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So are you the Real You when you blog?
Posted by ThriftShopRomantic • 5/15/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: blogging, challenges, personality, writing
Hi there!
Just for funSo are you yourself when you blog, or do you find you become a little different, some aspect of your personality or variation of you?
I know when Im forced to actually write down my ideas, it actually helps me be more clear in them. So I find Im actually a more confident, better me in my blog than if I were having a conversation. None of that talking to someone and thinking five days later, Ah, THIS is what I should have said!
Your experiences?
--Jenn
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It's the real me 100% -
I think I am more "me" in my blog than in "real life". Blogging allows me to express who my true being is without needing a filter. In real life, I find myself having to slightly adjust who I am depending on the situation (i.e. corporate me for work, silly me with friends, etc). Writing has always been my path to my true self, which is one of the reasons I am so drawn to it. -
Yeah, same views as kristin1724! - "I'm more me than in rl"
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I'm the same me offline and online. No pretenses, no fluff. -
I think it's interesting how many people actually feel they're "more Me" when they blog-- but maybe that's why blogging is such a fulfilling outlet... You don't have to see the look on someone's face when they totally don't get/appreciate what you're saying. :-)
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I'm the same here, there and everywhere -
I'm always me. Although sometimes I exercise care as I've already run into bother with my blog from those in authority over me.-
If you're blogging on the job then I can see their not liking it. If you are getting flack from anyone, on your own time, then realize they have absolutely no authority over you, not ever! Your opinion counts just like everyone else's does. So don't buy into the authority figure. Be free and write, write, write. Let your voice be heard. Blogging is one of the most liberating things you can do to be free.
In reply to the question, I hold back in real life, in person. I am more closed off, more private. Sometimes others seem to believe they know me better than they do. I only allow them to see what I want them to.
When I write I let everyone see the real me, uninhibited and soul bared.
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As I'm using a nickname I can be the real me, In real life many ppl jugde other without any reason or even when you think in another way. I can express myself better in my blog -
I think I can express myself better on paper, therefore I am real.. but I do wonder if it's a passive way of expression sometimes. I have always used journaling as a way of expressing my pent up emotions so I think that I still do that with my blogs. Well not on the one about the Environment. That's a pet project of mine.-
I may be kinda like you gypsy. I'm very real on paper; at other times, I'm just pretending to be me.
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My Blog is more the expression of the small voice in the back of my head. The one that thinks things that would get you locked up or thumped if you said them in public. You know, what you would really like to say to your boss, wife etc but cant. Its all me, just not the part that is for public airing. -
I definitely communicate better through my writing, then i do in person. I also have issues in group settings, i am pretty cool one-to-one, but for some reason too many people talking to me all at once, freaks me out. With writing i feel i can really take my time and gather my thoughts, and of course "edit"-
I totally agree with you there.. I much prefer one on one.. unless I am comfortable with the group..
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online or offline is the same me -
Im the same, my blog was built for the families favourite music videos so they could watch them in one place then a friend asked if he could add his and the idea went from there.-
Mind, if I was to add my humour as well it wouldnt suit many as its a cross between Jack Dee, Chubby Brown and morecame and wise
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The blog should be an extension of ourselves, right?
Just another way of reaching out an dthe closer to the true self the better OR at least where others can express themselves on your blog.....
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absolutely! i've been told my personality shines through in my conversational tone -
I try to keep myself [somewhat] anonymous aside from those closest to me who know me personally - but yes, I am really as off-the-wall, serious, poetic, loony, determined and opinionated on my blog as I am anywhere else on or offline -
I've really enjoyed hearing all of your insights.
It's interesting to me that the folks I've seen on the BlogCatalog who we know for sure are "incognito" in their personas... For instance, writing from the perspective of their dogs, a monkey, etc., haven't joined in the conversation on this one. :-)-
Allow me to be the first cartoon character to reply!
I would have joined in earlier but have been in mental turmoil since our two computers AND our car all died in one week.(yikes - was it something we said?)and am only now starting to catch up with everything. Ive missed you guys!
I blog as Frog the cartoon Dog, so its a HUGE relief to come to this lovely place and be amongst grown ups for a while. Mind you, I have forgotten how to write for anyone over six years old, so excuse me if I use short sentences.
Having said that, even writing as a cartoon dog, I am still completely myself.
I think this is why blogs reading is so popular and addictive - it's a chance to peep into someone's life for a few mins, and see what's really going on. -
Glad to hear from a representative of the Toon population! :-)
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Sadly, it's all me, all the time. I bet it would be more interesting if it weren't, but hey, go with what you're good at, right? -
I am the same, always tell it like it is. I can not stand phony people. -
It is the real me. I feel more free and safe being the real me on a selfless internet page than I do in real life where I am afraid of being judged. On the other hand, I do hide some of the real me on the internet for safety reasons. -
It definitely is the real me...I have to come across with the sarcastic sense of humor everyone knows me for...otherwise it just wouldn't be the same. -
Most times it's the real me, expressing thoughts, ideas and opinions that I would never dream of saying out loud, for fear of recrimination. There are some things that are better left unsaid. I would love to have guts enough to say some of the things I've written though, but what chaos I would stir up then! I'm not always as cynical as I appear though, and sometimes I have to think about what pisses the world off in general, therefore I'm not being the real me but just giving a general point of view.-
Exactly what I do too! But explained in an easy to understand manner. You just cannot utter everything that goes through your head. It would create chaos! The people you meet in day to day, "regular jobs", most of them are performing, hiding and pretending they are figures of authority. In truth the majority of them are shallow and messed up. So why would I want to share the entire real me with them? Here in cyber-world is freedom from restraint. As long as it's done with class, good taste and most important, unoffensively and with respect. Everyone is equal.
