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I thought this topic was pretty interesting- even to the extent of do I act different online/come across different online than I do in person. I actually have a mixed opinion about all of the above. In some ways I am the same ole me anyway you cut it, but I think online kind of makes a lot of people a little more pushy, a little more “brave” and that kind of thing too. I know that in real life I wouldn’t push some things as much as I do online and I would be more of a pushover. I know in general I am a pushover and I have had to come to the point where i have to stand up a little bit more for myself and not let people get the better of me.
I also seem to put up with annoying people and people that I don’t really like a lot better online than I would in real life. I try to be one of those if you don’t have anything nice to say or anything positive to say then I don’t need you in my life, so long bye… but there a few people that I associate with on a daily basis that I absolutely can not stand but I try to be nice to them and be nonchalant and what not- and it is hard. I guess because online I am more social as well, because in real life there are very few people other than my family that I even talk to or have anything to do with. I am just a very private person .. which with having a blog and writing up some of the things I have in the past you wouldn’t “get” that kind of vibe for me. I used to be VERY open on my blog, but now I just don’t do that sort of thing in some of the graphic details I used to- this is way before I had this site and when I was much younger and just didn’t care.
Now my site is listed on all of my social media and you never know who might stop by from the family or a family friend or whatver- which is fine with me, I have made my peace with that and I am not embarrassed of my site or anything so.. I just have chose to censor myself a little more. Which I don’t really do in real life- heck I could turn this around into a post about censoring yourself online lol. I do try to not cuss quite so much on here and stuff like that as well-and then thanks to people trolling me in the past I have a few things I won’t write about- which i turned my comments off a while back so..
Like I say there are several people online that I honestly can’t stand.. just the way they act holier than thou and like they are better and such- there is a lot of that in the blogging world and i’m here to tell you- no one is no better than anyone else! There is enough stuff for everyone to get to review, and the web is big enough for us all! I just kill people with kindness sometimes – it confuses people 😉
I guess something that transcends both online and off is a flaw of mine for caring too much for what others think of me.. which in the long run I guess I have done fairly well with not caring because everyone says you have to be “professional” and all this on a site and do all these things and follow the crowd. I started blogging before the word existed and I don’t fall into any of these professional and follow the crowd and you just have to do this to fit in in the blogging world, and it works for me. Kind of like in real life I have always been a little bit different in how I do most things so .. I like it. I like being quirky and random and different!
I could probably likely ramble on a bit more about this, but I am going to cut it off here.. this topic was really interesting to me because I know a lot of people wouldn’t act the way in person that they do online – like these people sitting there judging others and telling them what to do would think twice to do that to someones face- just like some of the comments people have made about me behind my back (love the behind the back stuff- see lots of people use online just like the halls of a middle school!) and comments that I have had left on this blog- and goodness only knows the things people have said behind my back that I don’t know about!
You know what though at the end of the day we are all people, and it takes all kinds to make the world go around so.. some people should just remember that