<p>Do you ever think, wow, I’m not like that in real life?</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>I am more eloquent, more rational, more forgiving on cc than IRL.</p>
<p>I am funnier, more irritable, more interested in celebrity trash, and more girl-like in IRL than on cc.</p>
<p>Do others have this issue? Or do you all recognize yourself when you read your own posts?</p>
<p>On the net, I behave in a way I wish I can do IRL. I like my forum personality better.</p>
<p>I am a failure on c.c…I cannot spell beans, I could not spell when I was in 4 th grade and I can’t spell now.I am shameful here. I should be sent away.</p>
<p>A few weeks ago I was reading a thread that gets brought up every couple months but started over 3 years ago and as I was reading a response I was thinking “what in the world is this person thinking? ignorant little (you know)…blah blah blah…” and then I realized it was MY response. From my old username. Wow how things/viewpoints change from sophomore year of high school to freshman year of college. It’s fun to go back and laugh at your own posts.</p>
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I don’t.</p>
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Oh, absolutely. :D</p>
<p>The <em>ONE</em> thing that everyone from CC who has talked to me on the phone has said has been, “OMG, you’re <strong>JUST</strong> like you are ONLINE!!” :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Sometimes I post quicker than I think (and it comes out wrong) and wish I could take back what I said… I try harder IRL not to do that (but it happens). </p>
<p>Some people get really mean on cc and I can’t imagine that they are that way in real life…</p>
<p>Berurah - do you talk in colors:)?</p>
<p>Funny, ag54, I take a lot more time with my posts than with what I say IRL…</p>
<p>Well, I am definitely better at expressing myself via the written word, so probably I do seem more rational on CC than in real life. </p>
<p>Alu – I only wish I could claim to be eloquent, either in CC or IRL! Can’t seem to make it happen, even though I do try . . .</p>
<p>I recognize my posts, oh yes, and often <em>wince</em> at what I have said. But they’re <em>me</em>, definitely. </p>
<p>And I do not know how to talk about political things – I avoid those topics both on CC and IRL!</p>
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I agree. I’m friendlier, less shy, more articulate, and more likely to speak my mind. That being said, I absolutely recognize my real personality in my posts here; I may even be more genuine here than I am in person. I like that I don’t have to worry about whether my hair looks nice or if I should’ve worn a longer skirt or if people are lying when they say my accent isn’t really noticeable. I’m actually a very social person, but I have a tendency to get extremely self-conscious when I think people are judging me (which is usually). :o</p>
<p>I think sometimes my comments come off WAY more testy than I intend them. I need to remember to put the ‘winkywinks’ and ‘lols’ in so people know I’m trying to be ‘cute’ not mean. lol! 
:)</p>
<p>In person, I’m taller and wittier.</p>
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I talk in the verbal/auditory equivalent of colors! I’m VERY animated and effervescent, and the closest written translation is
COLOR!!!</p>
<p>I also WRITE in bright and bold colors: Purple, pink, and interesting shades of blue and green! :D</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>I’m not smart enough nor do I have enough energy to have two personalities. I yam what I yam. 24/7/365. Anyway, I send plenty of locals here that know I’m “curmudgeon” and would call me out if I posted something untrue. Heck, I’m working on some scholarship stuff with the daughter of a local judge I appear before and their whole family reads the site. LOL. (Hi, Judge!)</p>
<p>In addition I have shared with some cc’ers my names on other boards (girl’s basketball and motorcycles) and I’m the same there, too. LOL. I’m really pretty simple. ;)</p>
<p>Edit: I will admit that I ramp up the verbiage on this site from some of the others. On some I would get accused of having “dictionary mouth” if I let loose an “obtuse” or a “penumbral”.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t post anything that’s untrue either. My D would kill me. And I don’t consciously put on a whole 'nother personality. Maybe it’s just the difference between writing and not writing. When I write I am genuinely trying to communicate, and to use words as well as I can. IRL I am usually trying to get someone to do something, or to stop doing something, or I am comforting someone, or chastising them. I am rarely just putting my thoughts out there for the sheer worth of them. If I think my words will have no effect, I don’t say anything. Here, I know my words have no effect and I still talk:).</p>
<p>IRL there’s also just a lot of s*** you gotta say to get through the day. Like “Breakfast burrito please, Alice”, or “I am calling about my reservation - I never got the confirmation email”, or “Can you please tell me how late you are open?” Stuff you don’t have to think about to say.</p>
<p>Hmm. Larger philosophical questions of what is a self are occurring to me. Must banish them and get back to work.</p>
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Are you disclosing that you conceal your sesquipedalian tendencies so as not to appear egregiously pretentious in less enlightened venues? 
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<p>Uhhh… well, b. . I try my best not to be accused of being a smartA#$. Does that count? Your sentence would get me killed. After being ridiculed. I usually let “grunts and a series of clicks” suffice IRL and adjust upwards depending on my audience. Edit: Remember . I’m in Texas, “hon”. ;)</p>
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I am a Texan too, “sugar.” Trust me, I get it. BTW, I used to get berated on “mommy fora” for “using big words.” And that was AFTER I <em>thought</em> I had adjusted my communications adequately… <em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>~b.</p>
<p>Besides being taller and slimmer, duh, I am funnier in real life. I am the master of cracking up the room, the meeting, the whatever. Humour is my buddy in real life, it’s how I move a room to action. I admire the wit of behappy, Alum, SB, slugg, cur, driver (may she rest in peace), mini, 2noles…but I can’t make it happen by pen. I should be out in the hall with BHG for my poor spelling and grammar–and big lack of funny! <em>Hi BHG!</em></p>
<p>I am more daring in real life. I post daringly to some posters…Alum, FS, architecture kids…but not many. Usually I make cyber-nice and share my cyber-toys. I couldn’t establish two personalities if I tried. The one I represent IRL and cyberspace is plenty to handle. Tip myself over into double personalities? Wouldn’t be prudent… ;)</p>
<p>Likewise, I sense that few posters have seen through the cyber haze to my real ‘self’. They wouldn’t be surprised if they visited me at home. Others would be floored.</p>
<p>And that was AFTER I <em>thought</em> I had adjusted my communications adequately… <em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>b… Try my grunts and clicks idea. It works pretty dang good down to the station. Dang :eek: it’s past grub time. I thank I’ll git me an ROC Co Cola and a strawberry moonpie and hustle back to the j-o-b.</p>
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I was <em>just</em> fixin’ ready to try thet! ;)</p>