This week’s question concerns our online “personas”. While social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook encourage members to use their real identities, a recent study on the usage habits on these sites has shown there’s little correlation between how people act on the Internet and how they are in person. For example, if you’re the type who is overly chatty or arrogant on Twitter, this doesn’t necessarily reflect on how you may act in the real world.
What do you think? Does your online persona accurately reflect who you are in the real world?
Yes or no?
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June 22, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Phil
Sadly, people’s online persona is probably representative of their “real” self, who’d they be if they could get away with that kind of behavior in public life. Probably a good reason corporations will evaluate employees/candidates’ facebook postings.
June 22, 2010 at 2:05 pm
Winston Smith
I agree with Phil. But I also consider this question unworthy of occupying space on TechBriefsInsider. I am not answering the poll.
June 22, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Chris
Who cares? Those are “social” web sites … the term social is misused. By my childhood definition, social is person to person interaction. Web interaction is not person to person. A text message exchange with a person on facebook is NOT a conversation. It is sad that so many have confused an exchange of “text streams” as social interaction. Ordering from the drive thru at a fast food place has more “social interactive value” than twitter or facebook.
June 22, 2010 at 4:01 pm
NAILS
I’d expect this kind of question to be posed to Dilbert and Wally by The Pointy-Haired Boss. Absolutely no value or significance. Please try again.
June 23, 2010 at 12:11 am
Al Gore
My online persona can be seen here….
http://www.toonopedia.com/brezsnez.htm
So you tell me…… does this reflect who I am in the so-called real world?
June 23, 2010 at 11:10 am
Tim
Doe this board represent the contributor’s personality? Well, yes as far as this kind of medium is concerned.
Each medium of interaction, and who we are communicating with reveals different aspects of our personalities.
I do hope that the tone ( and hence revealed personality) of some of the contributors here does not reflect how they interact with their families!
So a bit of our personality, and a bit of the real world.