CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

What's the difference between your online and offline personality?

Using a Fruits Basket analogy, online I'd be like this...

... in that I love talking to people, and tend to feel cheerful.

Offline...

...I tend to be more like Hatori in that I'm reserved, and don't talk much. I've also been known to wear that expressionless face, where people think I'm angry but I'm not....

Offline, people don't like me. At all. For no real reason.

I actually think I'm quite a bit like Alice. At least I think I come off talkative and cheery online, and possibly somewhat insane, though I am rather prone to ranting

Offline, I'm excrutiatingly reserved, and people often misinterpret my quietness. I guess I either come off as an ice queen or the less-than-talkative-doesn't-want-to-be-the-center-of-attention-type. Though once I get to know people, I think my offline and online personalities merge, I just need some time to warm up and get comfortable.

I'm alot the same in real life, but it depends on the situation. When I went to a Christian school a couple years back, I was very shy and quiet, and never felt like I really fit in. But I did much better when I went to an anime club a couple times earlier this year, because I felt like I fit in more, having a strong common interest with the people around me. At the school I went to, the people were too different. They were louder and more strange and goofy, where as I tend to be serious most of the time, and generally more quiet (although I can talk your ear off on something if I get really into it ^^; ). It's hard to explain it all really. I think as I've gotten older I've become less shy, but I'm still more laid back than most people my age it seems. I think if I feel comfortable or close to someone I can be more open and less shy, but good friends are hard to come by, unfortunately. And most people I've known didn't even care about being my friend. But that's how it is. It makes you all the more thankful for the good people I guess.

I'm pretty much the way I am online once you get to know me. I'm a little standoffish with strangers, but once you get to know me. . . I'm very "Osaka."

I'm...me. either way. I'm slightly meaner and more opinionated online, simply because I'm basically anonymous...until I'm mean to some hacker that homes in on my IP adrdess and kills me with a USB cable...

I'm pretty much the same offline as online. I do feel more comfortable typeing then talking sometimes. And will say more then I would when speaking on certain subjects. I do tend to be irratable though offline sometimes. And I get depressed and anxious. But pretty much I am the same.

Offline..im just the same as online. Happy, energetic..and loving...and sometimes loud ^-^;;. I love to talk to people and make them happy. I also like making new friends. Its my thing..I just like all kinds of people. But..like everyone else..I can get pretty mad over something stupid and not worth having a fit about. So in a way..Im like Tohru Honda and Haru Sohma from Fruits basket.

christianfriend wrote:I can get pretty mad over something stupid and not worth having a fit about.

I'm like that too, unfortunately. But most of it's toward my siblings, which I suppose is natural. When I get POed though I usually go too far, which is something I need to work on. ^^;

Offline I have a bit of a quick temper and can be reasonably shy with people I don't know or don't know well. I also find it easier or more comfortable to talk to people over IM, than to some people in real life. Its also easier to write about your faith and what you believe and tell people about it online, then when you are offline.

Hmm.....In my case, the best judges in this matter are CAA members who have met me offline before. *cough* Chloe *cough*

I remember her telling me that I'm a little more quiet and serious offline.

in real life, i'm comfortable enough in a group of people, just so long as i remain quite, and relatively ignored... online, it's usually one extreme or the other. i can be very crazy and random... but mostly i'm intimidated more by groups of people.... like right now, as i look and see how many people are viewing this thread... *sneaks away quietly*

Y'know, I wonder, is anyone actually shy online? Oo, then again, I am the girl who lurked on the CAA for a numerous months, finally joined, posted once or twice, went back to lurking for quite a while and finally started posting with any semblance of regularity late last year

I'm a bit moodier offline. ^_^;;; And I'm a bit shyer, too, but aside from that I think I'm pretty much the same.

I'm pretty quiet offline. I've always been kinda shy...I just need time to warm up to people. Well...most people. Some people just scare me. >.>; I also say a lot of stuff online that I wouldn't really say offline XD

I'm exactly the same offline as I am online. I'm very outgoing and friendly online, and I'm exactly the same way off. I really don't have any differences between my online and offline personality.

im much better at comunitateing with people online, unless i know the person real well

I'm less physical online, but less electronic offline.

cross what dragonshimmer and the_lizardqueen said and you've got me. i'm much more open and honest online than in real life i think. its more of the real me. i say exactly what i think and...hmmm...online, my personality is what i would want it to be like offline. does that make any sense at all? offline i tend to be fairly reserved and quiet around people, except for a chosen few who are close to me. they get to see the real me who is spacey and crazy and will do the most random things at any given moment and it wont take much to get me excited or angry. "normal" people dont know exactly what to make of me from what i've observed and i think i'd like to keep it that way. i also rant. alot. *hysteric random laughter*

In real life I'm a closed book. I don't talk a lot. I pull a lot of funny faces though.

There is no differnce in my case.

My onli

I'm more interspective and aloof as well as shier offline than I am on.It's only after I get to know people real well that I start to be a bit more out going towards them.
I also have a bit of agrophobia that I've had to learn to overcome over the years.
I now can go to Barnes & Nobles,for example and spend the entire afternoon there
by myself with out worrying about what's happened to everyone else.
I don't have any off line relationship,not any that is serious.
My closest relationship is with my cat Tiger.
I'm also a bit lazier and procrastinate more.I constantly try to find the easiest and fastest way to do things.
And I really have problems with telling people how I feel and what I believe.

Yes there is...maybe too much a diff. :\

I'm about the same online as I am in person, only I'm a little bolder online since I dont worry about what anyone will think of me

Offline People Hate me, well most do atleast
Online People Love me, well most do atleast

I'm fairly shy both ways, but less online than off. I'll say more of what I think online. It doesn't seem to work too well for me in person; it comes out all wrong. I think I communicate better in writing; the writing part of my brain thinks more coherently than the speaking part. The delete key might have something to do with that.

I tend to keep people at arm's length, both online and off. I have a hard time making close friends, and even when I do I sometimes have a hard time keeping them, especially when they're not local. So if I seem to blow you off, don't take it personally... it's me, not you.

I can't handle being around a group of people, even people that I like, for long periods of time. I get edgy and tired and can't cope well. But I'm trying to get better about that.

I'm actually a very selfish person. I'm working on that too. Rather, I'm asking God to work on it, as I haven't done a stellar job so far.

And now for something positive... I'm usually willing to help when something needs to be done behind-the-scenes (like washing dishes after a party at a friend's house, for example).

Hmmm...I don't really think there's much of a difference with me. I tend to talk a lot online, but I do that offline too, so I'm pretty much the same. I guess the only difference is that I feel more able to express myself in writing and not words, so maybe it's easier for me. O.o Anyways, that's a very sad story, Volt, and I hope you get appreciated very, very soon! ^_^

:_( *sniffles* hands Volty a plushie.

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