September 5, 2007

• Does your Internet persona differ much from you in real life? Why or why not?

   . . . a little bit, yes.

  I think that when I have the chance to write things down, I tend to communicate more coherently. I live for the backspace key, editing, having the chance to re-word things . . . I feel like I can actually think when I “talk,” as opposed to having real life conversations and not being able to delete silly things I say.

  Otherwise, though, a lot of things that I do online have carried over into real life (namely abbrevs, which I love and use more than occash,) which can be a good or a bad thing. Not everyone knows what “btdubs” means when I say it or what “less than three” means, but growing up online means having a sub-culture that infiltrates your life – and not necessarily in a negative way.

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