Are you your true self when your on the forums?
Do you try and give yourself off as an interesting activist when in fact your a boring old fart!?

I slightly change my personality on here to try and not be such a nutcase.....I hope it does'nt come through too much...

(Suggestion: think this thread would be better in the Talk forum)

Hmmm...navigating Ego and Honesty: I think that I express my inner self pretty well...with all the messy conundrums (a woman's mind? ). However, how well that gets through to others has a lot to do with their filters.

You have to be a nutcase to show your true self around here; we are MARTIAL ARTISTS; we NEVER show any weaknesses to anyone.

Depends on which of my 67 distinct personalities you are talking to....

Speak for yourself. I'm no 'martial artist'. I'm martially inclined and artistically challenged.

I'm not nearly as much a wise-guy in person. I listen more than talk (opposite on the forum). I don't push my points of view as aggressivly in person. My forum personality matches my fighting style more than my social personality.

Maybe because I view the forum as a form of full-contact verbal sparring as oppossed to a social gathering with tea and crumpets.

I do take breaks with occational fits of nonsense...this is the same as in person.

Ehhhhh......well, I thought I was different on here than I am off line, but I'm beginning to realize that I warm up to people online the same way I do off. I take awhile, test the waters to see where everybody's at, then slowly begin to reveal my "true" personality. 'Course I'm more private about my personal life when I'm on here (like where I live, my real name, etc.) and I always will be (no offense to anyone here), but otherwise, I don't see a real problem opening up some and getting involved in a conversation of sorts on these boards. So I'm not too different from the way I am off line .

You mean, you really are like Martha Stewart?

I'm a boring old fart both on and off the forum