Do you find that you are expessing yourself online more than IRL?

[Bok_Tukalo]

Do you move through The World like an automoton and save all your good stuff for The Web?

Have you even become slightly exhibitionist and try to share what should be private emotional conversations it a public forum?

Just asking.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. Well, I curse less here.

[CanuckAmok]

3. I don't masturbate while I'm talking, IRL.

Other than that, it's pretty much the same.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Oh,.. ICK! *lol*

[iconoclastic cat]

14. Yeah. Yuck.

[Tallison]

42. But you can while you type?

A practical and enviable talent. :applause:

[SOteric]

2. Not even slightly.

People who know me well will grant that I'm not exactly an open book. The online community has only a vague notion of my thoughts, actions, emotional life and doings.

[Bok_Tukalo]

4. That's seems like a rational outlook

not shared by all.

[Quagmire05]

5. Yeah

I think I have. Interesting thought. I wonder how the internet has changed people too. We're more knowlegable, probably more subduded in public, probably changed us in alot of ways for better or worse

[Bok_Tukalo]

6. I think you are ok as long as when feeling an emotion

your fingers don't itch.

[Sugar Smack]

10. I have grown a lot more outspoken IRL since my experience here.

And I've met a lot more people than I would have if I'd never logged onto this website.

[u4ic]

27. Welcome to DU, Quagmire

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

7. I think I'm a bit more "wide open" online

but the same. Also, IRL I tend to not use smilies. Esp. not the "bounce" smilie.

[Bok_Tukalo]

24. I don't think so

You are much more open in person and much more expressive and interesting on a one to one level. Your text can never match your voice.

[Sugar Smack]

31. Neither can yours.

I can't help that I want to expose a lot to you.

:toast: You're a freak, and I hold you in the highest regard.

[MrSlayer]

9. Not on this board no. Everywhere else I'm the same.

Half the time here I just erase what I was going to say.

[MrSandman]

11. I don't talk using.....

lol
iirc
eom
ymmv
IRL(except when discussing motor sports)

[Bok_Tukalo]

18. Foul! I only did IRL for space consideration in the subject line.

<ope>

[MrSandman]

22. No harm, no foul...

I use all those others and then some.

Never offline, though.

[progmom]

12. Hi Bok

I feel like you're making a point. Can you be more specific?

[Bok_Tukalo]

16. No. Point.

Just curious as to the level of involvement from those who use the Internet for socialization and whether or not they have found themselves puting The World into this context; seeing something and thinking about how they will relate it here (or on another forum) instead of face to face with another individual.

That sort of thing, Prog.

[progmom]

38. ah - i see.

i do often think about how i would relate a story to DU. but i have kept all my real life friends. :)

[bridgit]

13. it certainly depends upon the requester...

i post far more on professional/career based sites & there is little opportunity to break with decorum lest 'networking' become impinged, or impacted upon in a ways unforeseen through pie-eyes; perhaps good advise all around = sadly, or perhaps more realistically speaking, it is not always 'a gum drop sky' off, or: online wuba-wuba

;)

[Sugar Smack]

15. Hey, Bridgit.

I miss you.

[bridgit]

19. my Czarina, SugarSmack...

do :loveya: no doubts, prepping pm dispatch for tomorrow compiling illuminati-esque remembrance of our weekend in 'the city' per your request, my sweet (did the link to the pics come through, i swear i can't get hubby to stop being an artist but we sure tied some shit on while there); Joani is a dead ringer for Bacall, no? what a hoot you two tripping round kicking up a good time instead; love always lover, never say "no" to love, that is the way ~

[Sugar Smack]

23. beautiful.

just beautiful.

I wish I was there.

[bridgit]

25. i'll spill 'the beans' a little bit, a few beans as it were...

i'm born & raised in cali but this guy is a trip to hang with, i'd never done it before, never even thought about it, but i asked, "what we doing now?" he smiles & says, "i know just what. we'll go 'stand on the horn'"

you could hear it from all over the city, the vibration of the traffic a given, but the atmospherics of the fog horn rumbling the bottoms of my feet as it sounded was a singular experience i'd never had = too cool, snapped those pics, tripped on the various moments, talked about you & your happiness, the happiness of our friends, their drama they could have avoided were they have been moving in smaller, more elegant circles; and then off: http://www.sfbrewing.com

:loveya: :hippie:

[Sugar Smack]

29. I cannot wait to hear about it in a PM.

SHIT!!!!!! My cat's trapped behind the stove again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

love you! :hi:

-Steffi

[In_The_Wind]

30. next time

if it's still warm weather

[bridgit]

33. su-weet ~

:hi: http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com i'm simple that way

[In_The_Wind]

34. been there ... done that

trikes can when two wheels can't !

Bull Taco, Triumph, Yamahaaaaa Virago 650

[bridgit]

35. easier to pull a little trailer too...

may as well take the essentials along :thumbsup:

[In_The_Wind]

37. leather chaps & vest

clean undies, jeans, shorts & tees (and an extra helmet for Sugar if N.C. requires one)... what more could I ask for.

The only thing I need to do is plot a course that doesn't include I 81 through Wilkes-Berry, Pa.

[Sugar Smack]

40. Joani~ having been fortunate enough to meet you

and looking forward to future visits, I can readily attest to the fact that IRL, you've got the world by the balls.

[In_The_Wind]

41. There's no doubt about it ~ you're awesome Sugar !

It's not a perfect world ... as you know, there are one or two things I can think of that would make my world a bit smilier ~ having said that everything else is pretty damn good!




BTW let me know when you're traveling in August & please drop into a motorcycle shop, try on a few helmets to find out the correct size for me to bring along for you to wear

[bridgit]

32. just sent 'the little one', ooooh...

that darn cat!!! :rofl:

[Bok_Tukalo]

17. I read your posts often and they are like looking at a Pollock

I always end up feeling "Wha fuck?"

[bridgit]

21. from the midst of it all i care for your well-being, Bok_Tukalo...

:hi:

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. I'm very introverted in so-called "real life", so, yeah.

Wouldn't be surprised if the same applies to quite a few other people.

[In_The_Wind]

26. nope

[u4ic]

28. No

I don't feel comfortable revealing all online.

[henslee]

36. online is real life.

[Wapsie B]

39. Somewhat more.

Online you can find others to talk about subjects that interest you a great deal. You can't always do that IRL.