To my knowledge I’ve met 4 forumosa posters (3 of whom no longer post) and I thought they were all very similar IRL to how they posted online.
Well, I guess it depends on the person. Me, in real life, I don’t ask people where I can find a sohe repair shop or write letters to the black woman who drives a Jimny.
But I do feel tempted to do it 
You guessed wrong in one instance. I understand what you mean about not being able to be exactly the same. Some people develop a persona, which is fine, but it’s cool when people are just being themselves, hence, a like.
See? there’s a problem with text. People miss details, like irony (or fail to communicate them).
Anyway, the original point was if i was or not the same person in the forum and in real life. That question would be perhaps best answered by the people I have met in real life. And I prefer them not to reveal that lol
Just to be clear, I don’t have any problem with people being different online to IRL, just I don’t think I could do it. Not consistently, at least. Perhaps this suggests I’m not particularly creative.
Try it.
I personally don’t give a shit who knows who I am even put a photo of myself on here one time. Vacation Taiwan post.
Incognito of course wearing sunglasses.
It is imperative that all nations go into lockdown for 2 months. Governments must print money in order to pay for this. Anyone who disagrees wants to kill my elderly mother.
Whoa, who is this guy?
New guy on the forum apparently.
Can’t wait for his next post.
Thats why there needs to be a whoopsie poopsie emoti
I guess people working with me can identify me easily, though I’m more polite or indirect to strangers IRL.
What I find weird is I don’t recognize myself in my old posts. Like, completely different personality. “I is another”.
That’s because you are writing in a language different from your mother tongue, and you were in a different moment of your learning.
Says the survivor of Discourse anonymity
Still wouldn’t be respectful to disclose info about you that I could reasonably expect strangers to not know.
Speak for yourself! Death will never take me alive!
Wait, what? You mean the other half are posted by someone who isn’t you? Or is this a fight club sort of scenario?
That’s a badge that only few can own!
I hope you don’t regret the monster your are creating!
This is me. I read my old posts and wonder who was that, who wrote it, and thinking I don’t think like that and I don’t talk like that.