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Post by lagatta on Sept 8, 2009 10:39:59 GMT
Yes, but not many people wear tartan trousers in Paris.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2009 17:47:50 GMT
Maybe he'll bring some of his friends to meet Kerouac!
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Post by nic on Sept 9, 2009 6:10:24 GMT
Well, since I tip the scales at one-seventh of a ton and almost never leave my house, it would be difficult to spot me in a café. But as for my persona being different, I would have no idea if it's different or not.
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 9, 2009 9:03:45 GMT
One-seventh of a ton, Nic? You mean that photo of you is a fake?
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 9, 2009 9:26:22 GMT
Nic stopped smoking, Baz. Those tartan trousers look terrible but I can just picture Jack running around like that with his favourite turtleneck!
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Post by Kimby on Sept 9, 2009 13:57:51 GMT
Do you pretty much talk or act the same in public as you do online or even different on other forums? My demeanor online is just how I am in 3D. Whatever that means. I don't have the opportunities IRL to talk about some of the topics discussed on these forums, so perhaps I am more outspoken here. On the other hand, I do sometimes rein myself in and avoid posting on certain threads and topics, even when I might have something to contribute, because it "wouldn't be seemly" for my Kimby persona. Whatever that means. Maybe I need to create a new screen name for off-color topics...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2009 14:11:35 GMT
On the other hand, I do sometimes rein myself in and avoid posting on certain threads and topics, even when I might have something to contribute, because it "wouldn't be seemly" for my Kimby persona. Whatever that means. I know what you mean. I am WAY more over the top then I come across on here. (I think some of you might understand what I mean, at least to some degree ). But I rein myself in over and over again. Quite a few different reasons for that. If I let myself go, you'll see the biggest bitch on earth, for one thing. I think you've all got used to the 'nice' me, and that suits me just fine. So, actually, I guess am different in real life to what I come across on here.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 9, 2009 17:01:21 GMT
I act in a similar fashion...I don't want to lose friends or get banned
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Post by rikita on Sept 9, 2009 23:20:09 GMT
i was told by some people that i am irl like online. not sure if that is true. some people were surprised though. i have gotten a lot more quiet online lately, compared to a few years ago. on the other hand, i guess i have become more quiet irl too... well depending on where and with who i am. i think irl it is sometimes more noticeable when i am being silly on purpose, while online people might take it more serious.
don't know if people could recognize me (if they don't know my photo or anything) - i have no idea, actually, how i come across here.
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Post by imec on Sept 10, 2009 1:17:58 GMT
So, lots of interesting responses to this and it seems most of us believe our online persona is similar to our irl persona. So as follow up...
Some of us post on one site, and some post on two or more. Is your online persona consistent across all of the sites on which you post?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2009 1:21:24 GMT
I don't have enough imagination to be anyone other than myself. I was a fish in a former life.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 10, 2009 3:39:13 GMT
So, lots of interesting responses to this and it seems most of us believe our online persona is similar to our irl persona. So as follow up... Some of us post on one site, and some post on two or more. Is your online persona consistent across all of the sites on which you post? Not me. There's some consistency in my posting on Anyport, LP's TT (I only visit certain branches) and the Tales of Asia forum but I'm quite different on Khmer440, a local gossip forum which is exclusively made up of local expats and the odd sextourist... That one can get quite bloody at times. The two German sites I post to are pure travel sites.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2009 3:41:22 GMT
Hm.
Do you know many of the people on Khmer440 in real life, and if so, does that mean you're more yourself there?
*sulks*
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Post by lola on Sept 10, 2009 3:57:45 GMT
We like the real, the original bixa as is.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 10, 2009 5:01:31 GMT
Hm. Do you know many of the people on Khmer440 in real life, and if so, does that mean you're more yourself there? *sulks* I do Bixa... I'm a lot ruder sometimes that's for sure! I know a couple of the regular posters who live there, maybe 10? I's a completely different kind of board, have you been peeking? ;D ;D ;D But I can assure you I am a civil person in real life, cross my heart and hope to die!
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2009 5:09:32 GMT
But I can assure you I am a civil person in real life, cross my heart and hope to die! That is so disappointing! ;D
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 5:21:19 GMT
hw,aside from your shocking taxi tales behavior,you're one of the least earratic people on here.Your even temper is refreshing. Does this mean we're in for some shocking surprise?
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 10, 2009 6:18:38 GMT
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Post by lola on Sept 10, 2009 14:27:25 GMT
"least erratic"
(Sounds like a challenge to shoot for "most erratic," which would be fun, too.)
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 15:41:54 GMT
I know I think twice before directing friends from real life to read these forums, so I must be conducting myself online in a way different from IRL.
More frank, probably, than I dare to be with people I know IRL.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 16:32:30 GMT
I have directed just one friend to look here once, and she didn't quite say that she was appalled (because she was looking mostly at my Mekong photo threads), but I understood the subtext.
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Post by spindrift on Sept 10, 2009 16:58:53 GMT
What is so appalling?
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Post by bazfaz on Sept 10, 2009 17:17:48 GMT
Possibly it was the photo of K2 (see the left hand column) compared with the reality.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 17:19:40 GMT
Actually, it was before I changed the picture.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2009 18:10:09 GMT
I direct everyone I can to this forum. What I have found, though, is that many people don't grasp the idea of a forum at all. To me it's astounding that anyone would prefer to use something like facebook, when there are forums available. Yes, I know that facebook can be for a group of intimates, but far more people have as many as 2,000 "friends". Come on!
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Post by spindrift on Sept 10, 2009 20:30:24 GMT
None of my friends can grasp the idea of forums. I'm sorry to say that some of them refuse to learn to use computers. One friend recently told me that even looking at a computer screen makes her feel ill . I find Facebook deadly dull. Perhaps most people seek mind-numbing trivia; something to pass the time without having to think at all.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 20:49:38 GMT
People I speak to about the Port act all interested and intrigued and then when The moment comes to actually browse or even lurk,they get all freaked out and anxious. I think I may have posted in a former life...I was anxious initially and then it just seemed perfectly natural and I feel my natural self online although like Deyana said earlier,I ,at times, have felt I needed to "reign it in". I know exactly what she means(t).
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Post by spindrift on Sept 10, 2009 21:01:39 GMT
Perhaps we're a bit ahead of the rest; after all, the internet hasn't been going that long
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Post by Kimby on Sept 10, 2009 21:07:45 GMT
Right, didn't Al Gore invent it in the seventies?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2009 21:09:48 GMT
I know that when the Minitel first started in France in 1983 and the first chat sites appeared, people would show them to their friends. "It's fun!" They would get them to choose a screen name (usually something dumb) and put them on a forum. There was usually a list of the people coming on line, so the minute the new screen name appeared, somebody already online would send a message like "Hello spindrift! Who are you?" This would create the most intense and instant panic that I have ever seen and most of them would hit the disconnect button instantly, as though they had just been seen stark naked by a crowd of people.
I think that is still the reaction of a lot of people on the internet for the first time -- it is like skinny dipping and discovering there are a lot of unknown surprise witnesses.
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