Originally Posted by
Dark Muse
One of the biggest things with me on the Internet, is I often like to create a certain aura of mystery about myself. I do like being something of an unknown. I do not care much for mundane chit chat and on the forums I belong to I usually avoid the more social aspects of it. As for example here on lit net, I really don't post in the General discussion threads but once in a blue moon if some topic particularly catches my eye. I stick mainly to the threads that deal with literature.
And when people ask me basic questions about my name, age, location, and such, I usually will give evasive answers, and not because I am self-conscious or paranoid about people knowing these things, but because these sort of details do not interest me. I do not feel like knowing these things tells anyone anything about me.
Some people prefer to know the face behind the name, and I myself enjoy being a disembodied presence online, nor do I feel any real curiosity or need to know what the people whom I speak to look like.
I am more interested in the intellectual engagement than in the physicality of the person.