On-line personality

[artisticsolution]

I am the same person online as I am in my head. Those who know me can attest to that..but very few know me that well, because I am an introvert. (I genuinely like people, but I prefer to be alone...if I am around too many people I get sensory overload. Just saying because too many people mistake introverts for being people who have social problems and do not like other people...That is not always the case...I think some of us just happen to be more discerning and thoughtful about who we befriend).

My own mother doesn't know me as well as all of you here do...lol...but then she is an extreme extrovert and dominates the calm beauty of silence.

On the internet, you don't have to read drivel that drones on and on, robbing you of any creative thought you wish to pursue. You can look away, and read people who have the most exciting thoughts EVER!

Philosophy now has been a blessing (sorry for the religious reference you atheists out there...lol). Believe it or not... this place has been my sanity.

[Walker]

I am the same person online as I am in my head. Those who know me can attest to that..but very few know me that well, because I am an introvert. (I genuinely like people, but I prefer to be alone...if I am around too many people I get sensory overload. Just saying because too many people mistake introverts for being people who have social problems and do not like other people...That is not always the case...I think some of us just happen to be more discerning and thoughtful about who we befriend).

My own mother doesn't know me as well as all of you here do...lol...but then she is an extreme extrovert and dominates the calm beauty of silence.

On the internet, you don't have to read drivel that drones on and on, robbing you of any creative thought you wish to pursue. You can look away, and read people who have the most exciting thoughts EVER!

Philosophy now has been a blessing (sorry for the religious reference you atheists out there...lol). Believe it or not... this place has been my sanity.

“I shall endeavor to persevere."

It’s not everyday you get to read this sentence:

“… shouting SweePee's name, and shaking a homemade sign that read ‘SweePee Rambo for President 2016.’”

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(Is the above the sort of thing that you mean by drivel, is the below drivel, or if the humor and thoughts don’t measure up to the situation, both drivel?)

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You become what you love, what you fear, or what you hate.

What determines which?

The dividing line between what you must do
And what others must have you do
Determines which.

This obviously has individual, tribal, and societal implications.

[duszek]

On a forum like this one we express our personality by our writing style.

I have something in common with Bill Wiltrack: we both like clear statements and avoid loquacity.

Don´t you think ?

And yet nobody would mix us up, because of the content I suppose.

[Walker]

I think I hear sensitivity and therefore, intelligence.

Epistemologically speaking, this hearing is a recognition.

Hearing can also be a new discovery.

[Skip]

What I miss most, on line, is humour.

[Dalek Prime]

What I miss most, on line, is humour.

Whaaat! Where did I go wrong?

[Skip]

You are one little voice in the wilderness - appreciated, but oh-so-rarely heard!

[duszek]

We perceive an on-line personality like a blind person would perceive someone in real life.

But we can´t hear the tone of the voice, we can only imagine it when we read the posts.

[Harbal]

I can't even imagine pretending to be someone I'm not.

And I'm thankful for that, Lacewing, you're lovely just the way you are. Reading the posts so far it seems that everyone is claiming to be more or less themselves on-line, but then they would say that, wouldn't they? I'm sure in most cases it's true, albeit that some of us maybe present a slightly exaggerated version of our normal selves.
As our presence here is represented solely as text on a screen and is our only source of information about each other, would it be fair to say that we are just a group of interacting minds? Maybe what we are in our own physical world is irrelevant as far as what we do here is concerned, but then our minds are shaped by our experience in that world so maybe not, I don't know. It can all get very metaphysical if you spend much time thinking about it.

[Skip]

Most of us are probably braver, and almost certainly more frank, than we would be in walking life.
Not only can you not punch me in the [artistic masterpiece] nose; I can't even see you squint or your lower lip tremble. I suspect a lot of us lardasses come on as hard-ass, just because it's so easy.
(Except, of course, Henry Quirk, who is a 110% genuine, original whatever he says.)

[Harbal]

(Except, of course, Henry Quirk, who is a 110% genuine, original whatever he says.)

That's frightening.

[henry quirk]

Hey, I'm nuthin' but sweetness and light, so: screw you.

[Skip]

I ain't sceert ov um!

[henry quirk]

Wouldn't work anyway...ovum don't get sceert.

That's why you gotta wear a rubber.

[Dalek Prime]

Wouldn't work anyway...ovum don't get sceert.

That's why you gotta wear a rubber.

I built a fence around the 'gulf of Mexico'.