Writer's Block: Divided Self
Do you behave differently online than you do in real life?
I do. Most of it has to do with the people I know online vs the people I knew IRL - online, I can talk about fandom stuff, fic writing, RPing, things like that. Almost everyone I know online I've met through one or more of those things. By contrast, most of the people I know IRL aren't involved in any of those things. They don't watch the same TV shows as I do, they don't blog, and they don't get involved in any fandoms. And with them, I talk about things that I generally don't talk about with my online friends, like teaching and sports and our various chronic illnesses. Most of my online friends aren't baseball-obsessed or fellow teachers. It's like I have two halves, and each group of people gets to see one half. My personality is pretty much the same, though. I'm always perky, passionate and long-winded no matter where I am.