How different is your NSC persona from you in real life?

[Goldstone1976]

There have been a few threads recently where I and others have been left wondering if some of the posters are posting as themselves or whether they have developed a new persona either for a specific thread or, in some instances, for all their NSC musing.

So, do you take the opportunity to portray a totally different persona on here to your real life persona? If so, does the anonymity afforded by t'interweb allow you to express thoughts/opinions that you genuinely hold but feel unable to express in real life, or is it all a big wind up? Or....what?

For me, how I am here is pretty much exactly how I am in real life. I save my alter ego for WoW.

EDIT: Oh, I'm a bit more sweary irl.

 

[KZNSeagull]

I'm a boring old fart in real life too. Don't see the point of pretending to be something you are not on t'ínterweb, although I am sure many on here do.

 

[StonehamPark]

There are multiple knobs on here that post things here that they would never get away with in the 'real world'.
so yes, I'd say there are a few that alter their personas!

 

[dingodan]

Sometimes I like to give NSC a little piece of myself which nobody else sees.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Quite close, I'd like to think I'm fair, easy going, honest, funny and was on a sequence of 110 'thumbs up' until I joined in agreeing with that Oscar Garcia song yesterday.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Quite close, I'd like to think I'm fair, easy going, honest, funny and was on a sequence of 110 'thumbs up' until I joined in agreeing with that Oscar Garcia song yesterday.

Do let me know when next you get to 109, won't you?

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Do let me know when next you get to 109, won't you?

Was it you? It's a fair cop I should have left alone

 

[dingodan]

I'd like to think I'm fair, easy going, honest, funny

Don't forget modest.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Was it you? It's a fair cop I should have left alone

Nah, it wasn't me. But, there's time.....

 

[Chinman3000]

Quite close, I'd like to think I'm fair, easy going, honest, funny and was on a sequence of 110 'thumbs up' until I joined in agreeing with that Oscar Garcia song yesterday.

If that thread gaining nothing else, this was a success.

 

[Munkfish]

I communicate better in person and I am much louder in real life.

 

[BBassic]

I'm quieter in real life.

I find it hard to articulate my thoughts when speaking so end up babbling and losing the interest of whomever I'm talking to. Much prefer to communicate through text. Gives me time to organise my thoughts and get across what I intend to say.

 

[Machiavelli]

There have been a few threads recently where I and others have been left wondering if some of the posters are posting as themselves or whether they have developed a new persona either for a specific thread or, in some instances, for all their NSC musing.

So, do you take the opportunity to portray a totally different persona on here to your real life persona? If so, does the anonymity afforded by t'interweb allow you to express thoughts/opinions that you genuinely hold but feel unable to express in real life, or is it all a big wind up? Or....what?

For me, how I am here is pretty much exactly how I am in real life. I save my alter ego for WoW.

EDIT: Oh, I'm a bit more sweary irl.

Care to divulge who/what these are?
The format of an online chatroom does lend itself to a more unpleasant approach, especially when you're speaking directly to your interlocutor and, even more so, you're doing so in the presence of others.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

There have been a few threads recently where I and others have been left wondering if some of the posters are posting as themselves or whether they have developed a new persona either for a specific thread or, in some instances, for all their NSC musing.

So, do you take the opportunity to portray a totally different persona on here to your real life persona? If so, does the anonymity afforded by t'interweb allow you to express thoughts/opinions that you genuinely hold but feel unable to express in real life, or is it all a big wind up? Or....what?

For me, how I am here is pretty much exactly how I am in real life. I save my alter ego for WoW.

EDIT: Oh, I'm a bit more sweary irl.

I hate cyclists in real life too..
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[Goldstone1976]

Care to divulge who/what these are?

I started typing a reply listing generic thread types and stopped for two reasons. Firstly, I had got to six types of thread and had another two types in mind. This made me think that there isn't a specific genre of thread. Instead, it's all threads that create a strong dynamic tension between members. Secondly, if I listed specific threads, this could be interpreted as a dig at the posters on those threads, which would probably derail this thread.

 

[Creaky]

Much the same in real life - stubborn old git with an unlikely mix of right and left wing views!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

I'm a MUVVA ****IN GANGSTA in real life.

Here, I'm an English Gentleman.

 

[Biscuit]

I'm probably less negative in real life.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Much the same in real life - stubborn old git with an unlikely mix of right and left wing views!

Must make voting tricky!

 

[Norman Potting]

Interesting thread - short answer is "don't know". Someone could set up a research project on it?