offline vs online perception
Mar. 3rd, 2011 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopperhad an interesting moment yesterday at work.
I make absolutely no secret of online vs offline personas. Okay, most people online know me by username, and I don't tend to talk about slash to non-fen. But online I make no secret of name/where I live/what I do for a living. However, had an interesting moment. One of the work lot has me on her twitter (I don't follow her) so I get the occasional comment or query with 'what was that about?' while I rewind brain to try and think what out of the eleventy billion things I posted she could've been talking about.
She'd seen someone leave a comment on something saying 'Tink says x with shout-out to' etc. And asked if it was me, because it seemed like something I'd do. And then got faced with the Eyebrow of Disbelief. 'Er... I take it not?'
Pointed out that although I may have garnered the nickname of Tink from several people at work who've seen photos of me on facebook and a few fen call me it for the same reason, I *never* refer to myself as it. And really used an icy tone when I asked 'considering what little you've seen of my online talk, when have I ever left a shout-out? Or used that kind of language? Next you'll be saying I used the word homie under any circumstance.'
She was suitable chastised.
I've seen it before. Why do so many non-fen not take any notice of the way someone talks online, even if they've been reading their posts for a while?
I make absolutely no secret of online vs offline personas. Okay, most people online know me by username, and I don't tend to talk about slash to non-fen. But online I make no secret of name/where I live/what I do for a living. However, had an interesting moment. One of the work lot has me on her twitter (I don't follow her) so I get the occasional comment or query with 'what was that about?' while I rewind brain to try and think what out of the eleventy billion things I posted she could've been talking about.
She'd seen someone leave a comment on something saying 'Tink says x with shout-out to' etc. And asked if it was me, because it seemed like something I'd do. And then got faced with the Eyebrow of Disbelief. 'Er... I take it not?'
Pointed out that although I may have garnered the nickname of Tink from several people at work who've seen photos of me on facebook and a few fen call me it for the same reason, I *never* refer to myself as it. And really used an icy tone when I asked 'considering what little you've seen of my online talk, when have I ever left a shout-out? Or used that kind of language? Next you'll be saying I used the word homie under any circumstance.'
She was suitable chastised.
I've seen it before. Why do so many non-fen not take any notice of the way someone talks online, even if they've been reading their posts for a while?
