Your personality online vs. real life.

[Noblejanobii]

I would like to thing I'm a lot calmer online than I am IRL, but... eh. I think my online personality is very similar to my offline one, save for the fact that sometimes online I'll say something that I'd probably never say IRL. In addition, I tend to type very formally so I sound quite different from text to speech just in the difference between what I type and what I actually say.

I would definitely admit that I am a lot more emotional online than I am in real life, especially when it comes to being upset or angry. In real life I've come to adopt a very stoic expression if I'm angry, bothered, or sad, and refuse to admit it because people tend to take that as a sign of weakness, especially as a woman in politics. Here, however, I'm much more expressive and don't really try to hide my emotions if at all possible.

Also, quite often when I use emoticons or say something like "lol", I'm not actually making that expression and it's just me staring at the screen but it's usually representing what I would be doing if you said that to my face. I'm also a bit more honest online. I feel like I don't have to hide myself as much online as I do in real life since I am anonymous in many ways.