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I don't have a mental picture of all the forum users, but do for quite a few. The picture is more of an impression, I suppose, but, it generally remains the same, unless the user says something to cause a change. It's doubtful anyone actually fits the notions in my head, notions which are nebulous and generally rather sketchy. Many give immediate clues as to their gender, which makes it easy, of course, but sometimes I'm surprised. Someone I thought to be a she is not and my preconceived image flies out the window. Occasionally, I've met people from a forum and have only been surprised a couple of times.
What do you do? If you meet someone, are they ever what you previously imagined?
I've only met a couple and they didn't seem that different. The thing is, most CD posters probably haven't met too many posters.
What I do find interesting is completing agreeing with one poster on one forum and completing disagreeing with him on another forum. On one forum you're an ally and on another forum you're a villain.
there are a couple of threads which have poster posting a photo of themselves and many posters post photos of themselves in their profiles.
Hmm...I'm glad you brought up your thoughts about how you think online posters look--I was thinking about making a similar question, perhaps in the psychology forum. Do you base your mental pictures of us on our post content? Or do you depend more on our profile info?
The thread I was considering was asking if our appearance in profile photos affects your opinion of our posts. Does it matter and should it matter? For example if I share an experience in my post, would you take it less or more seriously if you thought I was attractive or ugly? I'm having trouble putting these ideas concisely. Sometimes I contemplate putting my photo up for a short time to see if people respond differently when they know what I look like.
I haven't had an experience with meeting a CD poster in person. Only twice in my life have I met someone who I got to know online first and later met in person, but I video chatted with them first so I knew what to expect IRL. I've also had the same experiences as you reading CD posts, assuming someone is older than younger or a man not a woman. There are only two posters I think of off the top of my head who are women but I assumed they were men--don't want to say who but I think others here had the same thought.
Hmm...I'm glad you brought up your thoughts about how you think online posters look--I was thinking about making a similar question, perhaps in the psychology forum. Do you base your mental pictures of us on our post content? Or do you depend more on our profile info?
The thread I was considering was asking if our appearance in profile photos affects your opinion of our posts. Does it matter and should it matter? For example if I share an experience in my post, would you take it less or more seriously if you thought I was attractive or ugly? I'm having trouble putting these ideas concisely. Sometimes I contemplate putting my photo up for a short time to see if people respond differently when they know what I look like.
I haven't had an experience with meeting a CD poster in person. Only twice in my life have I met someone who I got to know online first and later met in person, but I video chatted with them first so I knew what to expect IRL. I've also had the same experiences as you reading CD posts, assuming someone is older than younger or a man not a woman. There are only two posters I think of off the top of my head who are women but I assumed they were men--don't want to say who but I think others here had the same thought.
I rarely look at anyone's profile. I did look at a woman's profile because she mentioned she'd posted an album and being interested in fashion. It was interesting to see her fashion photos. I also happen to often agree with her opinions. As I said, I don't have any sort of image in my mind of most posters.
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