As
far as it goes when it comes to my life online and my life in the real world I
seem to show off completely different forms of myself based on the situation
that I am in. For example
typically in person what I refer to as real life I give off the very lazy,
carefree, unemotional type of vibe cause typically I just don’t want to seem like
anything gets to me and that I don’t really care about anything which at times
can be advantageous to me but at other times it can just make people think that
I am odd for acting in such a way. Although
when I switch into my online form basically when I go to play video games I
become much more emotionally hands on I got mad I get sad based on what happens
in the game and it is completely different from how complacently I act when I
am not online with people over the internet. After seeing this it kind of makes
me think so which of these personalities that I show off is actually the real
me the guy that seems to be completely complacent with his life or the guy that
swings emotionally between happiness and sadness, which of these personalities
describes who I really am the best.
After seeing this it makes me thing about Be Right Back and how Ash1 yes
he is a real human and that is how he actually was and she loves him for who he
was but at the same time you start thinking about Ash2 and you wonder he is
actually in a way better than Ash1 because as his online presence he was always
trying to look his best online so in a way Ash2 is a representation if Ash1’s
better moments and not actually a true representation of what Ash1 truly was
sometime good sometimes bad, sometimes happy sometimes sad. This is kind of how I see myself when I am
online I am emotional and passionate, when I am in real life I am emotionless
and complacent and I think yes I am showing off two different versions of
myself but in a way these are just two parts of one personality, sometimes I am
emotional sometimes I am not these two lifestyles in a way help to balance me and
make me into the one person with one personality I truly am.
4 comments:
I feel as if your experience of being a different person in real life in parallel with how you present yourself in virtual reality is not unique. I think most people have a persona they like to express virtually. Because, with the internet there is nearly no restraints and the ability to be whatever you want. However, I think the way someone is virtually is how they truly wish to be or who they aspire to be. Maybe you had a bad experience with showing your emotions so you became care free as a way to defend yourself (sorry if i'm being too personal). I think this because people would do so much more if they had no limits, real or imagined.
I feel as if your experience of being a different person in real life in parallel with how you present yourself in virtual reality is not unique. I think most people have a persona they like to express virtually. Because, with the internet there is nearly no restraints and the ability to be whatever you want. However, I think the way someone is virtually is how they truly wish to be or who they aspire to be. Maybe you had a bad experience with showing your emotions so you became care free as a way to defend yourself (sorry if i'm being too personal). I think this because people would do so much more if they had no limits, real or imagined.
I agree with your ideas about online presences being different from real life presence, but I'd say that my online presence and real life presence are pretty similar to how I act in public versus how I act around friends and family that I trust to talk to in my darker hours. I don't think that Ash2 could ever be better than the real Ash because nobody is truly perfect and people in relationships are in it for the good times and the bad. Without bad things we'd never have good things.
I agree with your arguments about your real self vs. your online self. Your online self is, more often than not, what you believe to be the "best version" of yourself. I think most of us feel inclined to show ourselves off in the best way possible on the internet; however, this representation could be the complete opposite of who you really are. Your online self is missing the depth of the actual self. For example, before Martha and Ash2 were going to have relations, she wanted him to have a reaction to touching her. Ash2 was not in touch with those feelings because Ash1 did not have that kind of information broadcasted on the internet. My point is to say that your online self and actual self could be similar, but the online self is missing the depth that exists in real life and in real life situations.
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