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Originally Posted by Juho L
Internet forums, like this one, have created a completely new level of communication even on psychological aspect. The forums have created internet personalities. This means that we all play a role behind our more or less anonymous and "faceless" nicks and this role in some cases doesn't correlate even slighlty the real and natural personality, the one that you face on the "real life" face-to-face communication.
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Juho, you are correct with the exception of those of us who have used our real names as our forum logons. In my case it is intentional. I am very consitent, whether in the flesh or via the WWW. If you love or hate me in one medium, you'll love me or hate me in all others.
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We have brilliant forum here. We have bizarre personalities here and the regular visitors have become friends over the time. This is all thanks to the anonymous communication internet offers. It believe that some of us wouldn't have become firends if we would have met in "real life". Our internet personalities have become friends and I hope that someday I meet at least some of my buddies in real life too. At the moment I have only met Matsa briefly when he got thrown out from a gig we were supposed to meet. Hoho.
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Yep, but I think that most of us who get along here on the UAVF would do so in real life just the same, we just would most likely not have the benefit of each other's proximity, and hence never have a chance to become comrades. For some reason your comment above reminded me of the movie "The Breakfast Club" whereas here I always feel more like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
Cheers!
-Alex