Life personas. On and off the internet.

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    Personas. We all have them by having usernames, but that's just a name! Do you develop a life for your personas online? Do you have a persona offline? I don't want to say alter ego, since those are real and people have that... but kind of like an alter ego of yourself. Do you create new identities and develop a life for it? An example would be Hiiro's recent blog, where he's creatively developing a life for his online username, Hiiro, and a story for it. Another one would be Nicki Minaj & Roman, Janelle Monae & Cindy Mayweather, etc.

    I'm slowly trying to separate Patchisou Yutohru from Nick and make them two completely different things. I'm going to indulge into a fantasy world where I hope my creative drive will spark and get back into creative writing and character development for something I plan on doing in the future, and maybe a few online experiences and diving back into the world of role playing as well! This will start being reflected on my profile (as it has already), blogs, and a few of my posts in things like the DCC, etc.

    As for offline, I don't have any personas offline, but I do tend to have a different personality from how I am normally than how I am mad or angry or upset, but I think that's more normal than anything, so I don't know why I noted that... oh well! I already typed it, and it would be a waste of the time I used to type it to delete it, so I'm putting it out there.

    What about you? Is your online persona an alter ego of the sort of your true self? Do you have any personas offline?
     
    What you see online from me is what you'd get in person, however I'm a lot more shy in person. Just give it time and crack the shell and you'd say "Yeah, that's definitely Sydian."
     
    Patchisou Yutohru said:
    An example would be Hiiro's recent blog, where he's creatively developing a life for his online username, Hiiro, and a story for it.
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    Anytime before this, I would have said that Hiiro is me, an alter ego of myself online. As of recently, Hiiro is now a different persona from Shivi (myself). While still sharing similar characteristics with me between personality, he's become more of a fictional being; a person different from who I am offline. Caught up in a story of his own, he takes on the role of teenage guy, Skylar Young Evans - your average teenager, but with a whole lot more inside of him.

    I never intended to give Hiiro an alternate persona from myself, but the idea just struck upon me and I decided to get creative with it. I myself want to indulge on the idea and bring it out more clearly on here. Through my Profile, Blogs, and posts about myself, I want to bring out Hiiro's new persona more, but still let people know who I am as a member.

    Offline, I don't really have any different personas. I am who I am. I may not be as outgoing as I am online, but when I warm up to someone I am just about the same as you know me here. Tuning into my creative gears with Hiiro's developing story though, it really gets me into my character and what twists and turns they endure along the way.
     
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    What you see is what you get, fellas :3
     
    Who I am online is just the more condensed boring version of me then in real life. Offline I'm a lot more fun and interesting. It's just when I'm online I draw blanks. I lose track of thought or I just don't know what to say sometimes. Offline I feed off of face to face conversation. It's the facial expressions and gestures that makes a conversation inviting and online you only get the words. So I loose that interesting connection part online which in turn I think makes me sound horribly boring.

    As for my offline life I'm just myself 24/7. Opposite of I'm sure everyone else I'm way more outgoing and adventurous offline. I'm more likely to go and strike up a conversation with someone I don't know in real life then online. I always do things the wrong way. D:

    So, no online/offline personas for me. Ayselipera is Mallory/Mallory is Ayselipera.
     
    I'm a bit shier offline (though probably wouldn't be if you found me in the midst of a Pokémon discussion like you do here) but otherwise, nah, I'm pretty much exactly the same.

    :( Having multiple personae and personalities to keep track of just sounds really confusing and I don't like acting so I wouldn't want to try to play a part every time I signed online. To be honest, I think it's kind of weird, especially if it's not something you did from the start. (ie, you pretend to be a little different when you join somewhere, or first start using the internet, and for the sake of convenience/safety, you keep up with the image). I dunno, to each his own but it's definitely not for me.

