I have no interest in misrepresenting myself, I just try to give away as little as possible while still trying to contribute to the conversation.
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Yeah as a doctor with a PHD in this exact topic and a huge dick, it's not really in my interests to misrepresent myself.
Pretty Huge Dick
PhD . Not really that convincing if you get the qualification wrong.
As the President and CEO of a fortune 500, and a neurosurgeon that does rocket surgery as a side project, there are many people relying on me to be an upstanding member of the community at all times.
In reality, most of the ways I misrepresent myself are to obscure my identity, and mostly it's by leaving things out.
I'm more my real self online than I am in the real world.
I would like to hear more about how and why that is, for you.
I can actually speak my mind through text than I can verbally. I become mute in most situations IRL because being physically around people gives me anxiety.
You may have accidentally a word.
Ironic
Nah, I purposefully that word. I purposefully'd the fuck outta it.
not op but if i say who i am irl, i'll get arrested
Where is Margot Robbie when you need her?
She's behind you!
I, Dr. Wesker, am a caricature of a real person.
I am more myself than myself, yet also exaggerated.
I am an experiment in personality and expression.
I am craving poutine.
As often as l can get away with. The more buIIshit about myself out there, the Iess IikeIy peopIe wiII be abIe to sift through it aII to find anything reaI l might have Iet sIip. Because l’II be honest, l’m not very good at poIicing what l say about myseIf. The next best option is to poIIute anything you might be abIe to gIean about me with mass amounts of misinformation.
I don't, because I don't use media that ties back to my identity so why bother?
I somehow give the impression that I know what I'm talking about.
Not at all, I am what I am and say what I think. I'm not afraid of my ideas being sifted and correlated with my IRL person. There's nothing about me being revealed on Lemmy that my government hasn't already known about for decades. I try not to doxx myself but that's about it.
Is it really misrepresenting if one or more of my personalities match?
If I ever made someone online believe I'm a happy and optimistic person then I apologize for the misunderstanding.
Completely on purpose? Never. Occasionally because of ignorance or a mistake? Probably once a week.
Yes, for anyone doxxing me, everything I say on the Internet is true. I am a middle aged lawyer with brown hair and three children.
So... you are a 20-something, bleach blonde pornstar who is single???
Two redhead children in a trenchcoat
Do they know they are your kids though?
God I hope not.
I have never once misrepresented the rich, playboy philanthropist I am.
I've been sexually harassed so much online that I never correct people when they misgender me on any sort of party chat, especially with video games. I chose an ambiguous username, talk like a bro, have and naturally have deeper voice which only tends to get deeper on the mic. It's actually really nice to be able to just play video games and be a human being.
I also put on corporate speak mask when I'm at work. Some days I let it slip and always regret it.
Knowing how easily someone could figure out who I am, I am very cautious to never say anything on the internet that I wouldn't back up in real life. Keeps me honest, I guess, or at the very least consistent.
Never.
Except right now.
What would be the point?
In anonymous medium there's no point pretending.
Having both worked in information security and been the victim of data breaches, I use a different random email address and different random name for every site so that credential stuffing will fail and so that my personal information cannot be used.
Never? I feel bad lying.... people who knowingly lie are doing a bad thing in my opinion... should really not do that
I personally find dishonesty immoral and I value behaving ethically very highly. As a result, I don't lie about myself online. I don't need to tell the whole truth, and I can say things that are untrue in specific contexts where I believe it'll be read as insincere (satirical, sarcastic, etc.) but I don't deliberately convey untrue statements as if they were true.