Whispersecret
Clandestine Sex-pressionist
- Joined
- Feb 17, 2000
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On another thread someone stated, “...I am assuming you all ARE real people, but I am quite sure that most of you aren't the way you portray yourselves on this board.”
I don’t know about all of you, but I don't“portray” myself as anything but myself.
Granted, in “real life” I am a little different. The Internet acts a little like alcohol on me. It loosens me up a little:
I do not talk as easily about sex as I do here. Does anyone? Nor am I able I talk about my feelings and emotions as readily as I do on the BB. (I have always been much more able to express myself on paper than verbally.) And since I’m married, the only place I flirt is here.
The last difference between the Real Me and the Board Me is that sometimes the--for lack of a better word--distance that the Internet provides sometimes brings out a nasty side to me that never ever comes out anywhere else. I have been very caustic in a few posts and said things I would never ever say to a person to their face, because I do not like confrontation of any type.
With those few exceptions, the person you see on the board is Me. I don't purposely put on a facade for people here. As Laurel pointed out in some other thread, I may withhold certain parts of myself, but I do that in real life too. I act differently around my 86 year old grandmother than I do around my best friend.
What about all of you? I'm sure I'm not going to get replies like, "I try very hard to make myself look a certain way so people will like me." But do you detect differences in your two selves, so to speak? Have you noted a loss of inhibition here that allows you to be more flirty, cruel, open, what have you? Or are you exactly like you are in real life?
I don’t know about all of you, but I don't“portray” myself as anything but myself.
Granted, in “real life” I am a little different. The Internet acts a little like alcohol on me. It loosens me up a little:
I do not talk as easily about sex as I do here. Does anyone? Nor am I able I talk about my feelings and emotions as readily as I do on the BB. (I have always been much more able to express myself on paper than verbally.) And since I’m married, the only place I flirt is here.
The last difference between the Real Me and the Board Me is that sometimes the--for lack of a better word--distance that the Internet provides sometimes brings out a nasty side to me that never ever comes out anywhere else. I have been very caustic in a few posts and said things I would never ever say to a person to their face, because I do not like confrontation of any type.
With those few exceptions, the person you see on the board is Me. I don't purposely put on a facade for people here. As Laurel pointed out in some other thread, I may withhold certain parts of myself, but I do that in real life too. I act differently around my 86 year old grandmother than I do around my best friend.
What about all of you? I'm sure I'm not going to get replies like, "I try very hard to make myself look a certain way so people will like me." But do you detect differences in your two selves, so to speak? Have you noted a loss of inhibition here that allows you to be more flirty, cruel, open, what have you? Or are you exactly like you are in real life?