Online/Off line personas

[Ansariyah]

Soo I was thinking, n I thought, Are people really over-reacting just cause they are online? I mean do some of you people seriously act the way u do on the forum offfline too? Grin constantly...acting all hyper. Not pointing fingers at anybody personally, but doesn't it get tiring?

Is there like a need to want to appear all happy dappy, so u seem cute maybe?

and does it make those of us who don't act like that appear "sad, depressed..."? lol

I try to actually with hold my cheerfulness alot, cause I feel like why shud I displace it on a forum? I'm very happy/smily but I won't try to show it on here. I'm not trying to explain myself, but someone asked me "if I am ok"? why cause I don't use crazy smilies. hehe.

I post as I feel, I won't post a smily if I am not smiling. etc. I won't pretend.

like for real...do any of you grin this way in real life?

"";D;D" <=I hate this smily lol. It looks goofy, insane n fake. Arghh.

so all Im asking is ...is this for real seriously?

Point of this thread? Wat's going on?!

(asked uncle woodrock to remove the other one...soo plss get ur replies back junior and the others who posted in the other thread

 

[aadil77]

can people appear offline? cos its really weird when someones just posted something like a minute ago and you're about to reply to them and they're already offline

 

[Ansariyah]

can people appear offline? cos its really weird when someones just posted something like a minute ago and you're about to reply to them and they're already offline

huh? im sorry I didn't get that.:-[

 

[Faith.]

can people appear offline? cos its really weird when someones just posted something like a minute ago and you're about to reply to them and they're already offline
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They might have posted & then logged out or something....

 

[Soulja Girl]

Yeaaa, I'm the same offline... I'm jus a natural init

 

[Ansariyah]

Yeaaa, I'm the same offline... I'm jus a natural init

actually for a crazy girl, ur pretty sane:.:sunny:..u seem pretty normal (from what I have seen neway).

 

[Güven]

:salamext:

ok now this smiley »»> ;D

yes i use it in real life !

If I smile ...I use one of these smileys ;D or LOL
If I laugh out loud I use either this ;D or ROFL
If something is weird/creepy/strange/cool :skeleton::uuh::muddleheaffended:oh: :exhausted
embarrassed :-[
sad imsad
confused :?


nah seriously though ..expressing feeling through smileys are important..Sometimes you cant see if the person is serious or not and you got stuck with the replying cuz you dont know how he/she feels but yes there is some exaggerations going on , i agree with that.
and i cant understand how people can actualy "Fake" it :?

like for example :

nice

Veryyyyy Mysterious!

Whoaah cool mashaAllah awesome ! oh:

he finds it interesting...



Now did that make sense ? I guess not

 

[Soulja Girl]

actually for a crazy girl, ur pretty sane:.:sunny:..u seem pretty normal (from what I have seen neway).

^Sure sure? Well, you've not seen how krazeh I am at home... Gave the mumzy a headache today... :X

 

[Cabdullahi]

yeah i think the majority here are alhamdulilah just normal ppl who dont put an act on!
but we cannot speculate as to who does it and who doesnt.. cus we might be wrong only allah knows....but we are muslims so we should be true

 

[Ansariyah]

:salamext:

ok now this smiley »»> ;D

yes i use it in real life !

If I smile ...I use one of these smileys ;D or LOL
If I laugh out loud I use either this ;D or ROFL
If something is weird/creepy/strange/cool :skeleton::uuh::muddleheaffended:oh: :exhausted
embarrassed :-[
sad imsad
confused :?


nah seriously though ..expressing feeling through smileys are important..Sometimes you cant see if the person is serious or not and you got stuck with the replying cuz you dont know how he/she feels but yes there is some exaggerations going on , i agree with that.
and i cant understand how people can actualy "Fake" it :?

like for example :



Veryyyyy Mysterious!



he finds it interesting...



Now did that make sense ? I guess not

thats what I mean...

 

[Woodrow]

A friend of mine Brian Kovacs presented the Kovacs "Onion theory of personality"

In his theory he proposed that we are like onions with numerous layer, it takes all of the layer to be the true self. We can only show one layer at a time so unless some one is with us constantly they have a very limited view of us.

Here, we all present our "forum" layer, it is quite different from the "interview" layer we would present when being interviewed for a job, and different from our "business" layer we would show when buying a car. etc But, it is still us.