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Theresa, I like how you put that. I think you'll go far with that perspective.
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Your discussion triggered a response and I wrote a blog I've just uploaded. Fabulous day!
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Blogger ME and real ME correlate pretty well; I always incorporate the vernacular of my crazy thoughts into the words on the screen.-
Well said.
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It's the real me. I always say, warts and all.
Don't bother if you cant be real.
I wont ready the happy happy, joy, joy blogs for long.
The intriguing part is being with the same blogger for years.
Watching what happens in their lives and how they cope.
To find relationships within the blogging community
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It's the real me. Acting and playing games has never been my strong suit. -
Jenn,
You're correct, we are more focused when we write. Writing and editing help train the brain. The SAT has recently included an essay (test), which shows how well the student can explain his thoughts in a few brief paragraphs.
I write a piece and leave it unpublished. After sleeping on it, I feel refreshed and have thought through my writing. After an edit or two, I publish. It means loads to me because I'm also publishing comments on another's life work.
Kelly Jad'on
www.BasilAndSpice.com
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that's a great advice Basil and Spice. usually I am in a rush to get things published. I am an incredibly impatient person... but I think sleeping on it can surely improve my writing
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I often write something and come back to it the next day.
I don't think these edits make it any less "Me"-- but it gives me the confidence that I've said precisely what I want to say, the way I want to say it. In real life, I tend to want to go back in time and revise myself!
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real me and part of me. yes writing can make idea clear and it's good to review some time later to see how things go on. -
I try to be as real as possible. Most of the time I sleep on the topics, then return to enhance them later on. -
I try to be the better me...I work part time at the city animal shelter and it would be so easy to write about the negative aspects of life after my shift. I use my blog to celebrate the beauty and humor in life so my blog helps me focus and maintain a positive view to share with my readers. -
I started to write when I eventually woke up to the fact that I'm well into the minus on the 'cool' scale.
My best chat-up lines would always come to me half an hour after I'd had the knock back and if I was ever openly challenged, my James Bond style re-enactments in front of the mirror some time after the event were (let's say) a little less than factual.
I'm not sure that my blog is cool either but I do find life a lot easier to handle from my armchair. -
It's real, but I think it's not always complete, and it brings certain aspects of us (or at least, me) in sharper focus in different contexts. Of the three blogs I have listed here, the writing one is the most natural and unplanned, the one that I'm most inclined to blog on just because I have something to say. That's the place people who know me IRL would be most likely to "recognize my voice". But when I'm writing for my religious blog it's not any less true, but a different focus that maybe doesn't come through so much in everyday interactions because it's more internal. I only have one blog on which I make a conscious effort sometimes to "go further" than comes naturally, and often...um...I forget to do that and just start writing.
But this is entirely different from the blogs I maintain for work, where a different persona has to be adopted depending upon the group I'm "representing" with my posts. -
Definitely the real me. I blog about something I love and subjects that I am passionate about. At the most sometimes I have to tone myself down some just because I am so passionate about certain things so I just try to go with tact and still get my points across. I have the advantage that most people who read my blog feel and think pretty much the same as I do or they probably would be reading it! -
You mean like Bizarro me? No, it just me. -
100% real! -
I'm new at blogging and I think I hold back to a degree. I'm so new at blogging I haven't yet established any relationships with any readers.
I allow my personality to come through as though I'm conversing with someone I'm merely acquainted with as opposed to how I would interact with a very close friend.
Maybe I'll open up a little more as time goes by? We'll see.
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I'm more me on my blog than in real life.
I don't know how I feel about that, honestly.
People who know me in RL would tell you I'm pretty wide open as it is, LOL. But no, if I said what I really think, I'd have no friends at all.
Which is why no one I know in RL even knows I have a blog... -
I'm more of a pain when I blog, but for very good reasons. My blog/site is about reporting on malware and rogue organisations so I tend to slamdunk them down and paint them in a bad light. Some may see that as a bad way or a good way.
Other than that on articles that are off-topic I am different in RL in some ways. Alot of people know I have a blog but not everyone. They may think I'm crazy if they did. -
I am definitely the real me but a different side of the real me.
I most definitely have about a billion different sides of me depending on the situation I am in. When I am on my blog I am at the point where I am most comfortable, just like when I am with family.
I guess that is mostly because I really don't need to impress. -
im totally me!! sometimes im even more of me than in real life cause in my blog i can talk about my obssessions all the time!! ok, not true i try to control my obssessions cause i dont want to look soo obssessed!!! lol!!!!! -
I am me...I want to the world to know who I really am... -
Same same same lol! -
Only my thoughts are real
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I rent my mind out to a freak for the purpose of blogging.
it seems to help me get readers. ;D -
I'm as real as this thread is old.-
I was surprised to see it here myself! A number of my very old, dead threads seem to have gone Zombie just now.
Where's Sean of the Dead when you need him?
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I am myself when I blog, but just a more confident me. I love to write, and blogging lets me express who I am to others. It lets me clear my mind of all of the things that I am thinking about, and lets me share my thoughts and ideas with others. -
I express myself better through writing, and i also learn more about myself and an better able to deal with different experiences and problems, when i write. -
I don't think there is any one "real me" or any one "real you" or any one "real anybody." Like Walt Whitman wrote:
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then, I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes -
I'm far more charismatic in my writing than anything else. Even when I'm writing about something that's bothering me, I try to word it in a manner that is respectful and doesn't step on anybody's toes.
Nonetheless, it is me. I try not to pull any punches or anything like that.
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