The "real world" vs "internet world"

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In reply to: - it IS just the internet. At the end of the time you spend here you are still going to leave your chair and live a life in the real world. not saying nothing about the quote just that it is one of many times I hear this.. this thing like "real world""internet".Yea I know wut ur saying mist... but my question i guess is why do people call it.. well the real world and internet. because i'm sitting at a desk typing instead of talkign on a phone does that mean i'm not real? i dk.. i just don't get it i guess. y is the internet not in the "real world" the people typing into these posts are very much real. I dk.. to me it's like when some one says something like real world vs. internet world it's like there saying becuz I 'm reading theses words and not hearing them ur not real.I mean what’s so not real about the internet? well I mean what makes the real world ......urggg I dk how to explain wut i mean. I guess.. like real world people come here for real world problems right?? Real people try to help them. Right?? so wut is NOT real about the internet.?

What I think people are saying is that all worries and inhabitions go out the window online.

It is a figure of speech for how people act. So people will be online and act like king of the world or really tough, but then when walking down the street or on the phone they are someone completely different.

I personally do my best to act as I do in person and on the phone as I do on the internet.

It is just different personalities for in person, real life, and internet, even though they are both real and happening and real people are doing the typing.

If people lie, there is no way to tell if they are unless they trip up themselves.

i guess that's y i don't get it. i am the same as i am NOT online. at the same time i'm more open online. in person ..... i don't talk at all. very very shy. I see that part of it. i see the part of people hidding and like hot pants said lieing) i thoguht a freind was a friend untill a year latter found out he was a pedo. and not a guy my age but a 50 year old dude... but then does't the same things happen in the so called "real world" i know some one that is a master of lies (YAYAY she's in fuckign jail now!!! woot woot!) so to me the two worlds (as some say) are nothign but one. maybe i'm stupid for thinking that the way some one is online would be the same face to face. i dk.. maybe it's just the term real world... to me the internet is part of the real world. i have a friend that lives in the UK. (most all of u know who i'm talkign about) he's my friend..not my internet friend (i have heard that one too) but he's my firend and a close friend at that. but then i am a guy that thinks this joke is funny as hell... what do u call a dead blond in a closet????...Last years hide and seek champion!

I think that because no-one can see you, it's easier to get away on the Net with pretending to be better-looking, younger, a different gender, etc, than you are. It's also easier to lie without its showing in your face.The fact that the communication is typed, and slower than speech, means there is more time to think about how it will be received, so it tends to be more formal and more considered.I try to be honest on the Net at all times. But I am all too aware that I am a less nice person in real life than I appear to be on the Net.

Good point

Well, when I'm on the internet, I am the real me. I pretend to be someone I'm not in "real life". I have to pretend to be happy and to enjoy every part of life cause I don't like them knowing that there is something wrong. Thats why I cam here originally, I needed to talk to people and be myself but at the same time be completely anonymous.The only problem is that I have gotten to know lots of people here and now I'm in the same boat again. I have a good few problems at the moment but I don't feel that I can say them here. I've lost my anonymity and I don't feel that I can post my problems or questions anymore.

Sweetie, what I was trying to say was that you can neither prove nor disprove what people say on here. You can become anyone or anything that you want because the chance of someone finding out is pretty small so I don't see why people don't take what other's say with a grain of salt. Does that make sense to you, hun? Be friendly and talk but don't take everyone at their word because it could be false. There's nothing here that you should let get to you.

hey get back to homework....geez woman, lolIt is hard to tell and you cannot tell, but I tend to trust those I supposedly know to be that way in person.

Kiss my butt, Jon!!

when and where/

hey, come one now!! Leave the kinky stuff for the masturbation forum!!

Walken ~ Now sounds good to me. Bob ~ Do you want in on the action too? lol

no bob in this...he is just a crowd...

I would but the new Mod, Godzilla, will give out to us if we do...

Bah! Bring it on! Not to disrupt fun...but CR125...this banter back and forth between Walken, bob, and myself is a perfect example. We know it'll never happen..but we're having fun anyway and not taking it too seriously.

We're not?

thats right am I am the new mod! bitch.

LOL. Well....I'M not taking it too seriously. I'm just having some fun.

Please don't call me a bitch, it tickles.