People online don't exist in reality?

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I have met many people online and have really got to know them
However I have never met anyone like the people I meet online in reality
and it's not that I don't look because I do go out and meet new people
so am I just not looking hard enough or is it that people take up a different personality when they are online?

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other(explain in comment) 3
im not looking hard enough 10
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  • myboyfriendsbitch
    11 years ago

    People online are weird, shunned and judged by the offline. They hide in corners and don't speak. Look in corners for the ones you want to meet.

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  • keeping_up_with_da_kids
    11 years ago

    My life is the internet so I am no different.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    People like to think that Batman doesn't exist in reality.
    But I do.

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      Part of me really believes you. :)

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  • KeddersPrincess
    11 years ago

    It's easier to communicate online because you don't have to look tha person in the eye. Truth is, you don't really know them, and they don't really know you. If your relationship falls out, you can just pretend to be a different person. You don't have to be yourself and they don't have to be themselves. It's far more comfortable meeting someone online than in real life. I'm sure this is very normal.

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  • theytookthisone
    11 years ago

    They probably act a different way in reality or keep to themselves. I do both

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  • Unimportant
    11 years ago

    In real life I wear a preventive "angry frown"-mask, in order to make people stay away from me.

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    11 years ago

    Well I'm pretty weird on and off line, my alternative look scares a lot of people off apparently. XD

    I think the major difference is that here we have a little more time to think out what we're saying, so we're able to come across better. This can make it easy for people to be fake. It can also make it easy for people to be more genuine.

    I prefer the latter. :)

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    • dappled
      11 years ago

      I don't think you're weird at all. And I'm not just saying that because your profile contains perhaps my favourite line from perhaps my favourite comedian.

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    I'm the same offline but my famously screwy body language confuses people and some of them don't give me a chance or listen to what I'm actually saying. In that sense, I appear different offline, but I'm not. The people who do give me a chance (i.e., my friends) would know me on this site instantly and say that I'm the same in both mediums. I.e., sometimes annoying.

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    • anti-hero
      11 years ago

      Sometimes annoying and very rape-able it seems.

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        Ahh, it seems to happen about once a year that people want to insert something inside me. Your time will come. :P

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        • anti-hero
          11 years ago

          When you put it like that, I kind of hope not.

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  • saddenedunicorn
    11 years ago

    People are more themselves online than in person. In person, people are stiff and they try too hard to be perceived as perfect so they end up being the opposite of who they really are. You really get to know people online more than in person.

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  • Wüstenfuchs
    11 years ago

    The anonymity of being online lets people be both more open with their opinions and quirks, and also to be someone they're normally not. So I guess it kinda goes both ways. I'm asocial offline, so I get my socializing done online. But I'm positive that if I were more outgoing, I would be exactly the same as my online personality. 60% positive. >_>

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  • Austalien
    11 years ago

    Your just realising the truth of what people are thinking, Off course we all wear masks in society i am trying to enjoy the little freedom that i have and don't want to get locked up so control my impulses ^_^

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  • insidious22
    11 years ago

    Being on-line is like going into Peoples Minds In my opinion...Its all Feelings thoughts etc.. fun tho...

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  • zorpoxtheconqueror
    11 years ago

    So I guess it's just that I need to get to know people better? right?

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    I am way more open online than I am in person. There are only two people my real life that I am 100% open with.

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