Do you think it's easier to behave naturally on the computer, as opposed to meeting in real life? (71)
Whenever you are more comfortable that is a good thing. I only disagree with your statement that the net is a screening filter. The anonymity makes it easier for undiserables to infiltrate.
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EM!!! You made it!! 
I enjoy meeting people both ways. If the environment is a good thats all that matters for me.
I enjoy meeting people both ways. If the environment is a good thats all that matters for me.
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For me, I work ten hour days, 4 days a week. When I get home at the end of the work day, I'm not going anywhere. My days off are reserved for what needs to be done, cleaning, laundry and such.
I'm not into the clubbing scene and if I'm going to be doing any drinking, I'd rather be home. Don't drink much anyways.
I do tend to be somewhat more open online than outside my own walls.
If I'm not bouncing between here and Facebook, I'm playing World of Warcraft.
Welcome to the forums
I'm not into the clubbing scene and if I'm going to be doing any drinking, I'd rather be home. Don't drink much anyways.
I do tend to be somewhat more open online than outside my own walls.
If I'm not bouncing between here and Facebook, I'm playing World of Warcraft.
Welcome to the forums
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Emerold99: I'm curious as to the state of peoples minds when it comes to meeting other people on the internet. Do people feel safer within their own walls when meeting others? If yes, why?My response is yes. I behave more naturally at home in my own comfort zone. I am capable of being a socially interractive person when I'm not home, but my preference is to meet people on the net as I don't really have outside activities that could relate to me meeting many other people. Would I be socially inhibited when meeting a person in real life that I'd met on the net? Absolutely not as I also consider the net a screening filter for undesirables :P
HI..I AM COMFORTABLE IN BOTH SITUATIONS..BUT I FIND HERE IT IS SAFE..THERE ARE NO EMOTIONAL ISSUES WITH REJECTION FOR EXAMPLE ...DELETE WITH A BUTTON...THERE,S NO ENERGY INVOLVED..I CAN DO THIS IN MY PJ,S
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not for me jv as I sit in the chat room and make friends that way. I'm not about to go and meet a stranger that I've only conversed with via inbox mail. It's a baby step process for me. Meet people, make friends, chat with them via videolink, and meet eventually.
It doesn't happen overnight :)
It doesn't happen overnight :)
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Easier for me because in person I am very shy.
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NETTE !!!! /hugs
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oohhhhhhh a wow player. I was a wow player. Played on Kalecgos for Horde. Undead priest.
Also had some Alliance shammy on Dalvengyr.
Was a damned fantastic healer and fanatical raider! Even raided 2 realms (not simultaneously). Log off one raid, switch sides and rdy to raid the next.
What toons do you have?
Also had some Alliance shammy on Dalvengyr.
Was a damned fantastic healer and fanatical raider! Even raided 2 realms (not simultaneously). Log off one raid, switch sides and rdy to raid the next.
What toons do you have?
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very true eumundi :) and noone is any the wiser, hey :)
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cincity: Easier for me because in person I am very shy.
SAME HERE
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I keep people at a distance and prefer to meet them in a public place where there are witnesses. you really never know what you might be setting yourself up for 
..seriously
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same to me both on and offline
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For me... I find it easier to be me in real life... Here on the computer its not as real... if communication is 85% body language, then perhaps the reason people take such umbrage to innocent posts, then I reckon its to do with lacking the forsight of seeing the whole package.
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Emerold99: I'm curious as to the state of peoples minds when it comes to meeting other people on the internet. Do people feel safer within their own walls when meeting others? If yes, why?My response is yes. I behave more naturally at home in my own comfort zone. I am capable of being a socially interractive person when I'm not home, but my preference is to meet people on the net as I don't really have outside activities that could relate to me meeting many other people. Would I be socially inhibited when meeting a person in real life that I'd met on the net? Absolutely not as I also consider the net a screening filter for undesirables :P
I much prefer and find it easier meeting people in real life. Usually, I can weigh up if they're an ok type of person by the look of them, body language and the way they talk in a few minutes as opposed to reading endless drivel online and also listening to endless drivel on the phone. Then meeting up and realising it really was endless twoddle. 
