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    Posts: 1,298 Member
    edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
    I was just talking to an online friend of mine and we talked about the differences between someone's online personality and their "in real life" personality - being over the phone or in person.

    He had met some that were very outgoing online, yet reserved on the phone (or in person) and vice versa. Which seems odd to me, to be reserved online yet outgoing in person.


    So, I ask of you, dear MFPers ... how do you judge ~your~ personality difference? Does your online persona match your "real" one?


    me? what you see is what you get. There is not ~one~ thing I would say here that I wouldn't say in person. And my personality matches pretty well. I'm pretty much sarcastic and obnoxious everywhere. ~wink~

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    • Posts: 1,873 Member
      im totally different im a super shy person in real life
    • Posts: 2,132 Member
      Wow do i wish i was different, but i am as much of an a**hole here as I am in real life.
    • Posts: 319 Member
      I'm pretty much the same, although I don't use the words, slutty, *kitten*, trampsy, hooker or skank nearly as much in real life :laugh:
    • Posts: 2,832 Member
      I'm exactly the same.
    • Posts: 2,283 Member
      I'm a snarky and drunk *****y chick IRL too...not just here! :wink:
    • Posts: 339


      me? what you see is what you get. There is not ~one~ thing I would say here that I wouldn't say in person. And my personality matches pretty well. I'm pretty much sarcastic and obnoxious everywhere. ~wink~

      I'm pretty much the same always
    • Posts: 459 Member
      im totally different im a super shy person in real life

      About the same here
    • Posts: 124
      I'm pretty much the same on or offline.
    • Posts: 1,167 Member
      If you are first meeting me I will be really shy and really quiet until I warm up to you - but once I know you... you better watch out I am out going.. never shut up and am really sarcastic and obnoxious... sometimes I wonder why some of my real life friends keep me around lol


      I find it easier to not be as shy online because no one can see me make an *kitten* of myself, I can take my time to write a response and I don't stumble over my words or look at my feet.
    • Posts: 1,314 Member
      I'm the same person online and offline, but I am a bit quieter when conversation is serious. You have to get me really passionate about something to have me go into detail the way I do online.

      I'm a bit useless at verbal communication, but the written word is my 'thing'. I'm a writer, and there are times when I want to have a serious conversation or deal with an issue and I'll grab the laptop and type it out because that's easier for me than speaking.
    • Posts: 2,518 Member
      I'm pretty friendly and outgoing online while in real life I am a pretty shy, reserved person.
    • Posts: 7,870 Member
      I am very shy/reserved when I first meet people in real life, although once I know them, I'm the same as I am on here - a pretty balanced blend of brutal honesty, sarcasm, and compassion (although I'm more of a control freak in real life)
    • Posts: 1,525 Member
      I am EXACTLY the same. Except in real life I'm much louder. But don't judge me by my pics, I am not a contortionist.
    • Posts: 1,298 Member
      Wow do i wish i was different, but i am as much of an a**hole here as I am in real life.


      that just makes me love you so much more.
    • Posts: 2,810 Member
      I'm pretty much the same. Opinionated, sarcastic, inappropriate about 60% of the time, but respectful of other people and their views.

      I probably swear more in real life though. Only because you get in trouble for that *kitten* on forums here.
    • Posts: 1,277 Member
      I am mostly the same. There's probably a few subtle differences. I am probably more of a **** online, but I am close friends with people who are exclusively **** bags online and very nice in real life.
    • Posts: 1,957 Member
      In real life, I'm an ever bigger perv.....and dirtier old man (is dirtier a word?? )
    • Posts: 4,123 Member
      i'm just a tad more flirtatious online, but other than that, you're looking at the real mccoy. you're just missing the snort laughs :)
    • Posts: 2,132 Member
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      that just makes me love you so much more.
      I'm really a midget though
    • Posts: 1,421 Member
      I'm an Encyclopedia of useless knowledge in "real" life as well as online. It's awesome.
    • Posts: 429 Member
      Once I get past my initial shyness, "in real life" , I'm very much the same.

      I do tend to be very reserved until I warm up to people -- I can't expose my whole spectrum of crazy right off the bat -- that'd scare them away. :sad:
    • Posts: 654 Member
      i am more of a ball buster in real life, here i try not offend anyone.
    • Posts: 1,510 Member
      IRL I am a total b!tch
    • Posts: 211
      I'm so different. I like my "real life" personality better. I guess I'm better at it because I "know my audience" in real life as opposed to online.
    • Posts: 1,298 Member
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      I'm really a midget though


      the deal is off.
    • Posts: 1,865 Member
      I'm pretty much a sarcastic pervert in person as well as online. :drinker:
    • Posts: 601 Member
      I am braver at 1st online , in real life I try to feel people out 1st then I let it fly, I am silly sarcastic and want more then anything to make someone laugh or be happy.
    • Posts: 1,957 Member
      I'm an Encyclopedia of useless knowledge in "real" life as well as online. It's awesome.

      I think I found my new NTN Buzztime partner
    • Posts: 680 Member
      Once I get past my initial shyness, "in real life" , I'm very much the same.

      I do tend to be very reserved until I warm up to people -- I can't expose my whole spectrum of crazy right off the bat -- that'd scare them away. :sad:

      shy? ಠ_ಠ
      nice pic
    • Posts: 9,307 Member
      I may be a little more reserved in real life but I don`t think I am all that different.
      Guess some that I have met in person would have to answer that.
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