[fiddler]

I ask this question, because despite my efforts to be as "real" as I can online, I constantly find myself posting things that I'd probably never say in real life. I'm a really shy guy in person, and I've bene described more than once as being "hard to approach", "keeps to myself", so on so forth.. I got to thinking: maybe I'm trying to compensate? Trying to be someone I could never be in real life?

Then again, I guess I've always found it much easier to put my thoughts down on paper (or to type them out) than to verbalize them. Actually I downright suck at talking.

Maybe it's something about the nature of headphones that attracts shy people like me.

 

[usc goose]

i definitely cuss more in real life. and maybe my histrionics come across more clearly in person. but otherwise i think i'm about the same as i am on here.

 

[bangraman]

The serial upgrader/sidegrader geek presented at Head-Fi (complete with 4,000+ posts) is indeed the real me. I'm quite a sociable Geek, but a Geek I am. Of course having Internet access from wherever I may be, being a gearhead, having an opinion on everything and being a quick typer are factors in racking up such a post count but fundamentally speaking my outer Geek is at peace with my inner Geek and both never resist a chance to speak out.

 

[00940]

well, I tend to write quicker than I think when I'm online while I'm pretty cautious about what I say in real life.

There's of course the language barrier. It's often hard to be ironic without being unknowingly harsh. So I try to post less aggressively than I'd speak or would write on a french board.

 

[mrPeabody]

i look much better on here...

 

[Trawlerman]

I'm much better behaved on here

I definitely swear more than I do here. Plus I smell worse in person

Oh and I can't tell my jokes on here either.

You'll have to take me as you find me. I make no apologies for being a Yorkshireman

 

[spaceman]

What you see is what you get from me. Except, however, for my avatar.

Yes, I do swear more in real-time, but at least here, I can pick my nose, fart, etc while I'm typing and no is the wiser.

 

[Oddball]

I'm more shy in real life. If I say a bunch of Head-Fiers in real life standing around talking about equipment, I'd probably just ignore them, not because I'm rude, but because I'm insanely shy. I probably have some freaky social disorder. I even get nervous about sending emails to people I don't know. I wouldn't get into random conversations about headphones or have the confidence to recommend gear in real life. But I think my online self is a lot like my real self...I try to avoid controversy.

 

[strohmie]

I have a dry sense of humor that doesn't come off especially clearly typed out, so I generally don't bother. And yea, definitely more cursing in real life.

 

[Bill Ward]

This is the only place I've ever posted, and I think I'm more tentative, less confrontational and much blander than I am in person. Probably I feel new, so I don't want to offend anybody or be a nuisance. What's that line from Eliot . .

There will be tiime . . . to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.

Anybody ever read Goffman's "Presentation of Self in Everyday Life?"

BW

 

[Music Fanatic]

The real proof of the pudding comes when we meet at a headphone meet -- can we identify each other from our online personas only?

 

[rickcr42]

I am both nicer and at the same time more menacing in real life

i give people a fair shot but if they p*ss me off "in the flesh"

[size=medium]WHAMMO !!!!!!![/size]

 

[D-EJ915]

Umm...I'm like this, yeah...I generally talk a LOT, even though...yeah...haha

. Everybody thinks I'm funny though...I dunno...haha

I'd say that it's a pretty good representation in all.

 

[Duncan]

I'm quieter in real life...

...Thats what comes of being anti-social, and wearing headphones!

 

[eyeteeth]

Quote:

Originally posted by Trawlerman I can't tell my jokes on here either.

I've given up on that as well for the most part. It doesn't translate well. PC types use billy clubs on me.