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Originally Posted by Vasago Reno
What baffles me is why people draw such a distinction between what's said online and IRL - as if online reality is pure fiction and doesn't count.
Sorry, but if someone comes across as a genuine ass online, I'd generally anticipate that to be the case IRL.
Rarely have I seen a case where someone who was a jackass on the web turn out to be the opposite in person. The duality is almost impossible to sustain for any length of time.
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because there IS a difference, on the web you cannot see or hear how someone is expressing themselves.
when you are on the phone with someone and someone is trying to be sarcastiv you can pick it up, when someone online is being sarcastic some people will pick up on it and most will not.
it is alot different communicating when you can see, hear, feel someones emotions, the internet does not make that part easy at all.
for example i have been told "you are gay" about a million times over the internet from friends and colleagues, now in regular life i would hear if someone is being sarcastic, yet online it is how i percieve it, maybe he really does not like me and thinks i am gay, it would all be my judgement because there is no emotion backing up the statement.