Do you guys ever wonder....

CaptJRackham

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....of all the members that you guys interact with, how many of those people are actually who they say they are?
 
I'm not a Biblical giant survivor of Noah's Flood.

Nor am I Henry VIII

<-- even if I have played him in public.
 
I take people at face value online. At least for the most part. I will call bullshit once in a while if someone is just being stupid about it but otherwise if I think they are lying I will just roll my eyes and not worry about it. It doesn't change anything unless they go overboard with it. Worrying about whether or not someone is a Navy SEAL or cop or lawyer or super hero is a waste of time.
 
I'm not who I am, and I don't expect others to be what they are.

The only thing I really am is a cat.
 
I'm not a medieval blood-thirsty witch who disappeared from her dungeon on the night before her execution as a serial killer.

I'm just an alt of oggbashan.
 
I had breakfast with wife and daughters today, and as we talked it occurred to me I talk like I write, and say pretty much the same things I say here.

A black co-worker said of me, YOURE AS WHITE AS BREAD AND HAVE A TRANSPARENT WRAPPER. That's me.

The soul of my ethics is: PEOPLE DESERVE THE REAL DEAL SO THEYRE NOT SURPRISED. Even a fuggin snake comes with a rattle. Honesty is all I owe you.
 
....of all the members that you guys interact with, how many of those people are actually who they say they are?

The people here are what they say, not who they say they are. We are all just words on an screen.

There are a few people whose ordinary life does not match the face they try to present to us, and some are better at it than others. Some desperately want to be the person they pretend to be and some desperately want to feel smarter than the people they are trying to fool.
 
No. What is the point in doing so?

You are all your characters, likely far closer to the real you than I would ever see of you in first person if I were to ever do that in the first place.
 
No. What is the point in doing so?

You are all your characters, likely far closer to the real you than I would ever see of you in first person if I were to ever do that in the first place.
Agreed - one person I've met IRL but know on another board was a) disappointed that I preferred their backchannel voice b) surprised that their front channel voice wasn't thought funnier and c) somewhat at a loss as to why (unlike them) my posting style was far more what you see is what you get.

Be fake if you want, wear as many masks as you damn well please, but don't complain that people insist on trying to pull them off if whichever disguise you use is inconsistent or an insultingly obvious fake.
 
The people here are what they say, not who they say they are. We are all just words on an screen.

There are a few people whose ordinary life does not match the face they try to present to us, and some are better at it than others. Some desperately want to be the person they pretend to be and some desperately want to feel smarter than the people they are trying to fool.

Somehow how you managed to relate posters online persona to their personal life. How exactly do you know what a poster's personal (ordinary) life is like?
 
Somehow how you managed to relate posters online persona to their personal life. How exactly do you know what a poster's personal (ordinary) life is like?

Most of us play multiple roles in real life e.g.

Parent; child; partner; office/work colleague; student; friend; enemy etc.

In each role we behave differently.

So which role is appropriate to our Lit persona?

The Literotica one, of course. :rolleyes:
 
I did take that picture on my last trip to Hell to visit your mum. She gives mad good head.
 
....of all the members that you guys interact with, how many of those people are actually who they say they are?

No, I don't waste my time. At one time I wondered about a few, but no longer.

As far as I'm concerned the only people that are who they say they are are those I've actually spoken to.

Ishmael
 
I'm sure that there might be people who create fake personnas. But that they are more likely to post in the AM pics. or other forums.

But I don't think that there are many regular GB posters who do so. No one could sustain that sort of pretense for long, and from my pov, what most GBers said about themselves was pretty congruent with their posting style .

Some posters might distort or withhold a few bio details (for fun, to avoid being recognized and so on).
But as long as they're not doing so in order to take advantage of people, does it really matter?
 
Can't say that I care one way ot the other. I'm interested in what people have to say, much more than who they are. Identity is easy to fake. Ideas, not as much.
 
Sure

I try my best to believe people but it's alright with me if someone lies because, they have a chance to be who they really want to be. Only small lies that are negligible work ^^.
 
Never, they can be whoever they wish to be, here online or in life.

Some days I have a hard enough just being myself ;)
 
Most lack the integrity to say what they think to people when they are face-to-face, and then write a lot of crap online. I only know a handful here who are pretty much who they represent. The rest, who gives a fuck?
 
Most lack the integrity to say what they think to people when they are face-to-face, and then write a lot of crap online. I only know a handful here who are pretty much who they represent. The rest, who gives a fuck?

Over the past ten years, I've met about a dozen people from lit. They were all very nice and very much as they appear on line. Of course, this is a self selecting sample.

There are a lot of people here who will never reveal themselves to anyone, but their own alts.
 
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