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How do you act in real life?

Arylett Charnoa

Arylett Charnoa

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Just something I was thinking about. Do you act differently than you do on the forums?

Me? Well, it's like I'm a completely different person. In real life, I'm really shy and quiet, and I don't like to look people in the eyes. I also always look really serious and angry and if someone I don't know talks to me, I'll answer them in this monotone voice even when I don't mean to. People think I'm really mean because of this or they think I'm just weird. I tend to feel more comfortable when talking to people on the internet, due to my crippling social anxiety, so I act waaay more uptight in real life.

And you?
 
You and everyone else :P

UM anyway, I uh... I kind of just do things. I don't really know what my personality is like to other people... you know how it is. Well, apparently I'm hilarious in real life. So... yeah. Uh, well I guess usually I'm doing something relatively funny. I usually spend sort of spend most of the time like cracking jokes or... I don't know, acting all weird. :\

And also a large portion of the time I spend talking in a... I don't know what to call it... "old gentleman" style voice? I'll be all, "Why, hello, young man. Do you have the time?" And... similar things. Yeah. That's usually what I do... whatever, I guess. Also I call people kids. As in, "Kids! Stop arguing!" Even if they're like... twenty-two. OH and I tend to rant a lot. And I talk too much. And uh... mostly I just kind of say and do funny things, I guess? Whatever.

Although if I don't know someone very well I'm usually rather shy about it. Which bothers me. :\ Or if said person is above me on the social ladder. (YES I KNOW I SHOULDN'T CARE I REALLY WISH I DIDN'T)
 
I'm quiet and a bit shy, but if absolutely necessary, I'll speak up. I can be outgoing on occasion, but I'm more talkative when with my closest friends. The interent works better for me because I'm able to think before I write so I sound like I know what I'm talking about.
 
I trip over my words a lot when I talk in real life, so I'm often afraid to say anything. When around really close friends, I'm usually pretty hyper and talkative though. I prefer typing to talking because I can avoid redundancy and grammatical mistakes more easily. I like seeing exactly what I'm saying. :3
 
I'm actually argumentative in real life. I am shy around stranger sometimes. I am loud, raucous, and a bit offensive when with friends. Why, I'm different in different sectors of the internet.
 
Zeta Reticuli said:
You and everyone else :P
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Well, actually, I'm ruder in real life. I'm much nicer online than I am in real life. Mainly due to me getting nervous and blurting out rude things and then not realizing that they are rude until it's too late. Online, I have more time to think about these things, I don't have the pressure of saying things right then and there.

Yes, I'm immensely sure that I have a social anxiety disorder, hmm.
 
I'm typically a bit shyer in real life than I am online, but I don't think I have a social anxiety disorder or anything. People who only know me a little bit IRL generally think that I'm quiet but polite.
 
Arylett Dawnsborough said:
Well, actually, I'm ruder in real life. XD I'm much nicer online than I am in real life. Mainly due to me getting nervous and blurting out rude things and then not realizing that they are rude until it's too late. Online, I have more time to think about these things, I don't have the pressure of saying things right then and there.
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Same here except when I speak without thinking I often make an idiot of myself and kick myself about it weeks later.
 
I guess how I generally act sort of depends on my mood and if I'm with other people. When I'm with friends I'm usually loud and weird and the type who will do weird shit in public just to laugh at the looks I get. When I'm around a lot of people I don't know and don't really see myself clicking with, I become really withdrawn and awkward. I don't often look people in the eyes.

I'm typically really fidgety; I'll take off things like watches and bracelets and play with them, I'll run my fingers through my hair a lot, I'll shake my legs while I'm sitting. It's worse if I'm nervous or anxious. I've actually gotten comments on this. D: People who see me like this (typically people who have classes with me where I'm not with any friends) usually get this impression that I'm a complete nutcase. Of course, people who see me with my friends think this too, only there it tends to lean more toward the "confident sort of awkward" weird, while by myself it's "really unconfident; might have some kind of disorder or something?" Hmm.

I'm either the freak who lays in the floor of public places and sings the Oscar Mayer Weiner song or that one kid in the corner who's always drawing, and people who are used to me acting one way might be a bit surprised to see the other side of me. (A lot of people also think I'm like this amazing genius with perfect grades. I'm not sure why; my grades are pretty average. :|)

I'm a bit ruder in real life because I'm generally surrounded by idiots; I can also be ruder on larger forums where idiots run rampant, but I try not to be here. Otherwise, well, I don't really know what my overall personality is like online, but I don't think I'm too different.
 
