Comments on: What is in an Identity? http://extradot.org/2008/05/14/what-is-in-an-identity/ Extradot's Official Headquarters Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:18:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Seroph http://extradot.org/2008/05/14/what-is-in-an-identity/#comment-11 Seroph Fri, 16 May 2008 00:55:33 +0000 http://extradot.org/?p=44#comment-11 I agree with you. I do want to clarify that for me Seroph is the identity I choose to have online much as a person will choose to have an identity at work that differs from that of their personal life. As for the apprehension on content I wrote and journal for years and only after years of hiding it did I feel like I could share my works with any other person. I guess that is where I have to admit to being cautions to a fault when it comes to sharing my thoughts and beliefs. I agree with you. I do want to clarify that for me Seroph is the identity I choose to have online much as a person will choose to have an identity at work that differs from that of their personal life. As for the apprehension on content I wrote and journal for years and only after years of hiding it did I feel like I could share my works with any other person. I guess that is where I have to admit to being cautions to a fault when it comes to sharing my thoughts and beliefs.

]]> By: like_a_god http://extradot.org/2008/05/14/what-is-in-an-identity/#comment-10 like_a_god Fri, 16 May 2008 00:17:04 +0000 http://extradot.org/?p=44#comment-10 I see you! Sorta... I think that many of use that have blogged and continue to do so have asked the questions you seem to be asking and struggled with the same issue. When I first encountered online relationships it was in the very early part of the internet on BBS's. These networks were smaller and not totally linked but they garnered the same sort of issues. As for personalities, I too find myself living something of a different personality on line. The personality is still me and I don't pretend it isn't but there are aspects that are either amplified or omitted depending upon the context of where I am posting or commenting. For instance, here and on my blog I would probably offer more in the way of discussion than I would on the Playstation underground forums. I've also noticed that MMORPG's have a different feel and type of context than online blogs and that some people treat such things as more of a game than others... Hence, you have the asshats that trouble people in MMORPG but would never be so blatantly rude in real life to the person in front of them. In my own blog I've made the decision not to limit my readers by my own fears of their reactions but, more often than not, I try my best to hide the identities of those I'm speaking of or the places I mention. Sure, I've decided to out myself online, so to speak but that doesn't give me the right to place the same assumptions on others... However, I do dread having my mother find the blog... so, I am not completely unaware of the anxiety that blogging can cause LOL I see you! Sorta…

I think that many of use that have blogged and continue to do so have asked the questions you seem to be asking and struggled with the same issue. When I first encountered online relationships it was in the very early part of the internet on BBS’s. These networks were smaller and not totally linked but they garnered the same sort of issues.

As for personalities, I too find myself living something of a different personality on line. The personality is still me and I don’t pretend it isn’t but there are aspects that are either amplified or omitted depending upon the context of where I am posting or commenting. For instance, here and on my blog I would probably offer more in the way of discussion than I would on the Playstation underground forums. I’ve also noticed that MMORPG’s have a different feel and type of context than online blogs and that some people treat such things as more of a game than others… Hence, you have the asshats that trouble people in MMORPG but would never be so blatantly rude in real life to the person in front of them.

In my own blog I’ve made the decision not to limit my readers by my own fears of their reactions but, more often than not, I try my best to hide the identities of those I’m speaking of or the places I mention. Sure, I’ve decided to out myself online, so to speak but that doesn’t give me the right to place the same assumptions on others…

However, I do dread having my mother find the blog… so, I am not completely unaware of the anxiety that blogging can cause LOL

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