I'm pretty much the same as in real life, except maybe I'm quieter in real life. If people do think I'm different it would only be because I might not get to talk as much and not because I act or feel differently. I only use an alias because I don't want the hassle that might come with people knowing I visit this site but even more so because generally I really don't trust almost everybody online. It's not because I really care if people knew I look at porn in of itself. To be honest even if those closest to me and those I worked with ever found out none of them would probably give a damn. Maybe I'm lucky in that respect.
I will say one thing in my over 20 years of being on the Internet a gigantic amount of time, even compared to most big internet users. It has giving me a lot of experience with it and observations I think are astute that have come with that time. The perceived (and despite what people think, false) anonymity of the internet has had the effect of bringing out the inner asshole of gigantic portions of Earth's population like nothing else in history ever has.
Don't believe me just look at a lot of this messageboard, and there are far FAR worse places than this. Yes, there are assholes on here and unfortunately it gets worse as time goes on. I wish there was more good people to speak out and stand together against it, but those are getting fewer also. Just look at the comments section of any major news site that allows them. Just look at the tons of other forums out there. The vile garbage that gets spewed or posted doesn't give me hope for humanity. The unrestrained ****, the lack of empathy, the selfishness, the willingness to hurt people if they can because that's what they like, the willingness to exploit anybody in any way they can for money, those things go on all the time. Once long ago I would have liked to chalk that up to otherwise alright people wearing their Internet mask and acting like a douche because they thought they could. However I have totally changed my thought on that as time goes on and I understand humanity even better. No, now I know the inner asshole of those people is the real them. What they might show in public and the pleasantries they say to those actually around them is the real lie. I'm sad to say it, but it's the truth. When you remove the nice mask of so many people what's really underneath can be very sickening and pathetic indeed.
That's part of the thing about it to. Almost none of those people actually have the courage of their convictions. They hide behind what they put out on the Internet because they are too chicken **** to ever say that to a group of people right in front of their face or to emphatically say what they do with their real names. See, that's part of the real them to, the pathetic coward. None of what they do ever fools anybody with half a brain from thinking otherwise about them.
You know how I said the Internet was only perceived to be anonymous. Maybe one of the few bright spots is that if you really do **** off the wrong or enough people you will be found out. It might take a lot of resources, but those lots of resources when they are had can be focused. Then those precious few times it happens we can all rejoice as the vermin they are are brought into the light to be scorched by it. It just makes me feel so right when that happens as the world gets a little bit better. If they somehow evade legal trouble, which they probably won’t, then perhaps good people can make pariahs out of them for their entire lives and make it the living hell they deserve.