I'm personally not sure. Would they understand? I'm afraid they wouldn't.
Anyway. If you don't have a lot of friends or no friends at all, imagine you did.
Anyway. If you don't have a lot of friends or no friends at all, imagine you did.
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Would you show your era posts to your irl friends?
- Thread starter julia crawford
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No one who knows me would expect anything different from exactly how I seem in my posts, so sure, I'd show them to people.
Wifey and my friend already know lol, so yeah.
Too right, they're great!
There's not too much disparity between my personality, interests & how I express myself here & myself IRL so I wouldn't mind.
Surprisingly yeah, I haven't said anything too off.
I'm only a bit embarrassed about my posts when I get mad at Rare and Banjo Kazooie. That shit is childish... But I love Banjo Kazooie, goddamn it.
I'm only a bit embarrassed about my posts when I get mad at Rare and Banjo Kazooie. That shit is childish... But I love Banjo Kazooie, goddamn it.
Honestly it might make it easier on me if someone could pull up a portfolio of my post history to decide if they want to speak to me. I don't have many IRL friends after falling out of any friendships I had from high school, and I just don't want to be friends with people I can't be myself around, but you can't always tell what someone is like on a surface level.
I'd never go out of my way to do this, but it wouldn't give me a heart attack if someone I knew was watching my posts.
I'd never go out of my way to do this, but it wouldn't give me a heart attack if someone I knew was watching my posts.
Nah I'm sure we've all spouted off some shit impulsively on here. I wouldn't be arsed explaining it.
i'm sure they'd be like "so what, i already knew you were a nerd" or something, so why the heck not
I'm being held back here. I wish the mods would let me speak my mind one day out of the year, I'd really go off on some of you , especially in the stimulus bill OT.
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I dont want to get banned. I was already banned once for saying that era was a hivemind.
Tried to get an irl friend of mine to post here, but I guess she doesn't do forums.
I've read posts from here, including ones I've made, to bestie on multiple occasions. Content-wise, I'm not sure there are very many things I've posted here I'd be ashamed to show others, outside of a few times my emotions got the better of me.
I've read posts from here, including ones I've made, to bestie on multiple occasions. Content-wise, I'm not sure there are very many things I've posted here I'd be ashamed to show others, outside of a few times my emotions got the better of me.
Nah.
ERA for me is more for posting things I find cathartic and agree with the collective mind with (which is essentially almost all progressive positions) and want to vent and express it. I have way more nuanced discussions with my friends IRL, some of whom may not share my beliefs, which I don't feel like ERA is conducive to at all - so there'd really be no point.
On gaming side - most of my friends aren't really hardcore gamers - more on the casual side so I don't have real discussions with them about games. That's what ERA is for for the most part.
ERA for me is more for posting things I find cathartic and agree with the collective mind with (which is essentially almost all progressive positions) and want to vent and express it. I have way more nuanced discussions with my friends IRL, some of whom may not share my beliefs, which I don't feel like ERA is conducive to at all - so there'd really be no point.
On gaming side - most of my friends aren't really hardcore gamers - more on the casual side so I don't have real discussions with them about games. That's what ERA is for for the most part.
Yep and none of them even know what era is. I mostly link them to the OTs I make on the gaming side and fun posts I see. It's funny too because I work in the games industry and a lot of people have never heard of era. I've only met one person over the years who knew what it was on first mention.
No I wouldn't. My wife actually asked last night if she could read some of my comments. Pretty sure she meant reddit and I'm not posting anything crazy but it's almost like going into someone's phone and reading the text messages
Edit: I quickly moved the conversation on about her reading my comments and didn't acknowledge her question. I just kept talking and brought up a different question to distract her. So smooth /s
Edit: I quickly moved the conversation on about her reading my comments and didn't acknowledge her question. I just kept talking and brought up a different question to distract her. So smooth /s
Not a chance. I don't even like online friends knowing about my era account let alone irl friends haha.
I honestly don't believe I post stuff here I wouldn't tell or haven't told friends. Hell, I probably shitpost more IRL
I mean, I use the same name for literally everything online and I don't really say anything I wouldn't say in person so yeah I wouldn't care about showing my friends an Era post I make
Plenty of people I know irl know who I am here. I'm going to be more passionate and specific about my interests in video games and whatnot on Era than I am to say, family members or coworkers, but I pretty much present myself as am on or offline.
Yeah, absolutely. I'm exactly the same online and irl, except I'm even more wordy and specific irl. It would be like reading a slightly filtered me because of sheer laziness.
