Online identity.

After going back and finding every name change I've ever requested, I have realized that I suffer from a major identity crisis.

Spoiler: list of names that have no relation to each other.

Jayn
Pop Tart
ЅЎRINGЭ
Ms. Jayn Vi Brittania
Lovely-chan
Κιαіяε†сяоѕѕ
Jayney
Ai Enma
Lovely❤Chan
Lady Beatrice
ℒєη кαgαмιηє ★
ℳαяια Uѕнιяσмιуα ♥
кenny
Mrѕ. Claus
тяαgєɖу ❥

There has to be someone out there who's worse than me though. Like Reptar.

But even with this discovery, I have realized that I always come back to Jayn after a short while. Which lead me to wondering how people feel when they're referred to as their main name? When people call you by your internet name, do you even notice? I only feel weird when people call me Jayn if I think about it. Otherwise, it feels pretty natural.

Also, does your online personality differ from your real life one? Which one do you find more accurate?

I'm usually more honest about things on the Internet, than in person. There's a lot I hold back from saying face to face with people, so I'd say my online identity is more accurate reading of me as a person than the physical world is. ​

 

I'm guessing they're about the same because on the internet I'm usually in a group and on website's (like this one) not everybody knows me.

 

My online personality is way different from my real life one. In real life I'm actually quiet and shy, unless I'm with a group of friends and even then I only say something if someone else prompts me to.

And only one person called me Nash in real life, and after a while I didn't notice it unless they called me by my real name, to which I'd say "Who?" because I wasn't used to hearing it after so long.

 

I feel like there is a definite separation between on-line me and real me. We're the same person, it's not like I have a split personality or anything, but I feel like a different person when I can use my handle of "clawtooth" as a shield. That's one of the problems I sometimes have with facebook, because it breaches the barrier between the mundane world and the digital one (this is starting to sound like digimon). I never know what will happen if I post or comment on facebook because it is digital-me making a statement for real-me. I'm not sure which is more accurate because I think they show different sides to me. Online, I'm not really afraid to tell people what I think and to fight for what I think is correct, but in real life, I have a quieter side and a more bitting wit I would say. I don't think either is fake, because I still feel personally like I would like to be like online me in real life and vice-versa, but there is something about the annonymity afforded by being online which allows you to transcend that.

That's my £0.0123 worth.

 

There was an occasion where I had a real life friend that was registered on here and a pretty active poster. We were all giving out nicknames and she suggested Misty for me, and people called me that for a little while. It felt really odd, I just started to tell people to call me ....
Likewise, when people online call me .../whatever, it feels weird too. I guess it ties into the question you're asking about the boundary between online and "real life" personalities we have. I think we've had threads about this before, but whatevs, yours is a bit different.

I do feel a big disconnect between my online & my life self, but I also feel the difference between who I am in my head and around people I'm very very close to & my public life. I have problems socializing, I have major foot-in-mouth syndrome sometimes, and when it's not that I'm just incredibly quiet, trying to avoid saying the wrong thing. I think myself around... like my family and my sisters is pretty close to my online self, though.

I'd like to find a balance between the three, but... well, it's easier said than done.

 

I think that my online personality and my real life personality are pretty much the same. It is sometimes easier to say things or give opinions on the internet, much easier than in face to face conversations in some cases, but I act the same way in real life as I do online for the most part.

 

I actually don't mind when people call me by my internet name/real name. Well, sometimes it can get a little confusing but many of my friends like to call me by my internet name in real life.
Online, I guess I'm a little more talkative than I am in real life. I can be pretty shy in real life and online too, but sometimes I'm not.
For me, it's just a lot easier to be heard online than in real life, albeit it feels like I'm the same person both ways.

 

I wouldn't mind being called my Internet name (Which is actually not this, I had no clue I'd be here this long to really care at first) I would reply with a smile and call the other person their E-name too perhaps.
Theres not much of a difference, I'm as lame,Random and weird as I Am in IRL.

 

:lolface:

When I first joined the site, my online self and public self had clear distinctions. Online I was more active and go-getting, unafraid of saying things that would seem embarassing to others, while the public me was cast aside in doubt and self deprecation. But now...I think they've both melded to the point where I'm the same both online and offline (with a couple exceptions).

And personally, it's a bit strange at first when someone calls me Alex online, but as long as it's consistent, it doesn't really bug me. :B (Well, consistently said by a friend). And publically, my best friend calls me Plums sometimes, which I also don't mind.

 

I'm not very social on forums besides for the one-liners, jokes and the occasional sarcasm, which pretty much sums up what I'm like outside, too.

 

I respond to several different names with different things. I am a different person behind each one, if only subtly. Someone calling me by one sets me into the standard that they know me by under that name, and another by a different name, and so on. I would say that if someone called me by my online name or one of my online names in real life, I would be very surprised. I don't usually let them mix so easily, and I prefer real names when I can use them both online and offline.

 

I would say I'm about the same. Maybe more open and crazier online, but still. I would die of embarrassment if a real life friend called me by this username. Even "Fire" would be weird. But I guess...I'd get used to it...it'd just be weird.

 

Dude, I'm cool online and off. I'm just that awesome.

 

Unintelligible Incoherence. Poorly articulated wording.

Identity is a watery term. Profiles are indefinite, as viewpoints are subjective. Vantage is seldom, as we tend to cloud our vision. Your self, and how others see you; where are the boundaries set, which perception is truest to you, and most importantly, who are you? Ruminating over this is folly, as it will only lead you into a circle of meaningless prattle.

Identity crisis, self exploitation, person annihilation. We are who we are. Trying to define yourself will only further turmoil.

I have been meaning to start a blog on my ne'er ending journey, my voyage across the stream that we call reality. It meanders and it winds, it fluctuates and it parts . Pardon me for my senseless ramble, I am feeling particularly dissociative today.

Please ignore this post.

 

Well, for me, I kind of sepearte my real life from my online life. I guess that's why I don't get weirded out when someone calls me tummer on the internet or while I'm in chatrooms. I know that I'm tummer on here, and I'm me in my real life. However, there is a time when my internet life and real life mix, but at that time, I trust someone enough to be a real friend and give them my real name. They don't call me tummer anymore, but by my real name (and sometimes they give me theirs). Like with the relationship I'm in; we don't call ourselves by our screen names, but by our given names. However, on the forums, when we discuss something there, I will call her by her username (just to not create confusion) and it'll feel a bit awkward for me to use that.

As for my personalities, I would say that they are the same person. I try not to make myself seem too different from myself from real life. The only difference is that I'm more outgoing on the internet then I am in real life. In either setting, I talk like a nerd, sound like a dork, but love like a Christian. :D

 

Gah! The pain! The terrible pain!

Of reading this post. What were you trying to say, again?

 

I cannot even recall. It was to be ignored with reason, you know.

 

Fair enough. But I think that it presents the point rather well, in retrospect. We all act differently when in different moods, like you do in yours... And that mood showed us a bit more about you, as a member on this forum.

I apologize for picking on you. I am sorry.

But I still do not get your meaning. Could you clarify it for me? Please?

 

Regretting that post so much. That's alright.

 

Emphasis that I was deep in dissociation and slightly paranoid while writing that, so much of it was incoherent and messy. Expressing what I had meant will be arduous, as such a train of thought is difficult to follow. Entirely incomprehensible, I think. I may get back to this later...

Cannot formulate how to describe it, explain it...