Does your online personality reflect who you are IRL.

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Re: Does your online personality reflect who you are IRL.

@Sentry

Isn’t online real life? Is the internet a matrix where time doesn’t exist?

Online you can be anyone you want. You have no face but you have multiple personas. Your deepest thoughts, feelings & expressions are free for all to read and debate. I think the saddest part of all of it is the reality that what people do online is who they really are and in “the real world” they hide in their shell to afraid to express their inner thoughts.

@Mezhgan

You know, I’ve always thought this as well. I’ve heard people comment that social media “makes” people catty and malicious because it gives them anonymity and absolves them of responsibility but I don’t believe that is accurate. I think that the anonymity simply allows people to be who they really are. I find it extremely difficult to believe that people who make vicious, catty comments online are any different in real life. The only difference is that they hide their cattiness in real life.

Both of you make interesting points.

So it is a way to come out of one’s shell and express what they truly feel without consequences and/or the insulting nature is already a part of one’s personality. Though, this aspect of one’s personality, is suppressed for the sake of society as Ghost also mentioned. I also think most of these people who are internet warriors and have mastered the art of online insults, would get their faces punched in on a daily basis if they talked like that IRL.