Oooh... This is a 'public' personae. Not everyone knows about the other place, but if I want to point my mom to LJ, I can. I can share pics with the family from LJ. I don't have to worry about what stanleypain sees here because it's locked. I'd prefer he doesn't know about the other one and I can lock him out of references to it. Because he has a habit of reading my friend's list pages on occassion.
That's a different thing though. Youre still you, and not pretending to be a totally different person. Youre just filtering the things that you want people to see. I do that as well. I'm talking about the people that are pretending to be something they arent. Feigning interest in things they don't really like, lying to the masses about who they are, what they do, what's really going on in their lives and in their heads. You know, when "I'm going back to school this year and majoring in neurosurgery" really means "I'm sitting on my couch playing mario kart and selling old comic books to support my crack habit". Ok, extreme example.
Not so very. There's some people I know from work that use LJ that want to come across in LJ as 'edgy' or 'extreme' and ... well... They're just kids. And they come across as kids. And they come across as seriously self-centered individuals who don't quite realize 'It's the same thing everyone else went through'... Only I seem to have gone through it at about the age of 14... They're 18 and 19 and 20 and going through it. It's weird.
Maybe that's my problem. I'm such a big fan of :shut up and be yourself. It drives me mad when I see people I know pretending to be something they're not. Oh well!
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Because he has a habit of reading my friend's list pages on occassion.
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Ok, extreme example.
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