Cyberspace identities

[aliengirl]

I don't think there's any mystery to being different on the forum. In the real we are different to lots of different people such as between our parents and our friends. We all act various roles each day according to who we are playing at the time - parent, boss, employee, service user, customer, activist, clown etc.

I know that some people really create a cyberspace persona but I don't think it is different from normal human behavior. As Paulclem said each of us play different roles in our daily lives. It is easier to realize this if you are in the teaching profession.Perhaps most people find it easier to adopt a drastically different personality on the internet because doing so in real life would be embarrassing or it would need too much explanation.

Personally I'm less hostile or inclined to get into an argument on the internet. In "real" life my family and friends acknowledge me as a passionate speaker on various social issues. But here I mostly keep to threads that interest me or which could contribute to my literary knowledge. In other words, I use this space to talk to like-minded people. Also as the posts come in written form there is more time to read and reflect. So my responses are more carefully phrased and moderated than they may be in face to face talk.

[Mutatis-Mutandis]

Yeeeeehes, Wikipedia is a great help.



You bet it is. Sorry to disappoint you. Just look in the P&P thread. The comments in the Emma-thread have been deleted already.

Well, he's banned now. I don't even know what he was talking about.

Edit: Unfortunately, he's back under the ever creative name of "Twitter."

I don't think there's any mystery to being different on the forum. In the real we are different to lots of different people such as between our parents and our friends. We all act various roles each day according to who we are playing at the time - parent, boss, employee, service user, customer, activitst, clown etc.

I myself try to be charming, urbane, well informed and knowledgeable here. It is easy with Wikipedia at my fingertips and with many miles between me and you people on the forum who may want to slap me.

That's a good point. We all act different roles for different people. I think the role we act on the Internet can be more severe, though.

[kiki1982]

Well, he's banned now. I don't even know what he was talking about.

Edit: Unfortunately, he's back under the ever creative name of "Twitter."


That's a good point. We all act different roles for different people. I think the role we act on the Internet can be more severe, though.

Nor did I . And he has been back briefly uder jmj10 or something, but I gather those comments have been deleted as well, in the mean time.

I think indeed, the possibility of assuming a completely different identity on the net is easier than in real life.

[Dark Muse]

So . . . doesn't that picture you posted of yourself in your profile kind o clash with all this?i.

There is an exception to every rule, and yes I can be self-contradictory at times. Sometimes the whim does come upon me to diverge from my usual preferences and intentions.

It all depends upon my mood.

[Paulclem]

Well, he's banned now. I don't even know what he was talking about.

Edit: Unfortunately, he's back under the ever creative name of "Twitter."

We should decide on a name for him instead of him exhausting his creativity like this. He could focus upon coherency instead then.

[JuniperWoolf]

A Jane Austen cyber bully. That. Is hilarious.

[mona amon]

I think, yes, people can take on other identities. Not always in a bad way.

...[cut]...I personally also have another identity.

What, here on Litnet???

A Jane Austen cyber bully. That. Is hilarious.

It was pretty funny, come to think of it. Jane Austen would have approved.

As for creating a persona on the internet that's different from your real life one - I'd love to project myself as this really cool, witty person, but soon discovered it wasn't as easy as it looks.