3: I come across a little more...concentrated as I do in real life, but that's about it, as far as I can tell. I would get along with the same people to a certain extent, and some people I would get along with better in 3d than online.

All the time is a tricky part. The nature of online is that you can participate when you want to and how you want to. That luxury isn't always available in RL contact. Some people I can't do all the time, even online.

I'm almost in ur house, eating your foodz.

I'm out at the st0r, buyin' our coffeez!

You! You snuggle her senseless for me! I will hear of no less!

I'm not the snuggle type (ask thudpucker!) but I will do my utmost to make sure she has a good time. Will that do?

You could subcontract out to some dirty old man to ... er ... give her a hearty handshake as a welcome to our fair state.

She's planning on going to at least one day of LOSCON, we can probably arrange a line ^_^

Omg you paid Sunday creepy man didn't you!!??? o.o

Sunday Creepy Man? I missed out on a Creepy Man?

Bill was edging toward creepy as well, if I recall correctly. Still wanna know what the hell his last name is.

No snuggles?! KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

I less-than-three your smartassiness.

I SUPPOSE, lol.

=P

4. We get to have spazzychic staying with us ALL WEEKEND. Mwahahahaha!

You will return her, right???

Please...?

You're more likely to visit L.A. in the future than Seattle, I figured you'd want me to keep her!

I think I am mostly the same person online as I am in real life, though I'm definitely a lot more chatty on here. I once had a friend who lived in cali and we talked incessantly online, and then I found I could barely speak to him once we met in person. I'd like to think I've become more outgoing since then though.

I think I could hang with most of my online friends in person, assuming I got past the residual shyness. You guys are cool. :)

Do you consider yourself the same or different?

I consider myself different. For some of the reasons others have mentioned. You get a greater chance to think about responses, for one. Not to mention when I get around people I don't know I either clam up or do the nervous talk-non-stop thing. I asked mainly because I have a couple friends in real life who online we can never find any common interests or anything to talk about but we get along swell in real life. It seems a strange phenomenon, I wanted to investigate it more.

3. Probobly, i've gotten better about this though. On the internet i'm usually much louder and outspoken than I am IRL.

I noticed that!!

Should come see me again. =D (AND SNUGGLES RAWR!)

I'm concerned if I ever get out there again that thudpucker won't let me get back to Cali!!

I think I am pretty much the same on all 'my' online stuff as RL, I do have that piratical alter ego for some craziness that is mostly still me, but with a very different perspective.

I do think that we use online forums for different personal reasons, and so we probably don't connect as well online, not that either are better or worse, just different.

I also can be interested in a variety of different things that people share, in person that is a momentary thing, and online there seems to be a need for more 'frame of reference' than I often have, and when I have nothing to add, I just become a viewer, not a participant. (I also have less time online for personal, since I am usually doing something for that alter ego of mine...)