Does your perception of your "place" on Askville match what it is/was in real social groups in your life, past or?

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I think it's pretty much the same on Askville as in real life On Askville I am a high achiever and the same goes for real life. On Askville I always have something to say and the same goes for the real world. On Askville I know many people and have a few close friends and that same goes in life.

I always have at least one man who is willing to do anything to protect me. I somehow bring out these feelings in men. On Askville I have a group of people who outright hate me and are constantly nasty about it.

They just can't seem to ignore me which I would much prefer. In real life no one hates me like this. There are a couple of people that don't like me but they just keep to their own business and I keep to mine.In this case, if Askville reflected real life then people would chase me daily with machetes and I would have to check my vehicle daily for bombs before I started it.

The anonymity of the internet and the ability to hide one's face behind a computer screen makes cowards brave. In life I don't suffer fools easily and Askville is too full of fools.In real life my sense of humor goes much farther than it does on here. I'm really very funny in life but most people don't get it here on Askville.

I think though that I do keep things interesting both on Askville and in real life. -layyla-'s Recommendations Fort Knox Gold Coins Chocolates, 2-Ounce Units (Pack of 20) Amazon List Price: $26.67 .

It is so odd that you ask this question because the other day I was reading the discussion on Marshalls question about who you like to trade places with. I felt like I was back in school. I never categorized myself with any crowd.

I wasn't the popular crowd, the nerd crowd, the bad girl crowd. I had my close friends that usually consisted of one or two people. I associated with the popular girls but never really hung out with them.

Reading that discussion board I could tell which ones are known by everyone (aka popular). I could tell who is the funny one and likes to keep the crowd laughing. As for me I didn't get involved.

Just like highschool I am just the girl who usually stays on the outside of the crowds just looking in. I don't like when clicks form so I try to avoid them at all cost. Usually I find myself trying to pull everyone in and let no one feel left out.

I'm just one of those that is not known by everyone, but that is just fine with me. Where I work clicks are formed. I work at a bank and so it is mostly women.

Women are so bad about grouping up. Just like school I stay away from the women who group up. I associate with them from time to time, but don't call myself their friends.

I just like to be friendly or associate with everyone.

It is a bit different, because there is there is some anonymity to not being seen or heard and only being read. And then I am a bit shy in the company of other people, as well. But in general, people do react differently face to face because I am older, because I am a woman, because I am white, anglo, my voice is a certain timbre- all these classifications come to bear on how people interact with me.

Here, people pretty much only reacting to what I say. As far as having been a stereotype- not really. There was so much going on in my family that was difficult that if I was a stereotype, I didn't pay any attention.

Since then, every year since then, in fact, there has been a concerted effort in my peer group to get beyond any stereotyping. It has been part of growing up for most people I know... You know every one of us is unique! And that is what makes life so very interesting!.

In high school all my classmates were Caucasian. I was not accepted and blamed for a war that I was not a part of.It was a lonely existence. Yet, my uncle and father served in the military.

At Pasadena City College, It was altogether different. The college was made up of diversity within groups. I build up confidence and started to believe in myself, and was respected for my leadership abilities as president of the honor society and student body president.

I believe my experience in high school set a goal of promoting diversity within the student organizations, I received recognition because I proved I could do it.At USC, I was a member of the public relations organization and made friends and some are still my friends. They have been married and having children. I was done with many moons age.

I was 39 years old when I began my college experience. Better late than never.

Not at all! Well, in real life when younger I always was kind of a shy person. Only had a couple of friends all my life and that hasn’t changed too much.

I am not the kind of person that enjoys to assisting to social events all the time but being in my own space doing the thinks I enjoy. Most of the time I enjoy being by myself and I prefer to keep my relationship with others in a more formal and occasional way. I am sure to call people before visiting to be sure they have time and the willing to receive me and I hope others to do the same.

I am not the kind of person (even though in my country people love to do that) of being all the time in the neighbor’s house asking for stuff or just chatting. To be honest I don’t know any of my neighbors really, I just say hello when I meet any of the neighbor that lives closest to my house and keep myself on my own business. Of course in every rule there is an exception, and the only exception in my life time had been my best friend, who I love as my sister, but of course she is more like a family member to me.

Let me explain more so you can understand. In Cuba, my country, people is TOO friendly that sometimes that drove me crazy. Probably it was one of the reasons I wanted to leave my country and the one that made me promise myself I would never married a Cuban.

People, knock at your door as if they were trying to pull it down, (I had a neighbor who used to come at our house late at night most of the time and do that to us and then she would call in a loud voice: “are you guys sleeping! ” which I was always temped to answer “Not anymore, you just woke us up”. Also when my mother’s or brother’s friends came to visit I never take the time to seat and chat with them, I just said hello and leave to do my things and going to visit my mother’s friends was absolutely not my favorite thing to do.

Another time here in Miami, I was neighbor with my cousin’s mother in law and mom had come to visit me, this woman saw my mom when she arrived and then came over my house, I open the door to her, she didn’t even say hello to me, the only thing she said was: “I need to see your mother” and entered my house as if it were hers. Go to my bed room to find my mother who was sewing something there. I was so mad!

I didn’t say anything because of my mother but that still bothers me when I remember it. One of my brother, for instance, live now in Argentina, and he told me that in his house his door is always open, and his wife family members and friends of both his wife and his just go to his house and enter and that’s ok for them. I know is true because he has his computer in his living room and I had been talking to him through msn messenger and I have seen people entering and asking him for his wife, and he can answers, “she is in the kitchen” and they just go.

I am sorry but I just can’t live like that, probably I am the one that is wrong, I am not patience at all with people or lack any kind of social skills or something. On the other hand what I expect from people is to respect my privacy and my space but some people doesn’t seem to get that or they don’t care and as my husband always says it is impossible to change the way people are, so I opt to be a solitary kind of human being, it saves me too much trouble. In Askville I found it great because it is not real world you just post a message, send a pm and the person has the freedom to answer in the time she/he want or can do that.

Not that I am interrupting anybody business. And you can limit much better how much a person is going to get involved in your life, how much you are going to tell him/her about myself and you probably have less chance to get disappointed at other people behavior as the ones I stated before. Also I had notice that specially in women most of the time in real life the only think the want to do with each other is to gossip about another friend or someone else, and I hate that.

Well, I just hope I don’t loose a couple of friends now with my confession and anyway I prefer to be accepted by what I really am and not by what I pretend to be. ;) .

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I've been away from Askville for most of the last two weeks with real life issues, mostly work but other things too.

If we all attended a giant Askville Convention, in real life...

IMHO - Askville _IS_ (underscore is for emphasis) Real Life. And ...

Are you the same in real life as you are here?" (13 answers).

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