    I don't mind if people have original characters or whatever and user their names as usernames but looking at the "you" online and the you offline and seeing totally different people... I just don't get it. o_O
     
    I have to online personalities. I have Zappyspiker and I have Zcyler. They are technically the two sides of me online that is the whole of me Offline. Zappy is more based on the Pokemon/ Anime/Manga side of my life since it mainly functions on Pokemon Forums and such.
    Zcyler is based on all my other interests like per say when I Vlog on youtube.

    I technically act the same as I do on the net. Afterall the way way you treat people on the net are no different to the way you treat the people in the outside world. We're all people.
    I just don't always show it when I 'm on the internet
     
    My online persona is generally two degrees more cynical and sarcastic than RL me, not to mention a bit more outgoing. XD

    Also, Timbjerr is fairly conservative politically while RL Tommy is a conservative leaning moderate. Other than that, we're the same. :P

    Also, Timbjerr is currently a girl, while RL Tommy is a manly man person. XD
     
    I never try to act like a different person from I am. Sounds like too much work. XD The only difference is that I'm probably a bit more shy in real life, and that's just because I, like most I'm sure, would be less willing to jump into a random conversation in real life than I would be online.

    Although, just because it's a funny story, years ago I used to play an MMO where my character was (accidentally) made a guy. It ended being a mess where some of my friends on the game knew that I was indeed a girl and others thought I was a guy. XD
     
    I don't find myself to be any different. I'm extremely shy to people I barely know in real life, though. Also, I do occasionally have odd spasmodic moments in real life, but I guess you can say that they are caused by boredom.
     
    I'm not exactly a different person online and offline, but online I'm boring and offline I'm quite shy and boring - how sad...
    I'm only a little asocial online, but I cross the boundary to almost being anti-social offline.
    All this gives people the idea that I'm not interesting and I suck, further helping me stay friendless and being sad about it, lol.

    Actually, even if I'm more conserved in real life, if you can pretty much get very close to me and make me comfortable enough to open myself up, I'm very different - and that effect will be much stronger in real life, as I can only express my true self in the internet up to a specific level. I've shocked people before this way.
     
    Well... online I'm more.. hyper. XD; Though in real life, I can be just as hyper when I know someone well enough to act ... silly around them. XD; I'm also quite shy around someone when I first meet them, both irl and online. I mean I was on Skype with a few people here before, and I couldn't say hi or anything. XD; I don't like to speak first irl, and online (unless I feel comfortable enough to start a convo :D). I always stay quiet unless spoken to irl.. and online. Ummm, yeah, I guess you could say I am somewhat the same online as I am irl. Lol. :3
     
    I wouldn't say my presence online is an alter ego of myself, because everything I say and do is originally from my own characteristics.
    While it's true that I differ slightly offline, it's mostly because I don't feel as comfortable saying or doing things as I do typing them, and I'm sure others can relate to this too. Things can be a lot easier.

    To go a bit closer, I could say that my "online self" is a more filtered version.
    Offline my speech is erratic and I'm usually nervous so I don't often invite conversation or enjoy it.
    Online, however, my lucidity increases.
    I can find myself talking to someone for an hour or more, and actually being able to appreciate an interesting conversation without the worry of screwing up.
     
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    It depends where I am on the internet. I have had a few different personas in the past, on other forums, and on MSN. Some of them for trolling purposes, some of them I created just because I didn't want to be myself. As for PC, I always just act myself.

    For a while, myself and 'Gary, The Magic Fairy' had a series of different personas, we both had access to all of the MSN accounts and would take it in turns to be each of the characters and fool people into thinking they were real. That was quite fun.

    Also when I was about 12-13 I created a new MSN account and pretended to be someone else. I introduced all my school friends to my other persona, and they all thought it was real person. I thought it was funny hearing them talk about it in class, discussing what they thought of their "new friend".

    Most of my "personas" have gone along these lines, usually just fooling around for fun. I've made one or two when I was younger, where I put some effort into it, and seriously just wanted to pretend I was a totally different person. But I've since abandoned them.

    As for offline, I don't purposefully create any personas.
     
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