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Can you tell what somebody is really like by reading their posts? Have you been proven right/wrong? Have you discussed it with them? How do you imagine someone to be like? Does your true personality come out in your posts?

i never thought you plucked your eyebrows

horatio said:

I don't! I have terrible eyebrows in fact. I think I'm going to end up looking like Denis Healy when I'm older.

I think it is easy to misjudge someone just by reading their posts...especially those ppl that just say things for shock value.
some ppl are more upfront about who they are when they post..others just say things to get attention.
I think that is why I communicate through orgnotes a lot.

I think that to a certain extent, its difficult to try to figure a person out thru their posts....for me, I'd carry an image into a "meet" situation to see if it jibes with what I put together from the posts....

If you can tell that I'm an asshole then you're right!

JDInteractive said:

on occasion uni-brows are hot. I thought about growning mine out, but then i decided i'd just look like a skinny white boy with one giant eyebrow

Nah, I don't think you can truly tell what someone is like until you get to know them. You can get a hint of their personality or they're leanings (conservative/liberal), but not what they're really like.

it takes me a while to get people in real life. Textually, it's still a task. The only person I've been able to identify via posts/text would be my bf Darren. That was only because he and I share similar traits character-wise. Even then, I found out there was TONS I didn't know.

Tons of sexy stuff.

LadyLuvSexxy said:

no but if you see the rest of their fence you can tell what size garden they have.

jami0mckay said:

Why on Earth have you saved that photo to your photobucket?!

JDInteractive said:

in case of post/fence type jokes, I was beginning to think I'd never get the chance to use it.

Sometimes I can tell and sometimes I cant.

I thought I did at one point until I've received some orgnotes

Some time,We are all little open what kind of person we are.

yup. i've only met one orger but he really is a deranged serial killer.

evenstar said:

jami0mckay said:

you seem very nice and normal though!

evenstar said:

If I compare the way people come across through their posts with how they come across on the phone then yeah, it's interesting how well the impressions match. Only once or twice have I been surprised, and then it's mostly had to do with people's voices or how talkative they are rather than more profound things.

Depends on the person.

Muse2nopharoh and CarrieMpls are exactly what I pictured when I met them in real life. With Carrie, it was her personality matching up with the things she said over the years on the org---with Karen, it was because I already *knew* her before meeting her.
Same with cborgman, endo, and heybaby.


Surprises for me were:
Anx, sosgemini, and Ripher2shreds


sosgemini was the biggest surprise. He's very very charismatic and fun in real life. On these forums, he's positively grinchy!

Imago said:

agreed!

I think most people I've met have been pretty much what I expected, but there are always a handful of surprises. It depends how much time you spend getting to know someone online and how well they communicate themselves in this format.

CarrieMpls said:

OMG, don't even deny I didn't blow you away with my complexifications and shit!

Imago said:

ROFLMAO!

Yes, I think you can tell what a person is like by what they say in their posts.

JustErin said:

Yeah, for the most part I get a read on people easy. 1 surprise in the years.... I have met a few and find them to be as expected.....