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user-inactivated · 4232 days ago · link · · parent · post: What's your online persona, and how does it differ from your meatspace identity?
I'm more-or-less the same, but I'm much less appropriate in person. I pretty much lived on Usenet and irc until about halfway through college, so that's the way of interacting with people that comes most natural to me. I have to make an effort to speak when it's polite or expected but I don't have anything substantial to say, from being either too terse or too longwinded when I do, or from thinking too long before speaking and letting a silence drag on long enough to make people uncomfortable. I've gotten pretty good at it when I know I need to, but when I'm distracted or unprepared I usually only realize I must have seemed rude hours later.