REAL people

[Krusti]

I would tend to agree with you scum. What us older foggies tend to realise though is that words written quite often have a totally different meaning from those spoken.

Accounts for why so many people get misunderstood texting.

Or maybe I'm just an old fart..

[Brian d marge]

Stop putting your foot in it...

when I do that I use metric


Stephen

[White trash]

Not me Scummy. I'm a bigger prick in real life than I am on here.

[avgas]

Us older types have had more practice at telling lies, so now they sound believable

Even you believed that one

[Harry33]

I've meet some really cool young people and some really cool old people. All walks of life are going to come on here. It's a forum trolls and all.
I just try and keep a open mind and sometimes I learn things.

Maturity generally comes later in life when your smart enough to look back and figure out you where once a Asshole too. lol Well I was a asshole when I was younger.

[TerminalAddict]

Not me Scummy. I'm a bigger prick in real life than I am on here.

My prick is bigger in real life

did I post that outloud?

edit: WARNING - Objects on the internet may seem larger than they are

[janno]

Good thing about the weeb - you get to see a person's sense of humour come through which may not be noticeable if you met them at your local watering hole if they are a tad shy or whatever. So when you do meet them the ice is already broken!

Bad thing about the weeb - can tempt some people into saying outrageous or truely hurtful stuff because they don't have to look the other person in the eye. Cowards!

Best thing about the weeb - instant answers to just about any question. If someone doesn't know, they know someone who does.

Has it made bikers even more social than the old days, do you think? I haven't been in the scene long enough to know, but I'd be interested in some of the old hand's opinions.

(Old in a purely subjective sense of course. . .)

By the way, at 36, anyone older than me is officially ancient. And I intend to milk it for all it's worth.

[Big Dave]

Meh - I'm a legend in real life too.

[limbimtimwim]

http://www.danah.org/papers/

But a short article that may provide some insight (Same author):

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...ral_profi.html

The article is about how young people are more willing to discard personalities and start over. Their online self being someone that they care not to maintain, and if it becomes too tarnished, forget the password or are just 'over it', they can move on.

In real life, it's quite a lot harder to change.

Some of the old crusties ( ) here have been doing the same thing for years. Wife, kids, house, job. Perhaps you have forgotten what it is like to change your life every few years , school, uni, moving out of home, first job, motorbike .

Ie. The young in' who appear different from their online persona IRL is in fact a different person from who they were just a few months ago. But perhaps the personality of the screen name remains largely static as time goes on, fixed somewhat on who that person was when they first started using the (Or a) site.

[MidnightMike]

There are exceptions, of course. I can't remember his online name but I remember some posts made by a 16 year-old (who is probably older now) that really surprised me because of their insight. Someone confirmed they knew the guy and he really was 16, and I was impressed.

Theres always the insolent and the insightful, personally, I prefer to be the latter. Others dont, though I agree its mainly us "young'ns" that do so, though theres plenty of you older folk aswell that have verbal diarrhea and therefore decide to 'shit' throughout these forums.

[scumdog]

http://www.danah.org/papers/

But a short article that may provide some insight (Same author):

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/arc...ral_profi.html

Those article is about how young people are more willing to discard personalities and start over. Their online self being someone that they care not to maintain, and if it becomes too tarnished, forget the password or are just 'over it', they can move on.

In real life, it's quite a lot harder to change.

Kinda a parallel to racing games/war games on PS2 etc.

Ya lose?

Sheesh, simply hit the restart button, no consequences, no repercussions

But real life ain't like that - although an awful lot lose sight of that fact.

[johnnyflash]

I have made the observation from contacting members of KB on-line and 'in the flesh' that it seems that older members are more true to their on-line persona than younger ones.

Younger members seem to like to portray an alter-ego on-line, they seem to think nothing of telling a far-fetched story, make outrageous claims etc. - nothing is too wild "cos it's only the internet guy"

Older members (I suspect) come form the old school of letter writing with a pen and paper where you tended to stick with fact in the knowledge you would very likely (in general) be meeting the recipient of the letter you had written.

Youner guys seem to revel in their anonimity it seems.

Any comments one way or the other - truthfully??

So true Scumdog, I think it started a long time ago, Ive been on the "net" since the very early days in the 80's when BBS's were the in thing, and that was something that stood out to us then as well, so it has not changed in the passing years, the younger community even then fell in love with the annonimity of it all, and though they are now 20 odd years older they still follow that line. I think the older fellows operate like they were standing in front of the other guy and try to talk with some respect..

[yungatart]

Maybe some of the "young" ones feel they have something to prove, while most of us who are more "mature" couldn't give a rats arse about how we "appear" and are rather more comfortable with the personality we have been lugging around with us for umpteen years.
Most of the young ones that I have met are really nice, both on and off line, although they tend to be a little more reactionary.

[Colapop]

I dunno what I'm like in 'real' life - I suspect the same as I am on here... others often give an appraisal that seems to me to be a little large. All I know is that I'm a hopeless liar so I have no choice but to be who I is...



Ummm.... coz I'm am who I is does that make me old?

[SPman]

I have made the observation from contacting members of KB on-line and 'in the flesh' that it seems that older members are more true to their on-line persona than younger ones.

Younger members seem to like to portray an alter-ego on-line, they seem to think nothing of telling a far-fetched story, make outrageous claims etc. - nothing is too wild "cos it's only the internet guy"

Older members (I suspect) come form the old school of letter writing with a pen and paper where you tended to stick with fact in the knowledge you would very likely (in general) be meeting the recipient of the letter you had written.

Younger guys seem to revel in their anonymity it seems.

Any comments one way or the other - truthfully??

Hmmmm.......There are many outspoken people I've met on here, that are very much like that in real life. It can be a mite embarrassing, at times, if you are, generally, a quiet woos, like me.
And, obviously, to the quiet mass of people on here - they don't seem to last too long, for one reason or another.

Obviously the difference between real life, in all it's shades, echoes and nuances, which can put quite different meaning into words and expressions which seem outrageous in the stark printed word and relative sterility of the net, where people who have never met and don't know how to react to the individual, can take umbrage, outrage or offense at something, which if said in conversation, can mean or intend something quite different.
Some people make allowances for the electronic literalness and tone it down, (often older people who may have had a lot of strife in their life), some don't notice, because thats really how they are in real life and others just don't care......because that's how they are????

Perhaps, younger people are still trying to find their real persona - I know I changed a lot from 15 to 35, and the net is a place to try out something different, experiment without having to expose themselves too much.
Older people have perhaps found who they are, are comfortable in that, and that is how we generally see them ....

(Eg. - Mstriumph doesn't say stuff on here that she wouldn't, face to face! She's just as, if not even more, forthright in real life!! She knows she's gonna get flattened one day, but that doesn't stop her. If she thinks something needs to be said or done, nothings going to stop her....)