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Online & Offline lives.

Nick

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    Some people have one life. Their internet and offline lives seem to merge into one. Internet friends now of their real life friends, real life friends know where they spend their whole time.

    Some people like to keep the two completely separate. They mention their offline friends online, and occasionally mention their online friends offline, but only refer to them by their name. They leave out information like where they live, or what they do, and just stick to the need to know information. They don't like offline friends knowing anything about their online life, and likewise.

    Which one are you?

    Do you keep your internet life separate from your offline life? Or do you not care so much for the boundaries between the two?
     
    They are completely separate. I especially try to keep my real life and everyone I know in my real life from knowing anything about my online life. In fact none of my friends know I like Pokemon or that I'm part of an online forum. The only people that know are my parents and my siblings and that's just because they live with me so they sort of have to know. With that said, they don't really know I have friends here or talk to anyone as much as I do.

    I have no problem mentioning my real life here though and I often do. Sometimes I mention people from online to my real life friends, but I never tell them they are people from online. I'll just say something like, "Oh it's one my cousin's friends." or "Oh it's a family friend of mine."

    As for my own real life online accounts I don't share those with anyone from online. I'm taking about things such a Twitter, which I have, but I've never given it out to anyone from here. The only real life thing about myself that I've shared with someone from online is my number, but that was with only one person anyways.

    I just prefer my online and offline life to be completely separate from each other. I really wouldn't want anyone else in real life to know what I do in my spare time and I really don't want anyone from my online life to find me on social websites and then try to friend me everywhere.
     
    I don't care i merge the two so then my internet friends are my real friends!
    (but sometimes they are my only friends :( )
     
    I keep them separate. I mention things about my real friends and real life to people online but I never mention my online friends or online life to people offline. Even though I like posting on forums and think they're a nice communication tool I would be too embarrassed to show anybody that I post on them. I don't really think anybody I know has the capacity to post up to a good standard anyway and I say a lot of things online I wouldn't want people offline knowing just yet.
     
    I have a few irl friends that know about PC and the people I've met here, and my dad and grandmother know. But I have so few irl friends and don't do a lot with social stuff, so my online friends don't really hear anything about my offline life. It's kinda slowed down without band, tbh. That was where all my friends and socialization was.

    Um there was a time when my irl and online life crashed into each other pretty badly. Actually twice. But I have no regrets, since the turnout from those clashes was for the better.
     
    Well for me it really depends... I merge the two sometimes and sometimes they're completely separate. Like, if one of my offline friends brings up a good point an online friend helped explain a little better prior, I'll bring that up, but only the need to know info. And vice versa.

    But honestly, it all depends on my mood and the subject at hand.

    -feels fail for short post-
     
    I don't give a crap, I merge the two together. call me lame, but I consider my closest online friends to be my irl friends, not just online people I socialize with. they're my friends regardless of where in the world they are. again, my closest online friends probably know me and my life and my feelings better than anyone I know irl, and my irl friends know about my online friends and they think it's really cool I have friends from different places.

    friends are friends, i'm not going to look at my friends as anything less just because we met on a website rather than in school or something. it doesn't change how much they were there for me and how much they mean to me. so no, I don't keep them seperate at all.
     
    I keep them separate. I really love my online life, but I know it's impossible to live the same way in my offline life.
    It's just too different to live it in the real world.
    I often think about living in a virtual world, but unfortunately, it seems to be a really hard dream to fullfil.

    I completely like sharing my online life with my offline friends, and if they could come with me, it would be better again. Or not. It depends.
    Personally, if I leave out some information like where I live, or anything else like that, it's because I think it's not the kind of informations we should let people know as easily.
     
    I keep them completely seperate, with the exception of having a few close real-life friends on MSN.
     
    I guess I have two separate lives?

    I'll mention online friends every now and then to people I know in real life (especially to my parents), and I'll sometimes mention friends I know in real life on here. Most of the time, though, I don't really do that sort of thing.
     
    Do you keep your internet life separate from your offline life? Or do you not care so much for the boundaries between the two?

    They're completely separate. My friends know I play pokémon, but they all do too. They don't know I am / was such a big fan (I'm actually losing interest), and definitely don't know about my membership to this forum. They've probably never heard of smogon, or bulbapedia, or serebii...or maybe they're all like me and keep everything separate. Who knows?

    Anyway, I never mention my online live to offline friends, although I occasionally reference my offline life online, it's very vague.
     
    Offline life? What offline life?

    Seriously though, My offline life is absolutely pathetic.

    And yes, I do keep them separate.
     
    ._. My family knows most of my online friends like they do my offline friends. I've never been good at keeping them separate. My openness is likely part of the reason my family has never had issues with me meeting internet friends. :B
     
    Ayselipera said:
    They are completely separate. I especially try to keep my real life and everyone I know in my real life from knowing anything about my online life. In fact none of my friends know I like Pokemon or that I'm part of an online forum. The only people that know are my parents and my siblings and that's just because they live with me so they sort of have to know. With that said, they don't really know I have friends here or talk to anyone as much as I do.

    I have no problem mentioning my real life here though and I often do. Sometimes I mention people from online to my real life friends, but I never tell them they are people from online. I'll just say something like, "Oh it's one my cousin's friends." or "Oh it's a family friend of mine."

    As for my own real life online accounts I don't share those with anyone from online. I'm taking about things such a Twitter, which I have, but I've never given it out to anyone from here. The only real life thing about myself that I've shared with someone from online is my number, but that was with only one person anyways.

    I just prefer my online and offline life to be completely separate from each other. I really wouldn't want anyone else in real life to know what I do in my spare time and I really don't want anyone from my online life to find me on social websites and then try to friend me everywhere.
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    I am exactly like this. Especially about the first paragraph. No one knows I am part of an online pokemon sites. I have one friend that knows I like pokemon. But he doesn't know anything more than that. At one stage a pokemon phase went through my school though XD Weird.

    I will occasionally mention things about my offline life here though. Not much but some stuff. I don't share my FB here, and I made an MSN purely for online friends.

    The only people who know I go on pokemon sites are my parents and siblings, as we live together they obviously know. As for pokemon games I guess most kids in my year, as everyone used to play in Religion and English lessons with each other for a few months till people got caught.
     
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