Created personalities online

[andrewcardall]

Why do people have to lie about what/who they are on the internet, until the reach the stage that they've created a whole new persona for themselves, which has very little in common with the person in reality

Comments

[majinkaze]

Do I "know" said person? =(

[andrewcardall]

Perhaps :(

no end and no point

[kaeladonos]

hum... I started out just stickily simming. have a starwars persona and only showing that , but I was 16 and an idiot. now i find that is way to much work and have grown up. Now i just talk like who i am, pretense is too hard. I am just too tiered to make stuff up and i find no benefit to it, further more my real life is more interesting and more dynamic then anything i could come up with.

I realized something the other day when i was thinking about this very subject, real stories rarely have an end, typical have no point or even theme....

Re: no end and no point

[andrewcardall]

But I feel there's a difference between simming, and constantly being a "different" person, as some people do. The simming is a way of Entertainment and is only brief, and you don't take yourself seriously when simming. *l*

Re: no end and no point

[kaeladonos]

true, my false hoods were always very clearly false. If you meet a girl claming to be a 300 year old jedi master, you know that isn't the truest of statments.

I did use to do more hardcore simming (i don't anymore) where it was like, you would write as this other person for hours at a time, but again it was clear that this was a simm and this isn't how i really thought i was.

But allot of it may have to do with age. When i was 16 i was paranoid, I was sacred and i didn't think things out. If this person is young maybe they will grow out of it? maybe when they get in to college or real life they will be like. oh.. i can just be my self.

If they are old.. omg wow :/ dude that is messed up and no healthy!

awww

[kaeladonos]

poor budy icon :( he has a sock on his head....

[manchester_red]

I know someone like that . . .

[tysolna]

Aye.

[intendent]

Me too.

(Why do I have a feeling we're all talking about the same person?)

[andrewcardall]

Chances are we all do, to some degree. *l*

[karmabunny]

oh AJson... you can't dangle that in our faces and then not tell us... =P

[andrewcardall]

Chrissie darling, this post was more about the point in general, and not to criticise one person. If it was, I'd name the names :( But this person was just an example who came to mind, ya know? :(

[karmabunny]

I do... twas just giving you a hard time sweets.. no worries*l*

[andrewcardall]

Ah, that's grand so :D *hugs*