Are you different online?

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Asiyah3 said:
This thread shocked and depresses me. How can people be so different online? Isn't this wrong if you do it consciously?.. Like a two-faced person.
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Well some people are introverts. So they express their inner feelings online and not so much offline :o.

Some people are just shy offline.

Those are some reasons I can think of, for them being different..
 
فرحان said:
Well some people are introverts. So they express their inner feelings online and not so much offline :o.

Some people are just shy offline.
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They can express their inner feelings to people through writing on a computer but not by speaking? So why are they not shy offline if they aren't shy enough to state their opinions online? I'd understand that if they were saying something immoral, which isn't the case in an Islamic forum. I'm still not getting it.
 
Asiyah3 said:
They can express their inner feelings to people through writing on a computer but not by speaking? So why are they not shy offline if they aren't shy enough to state their opinions online?
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To get the best response... maybe someone introverted or shy who can express their feelings better online, can reply to this thread :).

I found this article coming from an introvert's perspective that can help shed some light :ia:.

But for me, it’s much easier to be outgoing online, than it is offline. I think that’s why I love social media so much.

For example, one of the things that I hate is being in a room full of people where I don’t know anyone. I find it extremely difficult to introduce myself to anyone and talk to them, because I assume they don’t know me and don’t want to know me. It’s a terribly awkward situation for me, and if you’re an introvert you can probably relate.

But if I am in a group of people I don’t know on Twitter, I have little problem striking up a conversation with them. The anxiety over having to in-person introduce myself is all but removed, and as a result, it’s much easier for me to engage with people.

Here’s another example of an awkward offline situation. What if you have just met someone and are talking to them. What do you do when you reach that point where the conversation has died, and you need to politely break it off? I hate that! But again, if I’m online, then I can leave and no one really knows. So again, that awkward feeling is removed.
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http://mackcollier.com/why-introverts-love-social-media/
 
I try to keep a balance though, but most of the time I find 'Me' a different person (in real life)
 
Well, on line and offline are two separate world's. Online is either a tool or an escape.

This forum is something different. It's passionate about the deen. It talks of deen. Mostly politely. Add to that the anonymous aspect. We are talking about the deen anonymously.

There's no one to impress and we don't get interrupted thus can say things truer to ourselves.

I think I am the same if we discussed the same topics whether on line or off. For sure more things could be said in the same time it would take for me to type.

:peace:
 
Asiyah3 said:
They can express their inner feelings to people through writing on a computer but not by speaking? So why are they not shy offline if they aren't shy enough to state their opinions online? I'd understand that if they were saying something immoral, which isn't the case in an Islamic forum. I'm still not getting it.
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Inferiority complex makes someone afraid to express his feeling among people who know his identity because he is afraid then people would insult or look down on him. But forum gives him new identity that different than his identity in the real world. So he feel safe to express his inner feeling because no one know who he is in the real world.

Another cause that makes someone different online is subconscious desire to become "someone who he want to be". In example, someone is always left out in the association. But in his heart, he want to become popular guy. So when he is online he brag to get attention from the others and make him become popular.
 
I think I am quite same both online and offline. Maybe before I wasn´t but life experience has teached me to know myself better as well trust myself more than when I was younger.
 
I believe I am similar enough - actually because a couple of people recognised who I was simply by my posts.

The only difference would be, that in real-life, it would take much longer for me to speak as frankly as this with people I don't know. I am generally a painfully reserved person, although yes when you get to know me then I don't shut up, lol.

However I think the anonymity of a forum means I can be myself more quickly than usual, alhamdulillah, I try to be as genuine as I possibly can iA..
 
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I am the same, equally voiced in both real life and online [emoji39]
 
i speak my mind more ...and i have found here am a lot more political and am more mindful than i normally
IN RL i hardly talk to people and panic a lot more
 
noraina said:
I believe I am similar enough - actually because a couple of people recognised who I was simply by my posts.

The only difference would be, that in real-life, it would take much longer for me to speak as frankly as this with people I don't know. I am generally a painfully reserved person, although yes when you get to know me then I don't shut up, lol.

However I think the anonymity of a forum means I can be myself more quickly than usual, alhamdulillah, I try to be as genuine as I possibly can iA..
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Lol that's exactly me [emoji28]
 
Bhabha said:
I am the same, equally voiced in both real life and online [emoji39]
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Lol I have seen westerners to be more open in expressing their opinions :) I like this thing about them.
And another profile picture of dog :) . Nice pic BTW ;)
 
Online: a little shy in the beginning, nice, friendly, helpful, and then maybe a bit talkative I guess[emoji848]

Offline: crazy, bubbly, talkative, funny, annoying and random [emoji23]

So I guess I am different online a lot more quite than my usual self[emoji1]
Let's be friends[emoji4]
 
I don't think by much.

It is easier to talk. Much faster. Less effort. But we can get interrupted.

Typing, takes too long and I forget my points half the time.

If I feel too lazy to type I don't respond to posts, especially when it is difficult to put those thoughts in writing.

No, I am not a different person on and off. The same values and considerations still guides my action..


:peace:
 
:)well I guess offline I tend to be introverted and not joining group discussions unless I really am friends with a person afterwards I might become very talkative.Online goes same as I don't see any changes regarding my interactions as such so yes it's mostly same.
 
Out of the internet and into reality, dropped like a bomb that went all scattery, charged like a battery i'm off the wall. One minute i'm talking, another i'm running for masjid call.

Stop by the bakery, grab a loaf of bread. Fold my amama rag neatly under my head. Family at home waiting to be fed. Phone start ring off, face go red, papa saying "where you at? momma going bed".

Like is stressful enough, without all the nonsense and bluff, so keep ya head up and and eyes down at your kuffs.

Scimi
 

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