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Oh sorry, forgot to reply yesterday.
I think they are both real (two sides of the same coin), but I prefer the online version of me, for the same reason @plebpoet likes it when people read about her first:
I actually prefer when people read what I write about before they meet me. It’s easier for me to show who I am through writing.
I think it’s easier not to take things personally online since we’re all more or less strangers. In real life, I’m not sure if you have to, but I do tend to keep my guard more up. Not just in a ‘people are mean’ way, but also in a ‘don’t say or do anything stupid’ way.
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What's the cause of this divergence of real and online selves? Are they both 'real', for whatever that means? Or is one of them a mask, and if so, which is it?
(Although I suppose asking one of the selves which of the two is real is probably a suspect methodology.)