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Temat: How different are people online and in real life:

A follow up from the how social are you discussion.

How different/similar are those you have met IRL to their online personas?warren whitmore edytował(a) ten post dnia 19.10.08 o godzinie 20:26
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We began here: http://www.goldenline.pl/forum/anglosphere/463194

We agreed that you are different.
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I thought I might have started a similar thread before.

Anyway, only a few of us were at the anglo meeting .....

So how about everyone else?
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Violetta P.:
We began here: http://www.goldenline.pl/forum/anglosphere/463194


I could start a further thread.

Are you showing any symptoms of Alzheimer's?warren whitmore edytował(a) ten post dnia 19.10.08 o godzinie 20:35
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Good question Warren. I believe a vast percentage of people here have alter egos. One in real life and another online. Someone who professes to be a Managing Director to love opera,fine wine,fluent in twenty different languages including Urdu and Swahili,while part time coaching the local soccer club is more likely to be a beer swilling,high school dropout. I have never met anyone online face to face to prove my theory but I dont believe its far from the truth in some cases. Granted their are many "what you see is what you get" but I believe the majority have touched up their resumes their outgoing online personas because you can be anything behind a screen.
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I`ve met Ilter and I had the best impressions possible.

Guy C. is a nice and decent man and he seems the same online.

One person (not active on Anglo) showed to be an alcoholic. I was shocked!

And you, Warren, were the biggest surprise! I still remember your warm smile:)
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Benjamin Horler:
Good question Warren. I believe a vast percentage of people here have alter egos. One in real life and another online. Someone who professes to be a Managing Director to love opera,fine wine,fluent in twenty different languages including Urdu and Swahili,while part time coaching the local soccer club is more likely to be a beer swilling,high school dropout. I have never met anyone online face to face to prove my theory but I dont believe its far from the truth in some cases. Granted their are many "what you see is what you get" but I believe the majority have touched up their resumes their outgoing online personas because you can be anything

I doubt this is true for most on GL.

Generally speaking on most discussion forums usernames are employed, and in that case we can be whoever we want to be.

But not this one.
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Warren turned out to be a surprisingly warm person, but we never managed to patch up our broken relations, and maybe we're just better off this way.
Keith, erm, I loved him during our first and second meetings.
Steve Jones - the life and soul of any party, and I enjoy talking to him and sharing ideas with him. To have him as a friend is a privilege.
Adam - I sometimes have trouble following his train of thought, but like I said before, he's got quite a few faces ready to present to the world, some of which are quite unexpectedly intriguing.
Violetta and Ilter are what they are on line, great company. I hope I manage to take Violetta out for coffees or to buy boots and scarves soon!
I've never met Dave Andrew in person, but would sure love to, as we seem to have a similar outlook on many things in life, good and bad.
I am strongly biased in favor of Steve H. though :)
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Temat: How different are people online and in real life:

I've met more or less the same people as you.

And they're more or less the same IRL as they are online.
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Tatiana S.:
I am strongly biased in favor of Steve H. though :)
No wonder:)
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Tatiana You have a way with words. you could sell sand to the Arabs and snow to the Eskimos:) I tried to read between the lines of what you wrote!Benjamin Horler edytował(a) ten post dnia 19.10.08 o godzinie 21:11
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Magdalena Natalia Wiśniowska

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Temat: How different are people online and in real life:

O.k.

This is a story of my life.
I met A LOT of people whom I talked to online. None of them lied about their employment, age or marital status. They have mostly lied (if ever) about their appearance and general characteristics including personality.
I never met a junky, an alcoholic or a psycho. These were mostly just some minor personality issues like trying to be too funny/talkative/interesting, which is a sign of low self-confidence. I guess I am extremely cautious when "choosing" whether or not to meet up for a coffee, if something is "not right" in their online appearance I can predict the meeting will be a disaster or that I will meet a totally different personality.
But this is a story of people who are absolutely anonymous. These are just discussion boards, ICQ, GG talks.

Goldenline is way different. First of all, you can't be anonymous due to the requirement of giving name so there is always a chance someone knows you here and can tell when you lie. Second of all, you show a picture of yourself, which is another thing that is pro "not so different" in IRL - of course, there are those fakers, those Photoshop upgraded images but that's just a small percentage.
+ there is also a small percentage of those who do not wish to be recognized at all (no picture, just the first name) so these definitely are less likely to be considered "true".

I cannot remember the study but I have read that people stopped to lie about themselves online comparing to what they did in the beginning of the Internet because people become less and less unreal while the internet progresses (remember about skype, etc. - how can you be different there?). Look how many people couple over the Internet. I know so many marriages who started up by talking online.. I think Internet seves so many different roles now that people do trust what they see here.
And GL is a good example.Magdalena Natalia Wiśniowska edytował(a) ten post dnia 19.10.08 o godzinie 21:16
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warren whitmore:
I've met more or less the same people as you.

And they're more or less the same IRL as they are online.
Adam isn't, not completely. And I also think Keith isn't either. And, to me at least, you aren't.
And I am more quiet and withdrawn IRL than online.
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Magdalena Natalia Wiśniowska:
I cannot remember the study but I have read that people stopped to lie about themselves online comparing to what they did in the beginning of the Internet because people become less and less unreal while the internet progresses (remember about skype, etc. - how can you be different there?). Look how many people couple over the Internet. I know so many marriages who started up by talking online.. I think Internet seves so many different roles now that people do trust what they see here.
And GL is a good example.

I'd say we all have a far better chance of meeting people we have something in common with online than IRL.
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According to you Tatiana,Steve Violet and Ilter are the same in real life whereas Adam,Keith and Warren are not. That makes it 3 for and 3 against. About right I guess
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Magda, I notice you are not a member of Aardvark English.

Threads such as these will give you fresh insight into the brave new world we are creating for ourselves:

http://www.goldenline.pl/forum/aardvark-english/408748
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Tatiana S.:
...I am more quiet and withdrawn IRL than online.
That's correct. Somehow I thought you were a talkative person.
And I didn't know that Adam is talkative :)
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Magdalena Natalia Wiśniowska

Magdalena Natalia Wiśniowska Recruitment Manager
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Temat: How different are people online and in real life:

warren whitmore:
Magda, I notice you are not a member of Aardvark English.

Threads such as these will give you fresh insight into the brave new world we are creating for ourselves:

http://www.goldenline.pl/forum/aardvark-english/408748

thanks, warren.

you made my day :-D
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Temat: How different are people online and in real life:

I don't think they're different in real life. The point is that when we meet them in RL they turn out to be different from our notion of them.
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Good point.
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