How do you behave on the internet?

[Emily]

I behave like a dick. 

 

O.o ... with Pedobear avatar?

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

I stand firm on the concept that respect is earned, not given. I'm also honest to a fault and it seems not very tactful, given how it seems, to some people, I'm just trolling if I give my honest opinions on things. I could choose my words better, but I don't find much value in sugar coating my words.

 

Of course I can also just be an asshole, but that's true of everybody on the Internet.

[mkprovince]

I stand firm on the concept that respect is earned, not given. I'm also honest to a fault and it seems not very tactful, given how it seems, to some people, I'm just trolling if I give my honest opinions on things. I could choose my words better, but I don't find much value in sugar coating my words.

 

Of course I can also just be an asshole, but that's true of everybody on the Internet.

 

Bloody epic statements!

[Ark of Truth]

Don't derail the thread people......

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

I've been in several "Internet relationships" as they were. Generally around the same age, and I act the same way I do in person as I do on the Internet. And none of them lasted very long; distance was a factor (jealousy on my part killed one, on the part of the other party killed one), but I've also found that my... way of talking and thinking rubs a lot of people the wrong way, long term.

 

I honestly don;t think this would have been any different if you replaced the Internet with phone calls and letters. But it has pretty much put me off to long distance relationships; I think they're nothing but trouble, long term.

[Ark of Truth]

Going to let this go until the 3rd July then I will be finishing and publishing the conclusion from the results

[kingkong]

i can not say that my behavior has not changed in internet     just for the fact that i need to watch out my words more than speeking with freinds directly ; the keyboard is altering the meaning more like a filter and what is written stays.     But i am what i am and my behavior does not change.

 

no i have not considered any relationship as for me internet is more like a unisex i need more sound, image and physical attitudes.

and second thing i have everything outside i am living in a town with a lot of people not alone in an isleland.

 

i have never realy thought about dating but i stay open mind if it hapends it does not bother me to do 1km or 10 000 km earth is my planet.

 

the age never disturbe me when it is not childish behavior and not under eighteen   and it is always rewarding to meet and know other people.

[Rayblue]

As far as trying to gain a relationship, I'd rather have it in the flesh, F2F.

[Tea Sheriff]

This is a pretty interest subject for me so I'll answer as honest as I can.

 

-I'm pretty shy in general and it spills over on the internet. It's hard being open when I'm constantly worried about upsetting someone. I also try to keep my opinion to myself as much as possible, I usually end up feeling pretty crappy whenever I share how I feel about anything. I wish I was more outgoing in life as well as the net. I'm very self conscious about everything I do, yet I want to make friends and meet new people. It's horrible.

 

-I have gone on dates with people I've met online, but I've yet to have a positive experience with it. All of the people I've met thus far have ended up being liars and have hurt my opinion of online dating and dating in general. I do believe it's an amazing way to meet people though.

 

-I don't think I would be comfortable with a long distant relationship. I have a hard time trusting that someone would stay faithful to me without being physically near me, (though people will be unfaithful regardless of how near or far they are.)

 

Thanks for the interesting questions!

[AgentChicken]

This is a pretty interest subject for me so I'll answer as honest as I can.

 

-I'm pretty shy in general and it spills over on the internet. It's hard being open when I'm constantly worried about upsetting someone. I also try to keep my opinion to myself as much as possible, I usually end up feeling pretty crappy whenever I share how I feel about anything. I wish I was more outgoing in life as well as the net. I'm very self conscious about everything I do, yet I want to make friends and meet new people. It's horrible.

 

This.

 

I'm a Quiet and Shy Individual in real life, I'm usually a very kind individual and love to talk when people lend their time to listen to me, But most of the time i listen to most people and would rather shut my gob and listen to other people talk and help them out then help myself. I'm like this On the Internet, I usually keep my nose out of everyone else's business and only talk when spoken to or want to contribute to something. but When People need help i'm 100% there for them. But if someone gives me the cold finger and "Trolls" me i just politely tell them to eat a dick and i block them.

 

I'm Kinda like a Clam, im a hard person to open up to, but when you get me to open up you will find a person with a Fantastic and outgoing Personality...Kinda like a pearl???

[Emily]

One doesn't need to conform their ingenuity based from internet behaviors.

The real life human psychology and behavior are not as naive as how we would react on internet.

 

In the end, It'll came down to profit or profitless relationship. Then behaving like nothing has happen, on the internet. In the next day. With lots of irresponsible smiley and hearts text messages on user profile.

 

<3 <3 <3 <3

[GMac2021]

1) Do you act/behave the same on the internet as you would in person?

 

Sometimes. I am a little more flippant and "dick-ish" online than I am in real life. Not just with people I don't know, either. I'm a dick with my real-life friends, too. They find me funny and amusing, though. Strangers find me obnoxious and annoying. I don't actually care. I have been online since 1996 (YAY AOL!!! There was two months where I could not connect to that shitty service and the assholes kept billing me, so I finally switched to iDirect... but that is another dick-ish story for another dick-ish time...) and I pretty well despise what the internet has become. I have earned the right to be a dick - even if you do not agree.

