Are you someone totally different on Yahoo! Answers than compared to the "you" in "real" life?
Do you have an internet persona? Is there someone you turn into (kinda like the Hulk) when you get online? Do you make up some character online that isn't the real you to escape real life? Do you decorate your 360 page with fake pictures of other people because that's who you would like to be?
Is the "real" you the person you are on the internet, because it's easier to be the "real" you when you're not seeing someone face to face (come on you can tell the truth I can't see you)? Is it to hard to be the "real" you in reality?
Are you the same online as your are in "real" life?
I personally am the real me online (those are even my real pictures on my 360 page, amazing I know), because I don't have the time to think up someone else or try and be someone else.
2007-11-29 07:46:56 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I think I'm more real on the Internet, ................if that is even possible??
My personality traits are possibly "stronger" (for lack of a better word) because of the freedom anonymity allows me.
(I.E.) I am certainly very out spoken out in the "real world" shall we say, but even more so here in Y.A., as I have the ability to speak openly without the concern of offending; say a co-worker or a family member.
Further; I am a very silly and whimsical person, that part of my personality is exactly the same here in YA as it is anywhere else, I have absolutely NO shame in being a goofball, and I think I state something about that on my 360; something about how I believe laughter and humor will save you from yourself and your enemies.
My Y.A. name is even a phonic rendering of my actual name...and my 360 name likewise is combination of nicknames I've been given by family and friends...so yes, I'd have to say I represent myself honestly.......although I don't have any issues with user's who do not, I mean how would we ever know............although it does make you wonder a bit ??
I'm not really good at transferring pics. I only have two, one of a beautiful piece of property in GA that my brother owns, and one of me and my girlfriends. I'd like to learn how to post pics.......but I'll have to get my kid to do that for me! Just like I did the other ones. LOL
Good Question
2007-12-02 14:44:16 · answer #1 · answered by mchlmybelle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question.
The internet enables a more positive depiction of our real selves. We can think with a clarity and speak with a candour not possible in reality.
With the dawn of streaming video websites essentially anythign we desire can be delivered to us. The internet is a world built around our needs. It is simultaneously a shield from reality and a prison from it.
Everyone has taken the blue pill.
Typing away you are stuck in The Matrix.
All the best
2007-11-29 08:03:24 · answer #2 · answered by James J Turner esq 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I know people who are able to talk far more confidently online than if they were to meet people face to face. I also know people who pretend to be someone else because they're bored and make up stories because they know that they're never going to meet the person. I expect some people do make whole new personna's for themselves on the internet but that seems pretty obvious.
2007-11-29 07:59:09 · answer #3 · answered by Savannah 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am exactly the same on line, as I am in real life. And the picture I use as an avatar, is really me......not exactly recent, but still me as I looked about 15 years ago! *sm*
2007-12-02 15:08:39 · answer #4 · answered by LadyZania 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I continuously choose the vowel 'i', to the others. i'm a touch extraordinary like that yet yeah - It makes the call sound better unique. i imagine Jacoby jogs my memory better of a dogs's call. xD yet yeah, especially call:)
2016-10-25 04:55:00 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My avatar fits me. Black guy with a scuba mask, 2 down syndrome kids, at a racetrack. Life is good
2007-11-29 08:14:18 · answer #6 · answered by andrew s 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no....why should i be? im myself always i have no need to hide behind facades, if anything i may be more slightly confident on the computer but little else.
no iam myself and im consistant with the views and opinions i express.
2007-11-29 08:10:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm me, these are my pictures and my nickname is Pip. And I don't pretend to be anyone else.
2007-11-29 07:54:58 · answer #8 · answered by pip 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my brain really does hurt.
2007-11-29 07:54:56 · answer #9 · answered by my brain hurts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my name is abbie but i think im a molly
2007-11-29 07:55:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