WHOAH uh Spaekle are you me? Only two years older? Yeah, okay, you must be. It's comforting to know that in two years I'll be lying on the floor of public places, singing the Oscar Meyer Weiner song. Actually, no it's not, because that's... not all that funny. MY sense of humor is classier.

(but seriously you do act a lot like me, how about we go out for lunch sometime okay?)
 
I'm also shy and rude when in public. but when I'm in my house, I'm loud and blurt out stuff and run around the house.
 
Quiet, mostly. And people seem to have the strange impression that I'm, like, a good listener and really nice and supportive... no, actually I just don't talk and I tell people whatever they need to hear so they'll shut up and go away. Don't have a lot of friends because I suck at staying in touch with people, but during the brief periods in which I have good friends all we ever really do is draw or play video games.

They also think I'm good at math. Hahahahahano math CRS for the win.
 
I think that's a very difficult question to answer. How any person acts at any given time is all relative to their situation, and "online" is merely one such situation. I doubt that, for people who frequent a variety of different social-interaction web sites, most people even behave differently from site to site, when they're interacting with different groups of people. Probably the ways that you interact with various online communities are more similar than the ways you interact with the various social circles you encounter in real life, but I would guess this is at least in part a result of the fact that you opt into internet social groups, whereas in real life you often don't have a choice.

However, if you think about it, you act many different ways based in the environment you're placed in. How you act around your parents is different than how you act around your friends or in a classroom full of people you hardly know. So should I be comparing my online interaction to interaction with my friends, or to people who are relative strangers? Even then, you're liable to act different ways depending on your status with that particular group of strangers, or your online status, if any. There's no consistent way that any person "acts" in all offline environments.

So, do I act differently online than I do in real life? Yes, but there's no one way that I "act" in real life anyway, so there's no real way to discuss it without being more specific, at least for me.

But I could probably sum it up by saying that I'm ten times more obnoxious in real life than I am at my most obnoxious online. Think like this post, but much, much worse.
 
I'm really quiet and shy around most people.

But when I'm around people I know, I act like I go on 4chan too much, or so I'm told. I.E.: "4chan is killing your brain" is often said to me.
 
Zeta Reticuli said:
WHOAH uh Spaekle are you me? Only two years older? Yeah, okay, you must be. It's comforting to know that in two years I'll be lying on the floor of public places, singing the Oscar Meyer Weiner song. Actually, no it's not, because that's... not all that funny. MY sense of humor is classier.

(but seriously you do act a lot like me, how about we go out for lunch sometime okay?)
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Haha, sure, you like Olive Garden? :p

That Oscar Mayer weiner thing was from when I was a hyper middle schooler with a dumb sense of humor on a night where me and some friends were feeling particularly rambunctious. It's pretty fun to look back on, but I consider it one of the dumbest things we've ever done, actually. Hahaha.

I have friends who fancy themselves /b/tards and who think I'm a /b/tard too because I know all the memes, when I really haven't been on any Chan in, like, forever. D:
 
I've never been on 4Chan, except for as a spectator (or as those internet types call them, "lurkers"). But I guess I'll start in about a year, huh?

ALSO my fidgeting will get worse, that's not a good sign. :( I thought it was getting better and all too.

Not only that, but you posted in the attractiveness thread that you thought you were ugly! So, in two years, I'll either have developed a huge inferiority complex, or have gotten run over by a steam roller or something. Oh nooooo!!
 
I'm an obnoxious teenage girl in real life. You'd probably think I didn't even know what a forum was let alone be on one about Pokemon. :P

I AM JUST AS ANNOYING IRL AS I AM HERE~
 
Well... I don't speak more than necessary, really... I'm quite shy among my friends, and generally a quiet person. Unless I get riled up for some reason, in which case I can talk to no end :3 Also, if I'm happy or peppy, I usually move in a quick and agile manner, doing spins instead of turns and almost tripping forward :P
 
I'm very shy when it comes to people I don't know. But when I get to know them, I act really hyper and happy and shit. Though I used to be very quiet, even around my friends.
 
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