Who are you online?

[torn asunder]

i think i tend to be a lot more fun/friendly irl - i'm sure i give off a decidedly negative/down/jaded vibe online. (which isn't entirely inaccurate, but i hide it better in person! lol ) in both cases, i rarely start conversations unless i've had a few drinks, and then i can sometimes be almost too forward for my own good. i tend to be a *lot* more open online regarding personal thoughts & feelings, too, because chances are, i'm never going to meet many of you - in person, i rarely talk about any personal matters, because, honestly, who cares? people want to hang out to have fun, not listen to sonebody whine...

umm, anyway... yeah... :erm :whistling

[Paper Hearts]

i can be a real bastard on here, sorry.

in "real life", (ie: weekends) I'm a nice, sloppy, drunk-that's how people from here get a chance to see me, anyway.

[Dollardave]

I met u before you're a really nice guy. I seen u taped my private idaho u said in a post thats River Phoenix isn't it?

i can be a real bastard on here, sorry.

in "real life", (ie: weekends) I'm a nice, sloppy, drunk-that's how people from here get a chance to see me, anyway.

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[Paper Hearts]

Thanks $Dave; you're a nice guy too. -Damn straight it's River Pheonix. Haven't seen it in years, can't wait...

[Jarodaka]

I'm the same online as IRL. I occasionally say something witty or funny, but generally I'm lurking in the corner and avoiding political discussions as much as possible.

[Guest Megalicious]

i can be a real bastard on here, sorry.

in "real life", (ie: weekends) I'm a nice, sloppy, drunk-that's how people from here get a chance to see me, anyway.

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I think your a really nice guy On DGN and when i happen to get a chance to see you on the weekends. =)

[Fierce Critter]

on the internet you get more time to think about your response

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Which is more to the point that I don't understand the concept of "Xxxx is an asshole online but is really nice face-to-face".

Having that time to think about your response and possibly edit it for tact, yet choosing not to tells me that said person really IS an asshole.

I would tend to think people come off a lot more HONESTLY on the 'net. Expressing feelings & opinions they might not feel comfortable sharing in a face-to-face situation.

[JaneDead]

I would tend to think people come off a lot more HONESTLY on the 'net. Expressing feelings & opinions they might not feel comfortable sharing in a face-to-face situation.

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ditto ditto that. which can be good... but can also be deadly. :devil

[Black Sunday9]

sometimes people are not intending to be abrasive, sometimes it just looks that way in words on a screen but if you heard the same person verbalise the exact same sentence it would be totally non offensive.

[Paper Hearts]

I think your a really nice guy On DGN and when i happen to get a chance to see you on the weekends.  =)

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Thank you too, you are extremely good, as well, one of the best people i've met from here, actually, which says a lot. -But there goes my self-loathing...you've destroyed it. Will I be able to pull Naricism off, well, it's going to be very new to me...

[JaneDead]

sometimes people are not intending to be abrasive, sometimes it just looks that way in words on a screen but if you heard the same person verbalise the exact same sentence it would be totally non offensive.

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yeah i have had that happen to me many times. recently actually-- and it ended a friendship. which is "all good" in it's own way i suppose.

and a few times i have been an outright bitch to people online and looking back that was NOT me at all. (i was possessed by evil pregnancy hormones at the time )

[Fierce Critter]

sometimes people are not intending to be abrasive, sometimes it just looks that way in words on a screen but if you heard the same person verbalise the exact same sentence it would be totally non offensive.

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Sometimes, the words chosen can only be construed one way - tone or no tone.

And I've experienced people who tend to use smilies in an attempt to couch something they fully intend to be offensive as, "oh, see - I put a smilie there. I didn't REALLY mean it that way. :wink "

Ugh. That's so transparent & annoying.

[Black Sunday9]

Sometimes, the words chosen can only be construed one way - tone or no tone.

And I've experienced people who tend to use smilies in an attempt to couch something they fully intend to be offensive as, "oh, see - I put a smilie there. I didn't REALLY mean it that way. :wink "

Ugh. That's so transparent & annoying.

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is that a reference to something in particular?

[Fierce Critter]

If you're asking if I'm referring directly to you, absolutely not. No way.

Just something I've seen abused in the past in many places.

[The_Dark]

I'm a lot more intense/in your face in real life.

[Marblez]

You tell me.

[LuluVox]

I think I probably come across a lot more standoffish in person, at least at first. Unless I'm smashed, in which case I'm quite bouncy and talkative.

[Shade Everdark]

I'm more optimistic, if you can call it that, on the Net than I am in real life.

[Goth Brooks]

on this board, i am closest to what i am to my friends IRL.. nice and sweet.

on other boards, i am a huge asshole, and closest to what I am to everyone else in the world.

that's why I say I am the nicest asshole anyone will ever meet.

[Paper Hearts]

I think I probably come across a lot more standoffish in person, at least at first. Unless I'm smashed, in which case I'm quite bouncy and talkative.

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You don't seem standoffish at all, you are very friendly.

[LuluVox]

Hehe, notice what I said about when I'm drunk!

Actually, I wasn't even that drunk at lcc the other night when we met... I guess I am kinda nice!

[Guest Megalicious]

Hehe, notice what I said about when I'm drunk!

Actually, I wasn't even that drunk at lcc the other night when we met... I guess I am kinda nice!

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YOU ARE NICE SILLY !!!!!!

[LuluVox]

Haha. I'm nice AND silly!

[Paper Hearts]

if she was nice to me, she must've been wasted...

[LuluVox]

if she was nice to me, she must've been wasted...

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Oh, stop. I'm nice to anyone who likes The Smiths.

Well, okay, there are some exceptions... but that's because they've given me plenty of other reasons not to care much for them.