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Zellarrone1: I much prefer and find it easier meeting people in real life. Usually, I can weigh up if they're an ok type of person by the look of them, body language and the way they talk in a few minutes as opposed to reading endless drivel online and also listening to endless drivel on the phone. Then meeting up and realising it really was endless twoddle.
same here
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online today!I am quite comfortable in most settings. I am the one in the store that smiles and speaks to everyone. I don't know what is wrong with me
But people speak back and are usually nice/ on line I am more cautious I have no body language to read and see so I reserve myself on line
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online today!Zellarrone1: I much prefer and find it easier meeting people in real life. Usually, I can weigh up if they're an ok type of person by the look of them, body language and the way they talk in a few minutes as opposed to reading endless drivel online and also listening to endless drivel on the phone. Then meeting up and realising it really was endless twoddle.
I should of read your post first. 
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lucynad: same here
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Happygolucky4u: I should of read your post first.
We must look very approachable. I always get people talking to me and even telling me their live stories after about two minutes Most are nice too, just like week I was struggling to tie a plastic bag full of food on my bike when a guy offered me a spare rack he had, aw ------ This poll is Archived ------
Zellarrone1: We must look very approachable. I always get people talking to me and even telling me their live stories after about two minutes Most are nice too, just like week I was struggling to tie a plastic bag full of food on my bike when a guy offered me a spare rack he had, aw
I've got a spare rack for ya zilla
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It's easier to say what you think online, forums than in person, because online is randomly directed and you can always sign out.
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cristina: It's easier to say what you think online, forums than in person, because online is randomly directed and you can always sign out.
hi hit and run, tactics...nar....it,s nicer to talk to a real person, then a cyber person...jmo.------ This poll is Archived ------
trueheart1941: hi hit and run, tactics...nar....it,s nicer to talk to a real person, then a cyber person...jmo.
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Emerold99: I'm curious as to the state of peoples minds when it comes to meeting other people on the internet. Do people feel safer within their own walls when meeting others? If yes, why?My response is yes. I behave more naturally at home in my own comfort zone. I am capable of being a socially interractive person when I'm not home, but my preference is to meet people on the net as I don't really have outside activities that could relate to me meeting many other people. Would I be socially inhibited when meeting a person in real life that I'd met on the net? Absolutely not as I also consider the net a screening filter for undesirables :P
Yep. I think communicating on the internet in large amounts maladjusts people towards real life relations. When talking online you lose most of the subtleties of human interaction, tone of voice, body language, facial expessions etc, this can only result in a more wooden and robotic individual.
Yet they said a similar thing about television and video games, perhaps technology demands that people become less interesting.
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Im the same person on or off line. Sometimes controversial always gobby.
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I behave more naturally at home in my natural environment too, and that is why I tend to meet people there quite often, for a second or subsequent meeting. I think meeting in public places puts undue stress on people who are already stressed from meeting anyway.
Online, I tend to take people at face value. It is only with a meeting in real life, that I tend to decipher who they might really be.
Online, I tend to take people at face value. It is only with a meeting in real life, that I tend to decipher who they might really be.
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venusinsilk: Im the same person on or off line. Sometimes controversial always gobby.
hi..V....i dont thik..your gobby...but there,s the point i,m am trying to make.how does a person know ,for sure how you are ,unlessyou meet that person in the flesh....so to speak...?????.....cyber/real. ------ This poll is Archived ------
trueheart1941: hi..V....i dont thik..your gobby...but there,s the point i,m am trying to make.how does a person know ,for sure how you are ,unlessyou meet that person in the flesh....so to speak...?????.....cyber/real.
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I am the same on here as in 'real life' 
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Do you think it's easier to behave naturally on the computer, as opposed to meeting in real life?(Vote Below)
My response is yes. I behave more naturally at home in my own comfort zone. I am capable of being a socially interractive person when I'm not home, but my preference is to meet people on the net as I don't really have outside activities that could relate to me meeting many other people. Would I be socially inhibited when meeting a person in real life that I'd met on the net? Absolutely not as I also consider the net a screening filter for undesirables :P