Some people come to the internet expecting an escape, a possibility of being accepted as they truly are, without the mask that a “politically correct” society requires.

At first, they may find people who will easily accept that otherwise unacceptable personality trait. But unfortunately, the internet is just another society with its own rules and prejudice. Sooner or later, this special virtual society will start judging the other personality traits.

With the fear of losing this recently-acquired acceptance, slowly, the need for a mask comes back. And the need for a third personality arises.

The next best solution is having one internet personality for each of our “otherwise unacceptable” personality traits. For example, one blog to talk about an eating disorder, another for alcohol, another one for sex..

Of course we could replace “otherwise unacceptable” with “otherwise unsatisfied”.

Either way, is this normal? Can people really live and be happy with multiple personalities?
 
   

 


 
 
irishlassie on
Re: The internet personality paradox
Of course! We live and are happy all the time with multiple personalities. It is just that the one gets mixed up with the others and we can't keep them apart, so the mixture of them all becomes the one "me".  So..I guess we should just be who we are with all the quirks and not give a shit about the judgment of others.

If they don't want to read what I write, they can just go bother someone else!
jimshields on
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I totally agree. I was just wondering there for a moment..
irishlassie on
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lunchfly2415 on
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this cracks me up cause i half thought about making another blog so i could write sexy stories on. why i wanted to make a seperate one was particially out of respect for my husband who may not want me to post such things under who i am. plus i wouldnt want people creepin on me personally. this way i'd feel safe. but to be honest i highly doubt i'll make one. i had been kicking around the idea for awhile and never took the initative. plus one blog is hard enough for me to keep up with.
as far as if we can be happy this way, well i know sometimes im a very open and out going person and other times im very anti social. i just need space and left alone. these are oposites, but i feel the basics of my personality stay the same. i think we are who we are no matter how many blog names we have. weather others think were acceptable or not is something we cant erase by changing a name. it will help us more to respect ourselves as who we are and let others suck their thumbs if they dont like it. lol
jimshields on
Re: The internet personality paradox
You made me smile too.. I can relate to almost 100% of what you said
lunchfly2415 on
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haha, im glad i made you smile. however, can i ask which part you couldnt 100% agree with? im curious
lunchfly2415 on
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forgive me, relate too, not agree. sorry. im coming off very little sleep to just about enough and im still dead tired and obviously by my typos and misspellings i still have a ways to go in the "getting my brains back" department. lol
jimshields on
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LOL.. I hope you got that department sorted out!

So.. you were asking which part I could 100% relate to? Well,
the part about using a separate blog for sexy things..
the part that it is already too difficult to maintain one blog..
the part that I'll never actually do it..
the part that the basics of our personality stay the same..
and the part that we helps us more if we respect ourselves as we are.

So, the part that I couldn't relate is the husband part..

I don't have to worry about being recognized, and if I am.. boo hoo..
I'm more worried that, as a nurse, people might get chocked and confused if they see two entries, one after the other: one that talks about the wonders of being a nurse, and one about some something sexual - almost perverse.

I'm living these situations, and I know how to keep things separate, but I'm not so sure about what other people might think: I don't want other people to think that I mix sexuality and nursing when I am the first one to want these two things apart from each other. We're free, right? But our freedom has a limit: other people's freedom.
lunchfly2415 on
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true that


 
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