Cyber vs real selfs.

varsha
varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

When we interact Online there are no visual clues — no body language, facial expressions, gestures, and tone of voice to  transmit meaning.It all depends on our words and the meaning put into them by the recepient.While our blogs should and I feel indeed do reflect our concerns and attitudes,I would like to know how far your online and real worlds coincide?

I gather that Blogging is increasingly about making money and getting readership-all bloggers are under increasing pressure to  create a charismatic online presence. Does the desire to market put a strain on your true self??

PS: In real life I am playing the ponderous bureaucrat trying to act my age-I think my blogs are a rebellion against that.But does that affect my authenticity??

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Hey varsha, that's a great topic to discuss !

first,  our true self gets exhibited in our blogs, howsoever we try to portray it the other way around. ( or else you have split personality!)  My blog shows the real me, which i cannot afford to show in the world i live. btw, we are in the same profession varsha!!

second, u r bang on right.  I started to blog for the sheer pleasure of writing. But I am realising its  a whole new world out there to be understood. rankings, followers and money, suddenly, i feel i am in the rat race, and thereby stressing myself. I have to get over this.

thirdly, no, i don't think, we are not authentic when we exhibit that aspect of our personality which hardly comes out.  We are authentic in our expression, only thing is we are selective about the place where we should be what?!

hope i said enough!

varsha
varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Dear Tanu!

Thanks! for the crisp and clear thoughts-i  get so introspective and self-flagellating at this perceived dichotomy in the two lives.

But you are so right-in real life we are playing so many roles-and while blogging we should strive to shed all external pressures and just BE.A blog is like "A Room Of My Own" where I can drop masks under the benign anonymity of cyberia and invite like-minded folks.

And belive me real life and blog life do intersect at some point-when I did not write I was more preoccupied with sweating the small stuff.It has made me a calmer more balanced person in real life.

But even if its blasphemy-let me get this out-

ranking-followers -money-sitestats It all distracts me from the act of writing and discovering myself through writing.

Mehfil shayar ki deewani ho,to bahut khoob ittefaq hota hai,Shayar,mehfil ka deewana ho to uska ilm khak hota hai.Smile

I think I have opened a Pandora's box here and I am getting ready for cat-calls and hoots from the Geeks.

 

varsha
varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Tanu WTF? Et tu a part of bumbledom??

I do want real life to intersect with cyberlife here!!

Sakhi Shah
Sakhi Shah
from Vadodara
14 years ago

Hmm...

I think to some extent everyone is different on their blogs than they are in real life - more coherent, more open, and more interesting - mostly because they're not always afraid of who is watching them and judging them. I think till that extent, its alright for the two worlds to not collide. (For example, I am certainly a hundred times more confident about airing my opinions online and thus definitely more convincing)

But deliberately acting different on the blog is not good. Your online personality cannot contradict your real personality (not the face you show people you know - but your core values) to a great extent, or else in the end you can't keep up the facade. My thoughts.

 

 

varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

You are so right Sakhi-being online has great advantages as long as we are honest to ourselves.

But apart from that blogs do afford the pleasures of  an alternative identity-where we can be our ideal selves.

totally different...............

varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Is it possible??Some concerns of yours must be spilling on to your blog?

 

Addy
Addy
from Mumbai
14 years ago

I don't know if its right or wrong, but my blog reflects the real me! Initially I shared a lot of info about myself, but now i refrain, though the idea of blog and posts remain the same!

varsha
varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

my cyber image of you is witty,whacky,irreverent adolescentSmile-the cool college-going dude.

 

Addy
from Mumbai
14 years ago

Hehehehehe, well thats a success! Cool

hi Varsha,

I think one can easily judge by  single glance, what a blogger wants to say and his inner quality can be understood by a single line he has written.

If he has copy pasted most stuff then what ever are his own written words they will

surely express his true self in one form or the other.

  Money oriented blogs will have mostly links filled in them in a meticulous manner.

They are truely professional blogs.

regards

pramod

varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

I don't know whether this applies to all.Some blogs are personality oriented others are more abstract.

Dr Pratibha Singh
Dr Pratibha Singh
from delhi
14 years ago

First of all i would like to thank Varsha to bring us to notice where r we heading.I actually felt that and agonized and sometime amazed at the influence of blogging in my life.

I want me in my blog and that was the sole purpose but after seeing so much commercialization in emotion thing I got stuck here and again thanks to VARSHA I am back again and my vision is very clear again.

FOCUS is the key word.

varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Arre Pratibha ji-kya baat hai!

Itne ahsaan ka ilzaam mat deejiyeSmile!

aap likhte rahiye khush rahne ki khatir;

padhne waale khud-b-khud rasta dhoodh lenge.

Deepak
from India
14 years ago

wah....

wat a compliment...Tongue out

geeta singh
from delhi
14 years ago

wow !! prats ...

 

 

varsha
varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Deepak!

        Kiss

Deepak
from India
14 years ago

*******blushes******** Laughing

Mag[m]
from Delhi
14 years ago

lolz @ deepu

Dr Pratibha Singh
Dr Pratibha Singh
from delhi
14 years ago

thanks varsha ji.I really liked the way of inspiring me.awesome lines

Mayank Sharma
Mayank Sharma
from New Delhi
14 years ago

To a major extent.. yes. My real self does get reflected in my blog.  Infact some of my blogposts were a result of conversations I had on those topics wit friends.  A case in example is my latest post.. Someone read n mailed me askin whether i truly believe in the things i have written? The answer ofcourse is..  I am , to some extent, able to do it.. but am nowhere near the level that would give me total peace.. so, tryin hard on tht front 

The problem starts when we are unable to align our real and online selves... 

Anyways............

@Varsha..

What impression does my blog give abt me ? Would be interestin to know..  Smile

varsha
varsha
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Rebel without a pause !Smile

But kuch criticism nahin hai.Every young person needs to go thru this phase.

Seene me jalan,aankhon mein ek toofan sa kyon hai?

Mayank Sharma
from New Delhi
14 years ago

Truly Cool .. Every young prsn also needs to realise tht fire in the heart shld never fizzle out... else the 'rebellion' dsnt matter a bit !

Thanx for visitin the blog n comment Smile

Deepak
from India
14 years ago

Rebel on indiblogger....???

howwweeee....Surprised

Addy
from Mumbai
14 years ago

Wo Wo Wo! IndiPolice is here, who's talking of REBEL? Yell

Deepak
from India
14 years ago

nope yar.... iPolice always late Yell

Addy
from Mumbai
14 years ago

Police hun! Yaar late aana to kaam hai mera!

Deepak
from India
14 years ago

koi nai....

ye to tera Janm Sidh Adhikar hai... Tongue out

Mag[m]
from Delhi
14 years ago

wo wo wo.... indi-police is coming or indi-dogsLaughing


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