Is this you in all your e-glory???Are you for real???

It is a stimulating question and one I was asked. Is the Y!A, e-mail internet you the real you or the you that you desire to be. We always tell people to avoid internet dating sites because you never know who is on the other end. So are your answers who you aspire to be, or is it the real you? For me - this is me on the inside- the outside is horrifying and could break mirrors at the shimmer of apperance- ok maybe not literally but there is the me I see and the me stuck inside a shell waiting to break free. Are the words me- yes- sometimes I am moody, other times funny, some times ignorant, some times educated and yet I keep striving to find the me no one sees... so are you real here- or do you find the same advice you need to take often given- there are times I do... The one amazing part is here you can look as you think you look, be who you are inside and not have to hide behind the closet doors. We can tell people what is really on our minds and offer encouragement and support to people we may not even know we know- that is the cool part to me- anynomity.... and the most discouraging part because I wonder if I would be the me you see or the me I see if you were to meet me.

Public Comments

1. Character wise this is really me, but Im not hiding being gay here.
2. i am more outgoing here than in person =]
3. Real me....I am in here, the way I am in person : )
4. i speak here as i would to one of my closest friends.
5. I'm much more hirsute in person.
6. well i feel the same way u do... it's like i'm really shy around peole and i don't really know how 2 act around them... however i like to help people so when i'm on here i give them advises so hopefully i'll help them out... and also sometimes when i am online i try to be as honest as possible and soemtimes i can't do that in person bcuz i'm affraid of what my family might think...
7. In the past, I'd be too shy to give such blunt answers, if asked the same questions to my face in real life, as I do here. But that's slowly changing. ;)
8. I'm neither an actor nor a sociopath--this is me!
9. i can be more myself on here.....knowing that there are others just like me ...... giving eachother advice....its great.....its even helped me to come out at school!!!! bi and proud hope i helped
10. This is me.. oh except for my avatar, that's Cristina Scabbia from Lacuna Coil. In real life, I'm a billion times better looking. So, if I put my own photo as an avatar, the collective light emitted from my hotness would burn down and blind the internet. So I'm doing y'all a favour.
11. I am much more outgoing here than in real life. I am an extremely shy person. But my basic personality is the same, and the views I type are absolutely what I think and believe. So, yeah, I am for real.
12. This is the real me, what you see is what you get, literally. There are a few words I use on here which probably wouldn't leave my mouth if I tried to say them (and I don't mean swear words), but apart from that this is essentially me as I am.