla]

Kate dear, reality is always a lot weirder than fiction.

[Annwyn]

Kate dear, reality is always a lot weirder than fiction.

Maybe cuz we WANT to believe in fiction.

Reality is just what we have to put up with.

[Kate]

The only thing I find unbelievable about your story is that you're not getting hit on every two steps you take.

LOL, well thank you, but I've realized and accepted finally that they just "wouldn't dare," if that makes sense? It's sorta like how only Arthur could pull Excaliber from the Stone: when the Right Person (IF - not that I'm looking) comes along, we'll "click," and it (whatever IT is) will happen.

Great, there I go with the Hallmark Story again...

~Kate~

[Annwyn]

The only thing I find unbelievable about your story is that you're not getting hit on every two steps you take.

LOL, well thank you, but I've realized and accepted finally that they just "wouldn't dare," if that makes sense? It's sorta like how only Arthur could pull Excaliber from the Stone: when the Right Person (IF - not that I'm looking) comes along, we'll "click," and it (whatever IT is) will happen.

Great, there I go with the Hallmark Story again...

~Kate~

but... but...

What is gonna happen between you and the wife person?

[tekla]

No, I think its more because fiction is a way to sort through reality, not the other way around.

[Lisbeth]

This why the atomic structure [ of this holographic universe ] can't be quantified to the sum of it's parts

I guess that's why sex can't be either.... 

[Nero]

the internet itself is actually a hoax perpetrated by one student at the university of north dakota's college of sheep-shearing and barbering.

and actually, nero, everyone you meet online is all the same person.

who is getting tired of staying up all night posting.  i banned myself the other day, and had a heck of a time figuring out who i was.

I thought I was you for 3 days one time.  I couldn't trust myself after I chatted with myself online and had one hell of an identity crisis.  Then I spent the next 2 days trying adamantly to find the Tasha inside of me.  On the third day my mind broke down, apparently it's hard being Tasha. I got an oil change and a jump start and here I am today!

O_O

I should tell you about the day when I had VNS, Vindictive Nero Syndrome.

Posted on: November 19, 2008, 04:44:48 pm

I mean, I'm just as much an ass online as in real life.

To be honest, you don't really come off as an ass to me.

Um.  Nero is quite the ass darling, he really is.  I think I've known Nero for what, 3-4 years now?  He breaks my heart every single day. 

Because you never listen. 

[Janet_Girl]

He breaks my heart every single day. 

My heart too Ann.  Nero