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krinndnz

Quick thought on identity

Feb 18, 2010 21:55

Today I read both Raph Koster's post about what roleplayers look like and an archived discussion about spam on Twitter. The common thread between those is slim, but present. It's this: for those of us who conduct a lot of our lives on the Internet, the bar has risen. It's not just that there exist a lot of tools for broadcasting and managing ( Read more... )

postmodern, internet, tpoi, furry, art, personal, writing

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krinndnz February 19 2010, 16:25:18 UTC

One of the upsides, indeed, is that maintaining multiple masks got somewhat easier.

Psychoanalysis is ... somewhat overapplied, let's say.

tixen February 19 2010, 14:15:56 UTC

love!

krinndnz February 19 2010, 16:24:40 UTC

Yeah, you and cryptodragon and rax are pretty much the top of that list. ♥

Happily, the list is not short.

rax February 19 2010, 15:05:43 UTC

I prefer to think of myself as having identity solutions. ;)

jirris_midvale February 19 2010, 16:04:55 UTC

I like this answer :D

krinndnz February 19 2010, 16:21:59 UTC

It sounds so businesslike. "Enterprise-strength identity solutions by Rax!" Very enterprise-y. We should convince CEOs to buy this product and/or service.

Step 1: Turn CEOs into catgirls.
Step 2: Mew!
Step 3: PROFIT

rax February 19 2010, 16:26:24 UTC

Why not take extant catgirls and install them as CEOs? :) Minimal use of resources.

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sunfell February 19 2010, 16:03:31 UTC

I'm just me- flaws and all. No 'persona'- I got online before any of that stuff was necessary. I did choose a gender-neutral name, though- being identified as female in the earlier days was a invitation for harassment.

It's interesting to look back on who I was a decade or fifteen years ago. I would like to think that I have aged well.

krinndnz February 19 2010, 16:23:56 UTC

Well - "no persona" is still a persona, the same way "no design" is a design. The options for expression online are still different, and you still make some choices about what to express. So "as close to my offline self as possible" is still a persona - and as Koster points out, putting out your self-image like that is revealing. Happily, it reveals someone I like a lot. :)

nettiger February 19 2010, 16:47:09 UTC

Just to toss something more in ( ... )

krinndnz February 19 2010, 16:54:12 UTC

We think very similarly! The emulation thing - that's what I've been consciously doing, at widely varying levels of rigor, for the past N years. I am pretty happy with the results.

As for your last questions, I have very optimistic hopes about the answers to both. :)