<p>I’m with cheers, I am not a gifted writer and seem to always struggle to adequately convey my brilliant thoughts 
And funny :eek: I cannot write funny, but then my H says I cannot do funny IRL either, though if I feed him the lines, he can crack up the room, so I guess i think funny, but lack the delivery ;( I yearn to write with the wit of Slugg, Curm, etc.</p>
<p>While I really am an excellent writer, I tend to be a scattered post-er. I am usually multi-tasking as I read cc posts, and I tend to reply using only part of my brain!! Sometimes I will re-read my post & realize that I was thinking something but forgot to tell the rest of you folks. Result? It comes out differently than intended. BUT … the cool part? Y’all don’t know me, so no one can come t.p. my house!! BTW, I am rapidly becoming my mother, and I am amazed sometimes when I look in the mirror … is THAT really me?! I need to try harder to at least seem intelligent & witty, because now that my super-model looks are fading, it’s all I’ve got. And yes, I do intend for THAT statement to be sarcastic. :)</p>
<p>I’m exactly the same, except I talk a LOT more IRL, ask my husband. 
I’m very animated IRL too, so I need the smileys, winkys, exclamation points, etc to express myself!!! I understand some people hate them, but that’s me. :D</p>
<p>I am taller and slimmer on cc than IRL. Way. And ever envious of those of you for whom it is the opposite way around.</p>
<p>When I read my recent posts, I am impressed with their eloquence and wisdom. LOL. But when I go to the way back, not so much. </p>
<p>Two personalities - one for cc and one IRL? That would be an awfully lot of work. I’d need some kind of a crib sheet to know who I’m pretending to be.</p>
<p>I am shocked by the number of typos I make. Is there a spellcheck capability on CC?</p>
<p>Have returned from the philosophical black hole. </p>
<p>It’s not about having a fake personality you put out here. It’s just about who it is possible to be when we have a Edit key. And a Submit button. Like I just went back and made the E of Edit upper case. To go with the Submit. To be clearer, maybe more impact. I don’t have that liberty IRL. </p>
<p>When my kids were little I wished they just came with an Off button…I wonder who I would be IRL if I had a Submit button. Or an Edit button…with a 20 minute limit of course.</p>
<p>The browser on my family’s laptop (a MacBook; my own iBook from '04 died recently :() actually has a built-in spellcheck. I don’t know if it’s Firefox or if it’s included with the newer Macs, though.</p>
<p>I am very true to life on CC and other forums. This may not be a good thing, but I am what I am!</p>
<p>I think the filter that gets imposed is to “remember your audience”… what I mean by that is that we can post to just launch our own thoughts… we can post to respond to someone…sometimes I post for a specific person/userid and sometimes I just post to put my thoughts out there for whoever… because we have limited to no knowledge about our audience … we can be much more lenient in how we “converse” vs IRL where we are usually dealing with the specific audience… </p>
<p>I know that I have a problem with not completing sentences… and that using the … makes it more difficult perhaps to understand me? I have said before that I have my own images/ideas of who repeat posters are…and it is fun to have these pretend people in our discourse… I too dabble here when I should be dabbling with real work… I view it as a technology “coffee break” I guess…</p>
<p>I remember someone said once I was ranting like Mini. I thought it was a complement!</p>
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<p>Perhaps Billy Joel said it best:
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<p>NO ONE is the exact same person in all venues to all people. Communication is a two-way (or MORE) interaction, and your reaction depends upon the other party(ies) in the conversation, whether it be IRL or online. </p>
<p>Some people, for whatever reason, come across more consistently in both venues. Others, for whatever reason, feel more “at home” in one or the other venue. This doesn’t mean that either one is “fake,” but rather reflect two sides…or as Mr. Joel says, two faces, of the same person, both legitimately his.</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Good point, Berurah! (and I love Billy Joel, too)</p>
<p>I think my online personna is pretty similar to me IRL. CC me is MUCH taller and MUCH slimmer than IRL me, though. CC me has a new-Kelly Pickler bustline, too. IRL me—not.</p>
<p>I sometimes type out a nasty response to something on CC, and then delete the whole thing so I don’t come off sounding as rude as I really am. Hopefully my self-editing keeps the evil-me in check sometimes. But really, sometimes don’t you just want to slap these people? :)</p>
<p>astro: slap the people on cc or IRL??? :D</p>
<p>I find on CC I’m much more articulate. But I love to write what I mean; it forces me to think clearly and be succinct.</p>
<p>I once arranged a party (big party – 100 people) at a place by phone. When the evening of the event arrived and I met the woman I had been dealing with telephonically, she told me she thought I was “MUCH taller!” (I’m only five feet tall.) I guess I have a tall voice.</p>
<p>I am pretty much as self-important, long-winded, insufferable, and annoyingly Socratic in real life as I am on CC. I say “uh” a lot more, though. (And variants of “****”, too, more than I mean to.) I do smile a lot more, and it is somewhat easier to tell when I’m being sarcastic, because my voice has actual tone. But my sentences are even longer, because I can’t go back and break them up.</p>
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<p>I guess that makes you a mini-mini.</p>
<p>Oh, and this, too: I sound much more authoritative on CC than I do in real life. In person, I tend to talk much more like, “Um, sorry, I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, but–I was thinking that maybe this is how–I mean, I might be wrong, but I figured I should mention it anyway because, er, I don’t know, nevermind, actually. Sorry about that.” :o</p>
<p>On CC? “Actually, it works like this.” 
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<p>Interesting thread. Of course, it’s nonsense so it sucks me in like a moth to a flame. </p>
<p>I’m probably very similar to my online persona in real life. There’s no way I could fake myself, I’d lose track of what I was faking over time. I suspect most of us are this way. How can you imitate or parody accurately what you can only see a reflection of? (This is a jym question…back to the couch! :D)</p>
<p>Hmmm…I feel a thread coming on…along these lines.</p>
<p>I am just as pedantic and annoying IRL as I am on CC, according to my charming daughter, who actually checks on me from time to time.</p>
<p>As I would have expected , some of y’all are very self-actualized folks. Good for you. Life is better that way. </p>
<p>And Camelia - speak out and use your strong voice in real life , too. You have something to say girl. Say it without mincing words.</p>