I asked a related question about how often you lie, on a daily basis, but I think this is more apropos for today’s general aesthetic.
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Where is Margot Robbie when you need her?
I guess I only obscure little details here and there. I don’t say I like chocolate ice cream, I say I like “certain desserts”. If I were to spill all the details, I would be super recognizable.
I, Dr. Wesker, am a caricature of a real person.
I am more myself than myself, yet also exaggerated.
I am an experiment in personality and expression.
I am craving poutine.
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I have no interest in misrepresenting myself, I just try to give away as little as possible while still trying to contribute to the conversation.
Yeah as a doctor with a PHD in this exact topic and a huge dick, it’s not really in my interests to misrepresent myself.
Pretty Huge Dick
Obviously I hide my identity but that means not telling everything about myself. I don’t need to lie about it.
I don’t think I misrepresent anything. I comment as myself. Only thing that comes to mind is that I like defending positions that are ethically correct but have bad optics so for example defending Elon Musk when people here spread misinformation about him despite the fact that I don’t particularly even like the guy. It’s understandable that people make false assumptions about me because of it but I don’t really care. That’s on them.
I am really bad at just making shit up and it never occurs to me to lie. I can consciously withhold things, but my default is far too honest. However, do I have the ability to lie? Definitely. If I need to, there is some emotionless place I go to mentally and I just lie. That’s it. Just lie.
Having both worked in information security and been the victim of data breaches, I use a different random email address and different random name for every site so that credential stuffing will fail and so that my personal information cannot be used.
Thinking about it, I definitely misrepresent myself online 100% of the time, as I never say who I am. I do say a lot of things, but in a generic sense, enough that it would be hard to pin down who I actually am. I have a deep and irrepressible sense of distrust for the state, for decades, despite what I do for a job. So instead, I have an online persona that does indeed reflect my values, but is separate from the public facing person you might know.
You mean your real name is not Crack Happy? 😃
Unless you’re limiting yourself to very terse responses or having someone else (ideally random) write all your online content, you’re still very much at risk.
Yeah, I’ve come to terms with the fact that if I’m going to be this active on a public forum there is this risk. I try not to put anything too identifiable though and nothing that would be too devastating if tied to my real identity. I’m really not that interesting.
If I ever made someone online believe I’m a happy and optimistic person then I apologize for the misunderstanding.
I’m more my real self online than I am in the real world.
I would like to hear more about how and why that is, for you.
I can actually speak my mind through text than I can verbally. I become mute in most situations IRL because being physically around people gives me anxiety.
I know I kinda just spread my brains out onto Internet and it isn’t pretty but it gets the dopamine going and keeps me on the treaddsmill
You may have accidentally a word.
Ironic
Nah, I purposefully that word. I purposefully’d the fuck outta it.
I don’t, because I don’t use media that ties back to my identity so why bother?
As the President and CEO of a fortune 500, and a neurosurgeon that does rocket surgery as a side project, there are many people relying on me to be an upstanding member of the community at all times.
In reality, most of the ways I misrepresent myself are to obscure my identity, and mostly it’s by leaving things out.
I bend the truth a little to avoid getting Doxxed, but nothing major.
I’ve been sexually harassed so much online that I never correct people when they misgender me on any sort of party chat, especially with video games. I chose an ambiguous username, talk like a bro, have and naturally have deeper voice which only tends to get deeper on the mic. It’s actually really nice to be able to just play video games and be a human being.
I also put on corporate speak mask when I’m at work. Some days I let it slip and always regret it.
