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View Poll Results: How similar is your real-life personality to your online personality?
The real me crouches in a corner of my mind while I'm online, there's no similarity! 0 0%
I allow a bit of my real personality to show through, but not too much. 1 2.63%
50/50. Partly me, partly not me. 6 15.79%
What you see is what you get...mostly. I don't show a few aspects of my personality. 15 39.47%
Forum me = Real life me (as much as is possible through an impersonal form of communication) 16 42.11%
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Old November 14th, 2005, 05:37 AM
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Default Re: OT Poll How much are you like your forum persona?

Well, I have no idea of how to describe my personality (online and offline), so I guess that says something about me.

I feel I can express myself more freely online, not limited by unspoken conventions or expectations (not that I ignore the rules, mind you) that I have to deal with in RL. There, I often find it's a struggle to express myself properly, and simply to be. Sometimes I feel like who I am offline is not necessarily who I want to be, but more the person people expect me to be.

Online, I feel I can be myself more than I can be in real life. I prefer the personage of "Strategia" more than who I really am (but don't go around thinking I'm some kind of freaked-up sociophobe), simply because I can be who I really want to be.

I prefer the forums to talking to someone face to face. Not that I don't like a good conversation, but I just like the idea of being able to express myself without it having consequences for me in real life.

I haven't voted. If I were to cast a vote, the most likely approximation would be the top option, but "Online I am who I really am, offline I'm not" would be more accurate.
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Old November 14th, 2005, 12:42 PM
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Default Re: OT Poll How much are you like your forum persona?

I believe my "online personality" is part of me and so I am compleatly me online (makes a nice circle huh ). I may type different, but that's mostly because I'm a horrible typer. Other than that, if you put me in a room with all of you I would be peretty much the same as I am here.
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Old November 14th, 2005, 03:43 PM
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I'd like to thing that I act the same way online as I do in RL.
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