the opposite is also true. online I'm more talkative and confident, IRL I'm shy as fuck from lifelong trauma and masking. my online me and IRL me might as well be two different people.
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…you guys are real?
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Normal people behave differently in different environments. This idea is too complicated for moralists, though.
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I had a friend who fell into the far right crowd, even though he's a brown immigrant. He constantly post far right content on Facebook. But looking back, he's had that streak in him and it was perhaps only matter a time that he finally succumbed.
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Do people actually say "he's not like that in real life"?
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This is true not only about shitty people. There's a lot of very nice folks on Lemmy who would face evil consequences for being honest about who they are in real life. Until then, there's Blahaj.
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No the internet is fake you've been imagining it this whole time
are the people on it living?
Considering dead internet, there's a good chance that they are not people or living (this is not an excuse to be mean online)
Who says this in the first place?
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One of the most famous quotes from "to catch a predator" is one of the creeps whining "well, the internet and real life are two different things."
It was a laughable excuse then and it still is now.
nobody is 'like that' in real life because there is way more context in real life.
on the interent a huge part of waht is interpreted is pure projection devoid of context. hence why people overreact to everything that they'd never react to if they heard irl.
it's funny. i used to be part of a forum where i was super controversial, then people would meet me irl, confront me about how evil i was... and then end up agreeing with me when i restated my opinions with a face and a voice and a tone.
most people were often interpreting me in such a way as to believe i was saying the opposite of what i was saying... as in they were projecting their fears and insecurities onto my words. they didn't do that as much face to face. after they met me face to face i went from being this 'evil cruel bastard' to the 'kind and generous' person.
i also notice that the insecure hateful people IRL, make stupid accusations about me projecting their behaviour onto me constantly.
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In the court case against The Pirate Bay founders, the prosecutor tried to get down with the kids and said "IRL". And he got back something like
Perhaps unlike you, we know that what happens on the internet is real. We say AFK.
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