Because this is a forum, with limitations of how we can present ourselves, all we will ever see of each other is our "forum" layers.

 

[Ansariyah]

Lol, I think you just answered your own question with the following:

Were you reallyyy all red in the face when you said this?

In my opinion, people tend to use emos to convey the tone with which they mean to say something.

Text by itself can be emotionless and it can be difficult to work out, for example, when somebody is joking etc.

Aadil, yes. People can appear offline on this forum.

I was shy..

I'm not trying to judge, I just feel like some people are fake. Allahu Allam. I think as muslims we should be real. Seriously, who grins like that against the opposite gender in person? lol...and Yes I did laugh for real.

I'm new to all the cyberspace so pls forgive me for anything awkward I might say.

 

[kwolney01]

I do think some people act differently online and offline. I use similes sometimes and I use them to brighten up my posts. If I want to make the person smile themselves I may put a similes on my posts. I think it just depends on the person. As you said you hate similes so you don't use them that's how you feel. I don't think a person is sad or depressed because they don't use similes. I do agree that some people tend to go overboard with it though. It's just a minor issue anyways and we shouldn't spend too much of our time getting mad or upset over a simile.

 

[Ansariyah]

A friend of mine Brian Kovacs presented the Kovacs "Onion theory of personality"

In his theory he proposed that we are like onions with numerous layer, it takes all of the layer to be the true self. We can only show one layer at a time so unless some one is with us constantly they have a very limited view of us.

Here, we all present our "forum" layer, it is quite different from the "interview" layer we would present when being interviewed for a job, and different from our "business" layer we would show when buying a car. etc But, it is still us.

Because this is a forum, with limitations of how we can present ourselves, all we will ever see of each other is our "forum" layers.

ok...interesting.

 

[Ansariyah]

I do think some people act differently online and offline. I use similes sometimes and I use them to brighten up my posts. If I want to make the person smile themselves I may put a similes on my posts. I think it just depends on the person. As you said you hate similes so you don't use them that's how you feel. I don't think a person is sad or depressed because they don't use similes. I do agree that some people tend to go overboard with it though. It's just a minor issue anyways and we shouldn't spend too much of our time getting mad or upset over a simile.

Sis I wasn't upset, I just thought it wud be interesting to discuss this so I see peoples views in general. I am not upset.:sunny:....

I dont hate smilies, just one in particular. The rest are ok...I guess.

 

[chacha_jalebi]

well interesting topic

i agree with alpha dudette, like if i said this thread is crap, and then i said this thread is crap you can tell im jokin, if i didnt put the tongue you couldnt tell! so people use faces because it shows which tone they usin innay!

also maybe people are not like this in real life, but they should be smile!

 

[chacha_jalebi]

Chacha, you mean you really do walk about in real life with your teeth all exposed like that? :muddlehea

well no otherwise i would be a colgate model

but i honestly do smile, like ive been told i have a really approachable face!! dont get any ideas BRO:-[

 

[IbnAbdulHakim]

Seriously, who grins like that against the opposite gender in person? lol....

you know there have been times in reality where a sister would approach me, or a girl (basically opp gender) who would say something which i would find ammusing or funny and naturally this would make me smile/grin or laugh, however i wouldnt look at them.. although i would still be smiling/grinning my head would be facing down... get me?




as for the question..

ive looked over my posts quite a bit and i gotta say, its all me... BUT (yes the BUT!) this could only be because I KNOW ME, so i look at it the way i KNOW i intended it..get me?



what i mean is everyone can take words/emoticons in different ways.




and lol, ;D <--- this is not fake or goofy, seriously its just showing that your having a lil laugh






assalamu alaikum

 

[chacha_jalebi]

the moral of the story is we are all different and we have different writing styles and expressin styles, if someone is comin on here and bein fake, we shouldnt laugh at them, we should ban them naa lol let people do what they wan, we cant change them, we can only advice them!

i would close the thread but im tired

 

[Ansariyah]

the moral of the story is we are all different and we have different writing styles and expressin styles, if someone is comin on here and bein fake, we shouldnt laugh at them, we should ban them naa lol let people do what they wan, we cant change them, we can only advice them!

i would close the thread but im tired

why close the thread?...:X

no one said no one can do what they want. shooot.