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Hiding Behind the Computer

Valgar said:
People become experts in everything, triple black-belt martial artists, you name it once they get behind a keyboard.
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It is funny to read comments people post as if we can dispute them or believe them more. Get a lot of "First of all I'm a lawyer by trade..." ok I guess :rofl

or "I was a competitive gymnast so I kinda know what I'm talking about" alright...guess I'll take you're word for it :laughing

The internet I feel does give people to live vicariously through a persona of themselves they wish they had. Bet if you did a poll most people would say the avatar they chose somehow relates to them.
 
i think for the most part I am who I am online. perhaps a tad more of an asshole, but not much,(im an asshole in general lol). Im not hiding behind much, my first and last name are in every post I post lol

but I think dubs hit the nail on the head two posts up. it allows you to be who you wish you were
 
Beauregard said:
Now I'm beginning to wonder what my online persona is and if it carries through to reality.
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Are you going to continue your Attention Whore rep and start a thread asking everyone to describe it for you?

15 page thread minimum.


:laughing


just kidding. I am sure you are exactly the person we all read you as. A funny intellectual sock selling beer swigging man-of-man type that has a love for all bike types, can sell ice to eskimos, and can pleasure all barf wimminz at the same time. While most of the rest of the dudes hold your jacket.
 
SteelerFanatic said:
Are you going to continue your Attention Whore rep and start a thread asking everyone to describe it for you?

15 page thread minimum.
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Actually that's exactly what I was looking for. 4tW!

Really hoping OP would say something like "no Beau, you're much more meek and modest in-person... and a bigger cock too.
 
Beauregard said:
I think BARF is a little different. Lots of us have actually met. And there are a plenty of us who have been here a long time, like 10+ years, and know each other pretty well even if we haven't met; so it's pretty easy to weed out the R1/scooter/pony keyboard commandos who troll between gobs into their drool cups.

With that said, I know the OP in person and motherfucker has some guns for arms, so if you kick his ass online consider yourself lucky he's not standing in front of you.
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Me and several other people think you're the coolest guy on barf.:thumbup:laughing

DucatiHoney said:
I wouldn't think too much on it, Tim. The internet can create an environment of unfiltered thoughts being expressed, and people might say things on a forum that are hurtful without really meaning to hurt. Yeah, it can be a pretty negative experience if you let it, but you can also use it as a tool. Hey, now ya know never to bring up the Harley argument at a party in person :twofinger The experience stung a little online, but that could have been a big social faux pas if done in a crowd of people. They used their anonymity to whoop up on you, but you can also use it to make the event a distant memory in pretty short order. If I bumped into you at a meet and you bought me a beer next week, I bet I would have a hard time recalling that it ever happened. And that will be the case with most people involved in that thread. You're a perfectly decent guy, and if it came up in conversation with your biggest adversary in there, I bet you and he would have a good laugh in 15 minutes over it.

Been in your shoes, and not all that long ago. Be thankful that you didn't have to go through it in person and learn from it. Being a mod on BARF has not thickened my skin--it's taught me to see things differently. Instead of becoming numb to other people, I've become more sensitive (I'd like to think.) I force myself to walk in their shoes before judging. And I try to get out to meet the most difficult people I've encountered online. Most of them turn out to simply have a different way of communicating through the keyboard--and maybe I don't get it--but they're not trying to personally cause me pain.

(A few are total a-holes that I wish would get herpes simplex 11, too, but that's what makes this place interesting, right? :laughing.)
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Thanks, you're very sweet.:blush
 
This conversation is along the same lines of:
Are you the same person at work as you are at home?
Do you talk the same way at your grandparents house as you do your own?

or, when you were a kid, Do you talk the same at school with your buds as you do at home with your parents?


The internet is that place where you can be all those different personalities at the same time.
 
Versystim said:
Me and several other people think you're the coolest guy on barf.:thumbup:laughing
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SteelerFanatic said:
This conversation is along the same lines of:
Are you the same person at work as you are at home?
Do you talk the same way at your grandparents house as you do your own?

or, when you were a kid, Do you talk the same at school with your buds as you do at home with your parents?


The internet is that place where you can be all those different personalities at the same time.
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Now you're fucking with me.:rolleyes
 
Dubbington said:
It is funny to read comments people post as if we can dispute them or believe them more. Get a lot of "First of all I'm a lawyer by trade..." ok I guess :rofl

or "I was a competitive gymnast so I kinda know what I'm talking about" alright...guess I'll take you're word for it :laughing

The internet I feel does give people to live vicariously through a persona of themselves they wish they had. Bet if you did a poll most people would say the avatar they chose somehow relates to them.
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I'll bet your waxed up rollerblade laces aren't coming undone on ya tho.
 
I'm far more sarcastic and belittling in person. I give people on the Internet the benefit of the doubt as it floats in a lofty and random context.
 
kevin 714 said:
i think for the most part I am who I am online. perhaps a tad more of an asshole, but not much,(im an asshole in general lol). Im not hiding behind much, my first and last name are in every post I post lol

but I think dubs hit the nail on the head two posts up. it allows you to be who you wish you were
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I'm be'in all I can be; an ignorant, inbred, backwoods hillbillie!
Hell, a feller needz ta set goals fer himself right?

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I've never felt compelled to be anyone but myself; online or otherwise. My avatar is even ME!

I really do have a problem when the people I know in meat-space are different from their online personas.
 
omg!1Gosh!! internet tough guy is for reAlz>??? hey OP you post like a gurl!@!!
 
EjGlows said:
I should qualify that and say the people I know really well and who act like assholes online.
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if they're an asshole online, that's who they really are and just hide it well in real life. makes me think you didn't really know them that well - you probably just knew them a long time which is not the same thing.
 
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