 

2) Would you ever considering a relationship with someone you have met or know online?

 

Emphatically, YES. As a matter of fact I would never date or have a relationship with a Canadian woman again. Not ever. I have my own reasons.

 

3) Would you consider dating or getting involved with someone from another country/state you have met onlne?

 

Yes again. I met my current fiance online in a totally insane fluke of circumstances when neither of us were actually looking for anybody. She is from Davao City. She is an angel. I know her and her entire family - so keep your snide remarks and cynicism to yourselves. 

 

4) What is the maximum age difference you would considering during dating?

 

I am fifty - yet a rather youthful and vigorous fifty (I wish I felt this healthy 20 years ago...) and she is twenty-seven. I win. Hey! I don't ALWAYS look like an even crazier version of Ted Nugent! I clean up rather well, I must say... (For all of you curious sorts who are lovingly gazing at my avatar right now: Mouth guards will NOT protect your teeth when you take a two handed cross-check to the face. Or your jaw. Or nose. Or Cheekbones. Or your head when it hits the ice (the mouthguard tends to fall out with the teeth, the broken jaw, and the unconciousness...) All I remember seeing is the word "SHERWOOD" coming closer and closer in slow motion... ) Still, hockey is one hell of a sport that I will NEVER play again.

 

See? Self-indulgent AND dick-ish. The best of both worlds! That pretty much sums up my online personality. Probably my real life personality too, to be totally honest.

 

 

 

 

 

[dewguru]

I'm married, hit 20 years this year, so the concept of dating is so very foreign to me. If you're still collecting information:

 

1. Yes - even in real life I tend to watch and observe a situation before speaking. So I lurk in real life too. I also rarely care what others think of me as it's my own opinion or that of my immediate family and friends that matters, so I when I do speak up, I tend not to get into debates unless it's a topic that I really enjoy talking about.

 

2. No - assuming by relationship you mean more than simple friendship. I've only eyes and a heart for my wife.

 

3. Not any more - when I was younger, before I met my wife, I did have a long distance relationship with a girl I met at a social function. She was visiting from Canada. The 'relationship' part didn't last long, but oddly enough we grew to be pen pals for a couple years until I entered the military and I didn't get a reply after a letter or two.

 

4. Not applicable. I've told my wife that if she ever leaves me that I'm too old to date, so I'd turn into a miserly old man.

[Emily]

This is probably about mailamea, no?

[Ark of Truth]

Don't derail the thread Emily......I already told you would the thread is about so don't to assuming about something you know nothing about.

[Mailamea]

I don't remember casting a vote. lol

[Brittainy]

Question 1: 

 

  I make an effort to behave the same way online as I would in person.  The major difference would be that I find expressing myself in writing to be infinitely easier than doing it verbally.  (I am horrendously shy / easily tongue-tied.)  But that applies to all forms of communication, not just the internet.   Verbal = nightmare.  Written = paradise.  If I could write someone a note face to face it would be a far more apt expression of my thoughts than anything I could ever possibly say out loud.

 

  If anything, the internet has made me more honest and more conscious of keeping how I express myself consistent between online / face to face.  It's also good for reminding me to only put things out there that I don't mind people (everyone) seeing.  

 

 

Question 2: 

 

 

Given that I met both my previous partners online, I'd have to give a very strong yes to that one.  However, I'd never bother with a relationship that was entirely online.  I'd want to meet them in person before any major feelings developed and the actual official 'relationship' would have to start after that meeting.  No meeting = no relationship.   I know a lot of people who claim to be in love despite never having met.  That would a fucking-hell-no for me.    

 

 

Question 3: 

 

 

Again, yes, but it would have to involve a meeting.  Long distance is fine after it's proven to be a legitimate match, but falling for someone you've never met is ridiculous.  (To me, anyway.  To each his own.)  All my relationships tend to end up long-distance in the long run, which is fine, but there actually has to be something tangible to start with.

[Ark of Truth]

I don't remember casting a vote. lol

You did there was only 1 question at the time. You can change your vote by deleting your old one.

[Ravana]

1) I typically act the same way online as I do in the real world. Even when I go so far as calling people out on their bullshit, or helping out newbies in any particular subject. The primary difference is that (not here, of course), sometimes I will use anonymity to sling insults at particularly bad people (people who talk big about a topic they don't know about, bigots, or the misinformed who zealously cling to facetious things. But never trolls I know a troll most of the time)

 

2) My wife and I met online I also occasionally take part in naughty roleplays and some very close relationships elsewhere online (with her consent)

 

3) She lived across the country from me. Not anymore though! We live together.

 

4) I voted 3-5, though honestly, it wouldn't really matter to me. At one point I found myself getting very close to a woman in her 60s (I'm 23), and we clicked on a very deep level. I wouldn't have hesitated to know her more personally if the chance had arisen.

[Ark of Truth]

 

3) She lived across the country from me. Not anymore though! We live together.

 

 

If you don't mind me asking, which one of you moved location?