🤔 If you were to create an alt-personality online, what would yours be?
(@AskTheDevil, I'm guessing, would go as a regular mortal - just for fun!)
I ask because there was a body of research a while back into online anonymity (using gamers especially), that illustrated how hard it is for us to mask our real personalities.
So when I show up in an alt-account as a cranky loner in a cabin, posting about the local porcupine and offering preservation tips...
Oh, you'll know it's me.
You'll know.
@MLClark I've done similar and while I used to go for something that was nearer to 'me', these days I'm more likely to go with a girly mermaid type who misleads people who believe she's a bubblehead. Kelly Bundy with brains, maybe? 🤣
@BillyBones @MLClark @AskTheDevil
A muscle bear to look at but a squishy marshmallow in person! I'd be an expert in something ridiculously obscure but only allude to it very vaguely in order that nobody could *really* test me on it.
🤩 Stuey! Your alt-persona has layers! (Squishy, wonderful layers!)
I am imagining your alt with a fiendish love of esoteric lute classics. When he's not out in nature, showing off his gunshow while being one with the animals and cooking over open flame, he's learning ancient music lore in the homes of hobbyists with traditions of instrument-craft not yet set down in modern academia.
(Fact-check THAT, online naysayers! 🤣)
@MLClark 😆🤣 Perfect! "It's an oral tradition! Nothing's written down!" @BillyBones @AskTheDevil