How you are different IRL vs. here/Online? ? ?

version

Well-known member
I think I am nicer IRL because you see the vulnerable human reacting, the very fact of your physical presence requires certain forms of attention and acknowledgment , manners basically … you can forget all that here

I think that changes in an argument though. If someone's being rude to you online, it's still just text. If they're actually shouting in your face and insulting you and trying to wind you up then it's much more real.
 

luka

Well-known member
I think that changes in an argument though. If someone's being rude to you online, it's still just text. If they're actually shouting in your face and insulting you and trying to wind you up then it's much more real.
That doesnt happen to me and shiels because we are hardmen
 

sufi

lala
offline introvert / online extrovert is standard?

... so the internet has brought all the weirdos out of their closets and given them glow up or whatever
 

version

Well-known member
I think I'm less silly offline, less likely to toss stupid jokes into a conversation, particularly the way we do on here when you get people going back and forth quite quickly.
 

GhostofKinski

Well-known member
I think there is no comparison online or irl.
Just the anonymity of being online, I’ve seen it in kids shows with my Wean (when she was younger) there was this experiment where a group of pre-teens watched a video on big screen of this girl playing ukulele and singing.
She was a pro but for the lesson made a video singing off key, playing out of tune.
The kids were brutal with thier criticism.
Next group of kids she did the exact same thing but live. Even these youngsters were very supportive. They’d say things like “you are so brave to perform live” & “Keep at it, practice a bit more”
IRL people use/go off of so many social ques.

I used to listen to sports radio a lot.
In NY the Yankees are the senior team most championships, bigger fan base. But, on the call in shows you’d hear far more callers talking about the Mets. Same goes for football, American, not that European fag football….SEE! I’m doing it right now.
The Giants won more, bigger fan base. Call ins majority Jets fans.
The anonymity thrives on negativity.
Or vice versa.
 
there was a rave forum I posted on from I was about 16/17. Techno club in Belfast, was an interesting community. Formative for me but brought out this really trolling cynical side to me, I suppose it’s very typical of teenage boys on the internet, you can take out your aggression and resentments with little consequence, time to think through witty put downs, try things on and that
 

version

Well-known member
How much is performance and how much is just what you fall into online? If someone comes off as disinterested, are they performing it or is something about the internet genuinely making them disinterested?
 

line b

Well-known member
@line b says everyone he's met irl that we both know online's been completely normal.
Yes and no. Sus is normal but you do get the sense that he's always intently observing and taking notes. MVUENT is normal albeit a bit quiet, maybe tense. Luke is normal but is oddly high octane, slight wild card. Woops in sort of an opposite way comes off as maybe a bit quirky at first but more normal as time passes. KC also a bit quiet and tense at first but very normal after a second. Sufi and Stan are great normal guys start to finish, no critiques at all complete delights. But ya everyone is normal for the most part, would meet them all again
 

mvuent

Void Dweller
Yes and no. Sus is normal but you do get the sense that he's always intently observing and taking notes. MVUENT is normal albeit a bit quiet, maybe tense. Luke is normal but is oddly high octane, slight wild card. Woops in sort of an opposite way comes off as maybe a bit quirky at first but more normal as time passes. KC also a bit quiet and tense at first but very normal after a second. Sufi and Stan are great normal guys start to finish, no critiques at all complete delights. But ya everyone is normal for the most part, would meet them all again
you should put up a normalcy leaderboard in your apartment and update it after every irl meeting like it's the pga masters
 

woops

is not like other people
no, that's fine. i am very normal or at least hold myself in a normal esteem.i assumed the norm McDonald thread was about me.
 

wektor

Well-known member
I think the longer you've been meeting people from the internet irl the inline both sides of online/irl are
asymmetries of such kind give me a bit of an ick, especially if lacking on the irl part
best of my friends do present a different modality but the persona stays more or less the same
obviously I prefer shooting shit with them irl, but online speak can be as outwardly and expressive as a 5am conversation at times
 

shakahislop

Well-known member
version was pretty normal at school i think - we didn't know each other well coz he was the year below me but he seemed normal. i remember he had drawn guns n roses logos all over his pencil case but that is pretty normal
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I sometimes wonder if any of my irl normie (relatively) friends read my posts on here would they be shocked? Perhaps they'd chastise me for some of my more extreme right wing posts.
 

sufi

lala
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kid charlemagne

Well-known member
i cant really explain it... it was one of the first times i met an online person, but the first time i met line b, for the first 5 min, i wasnt 100 percent it was actually rhe person i met online.... i dont know
 
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