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I'm afraid that I'm funny online/texting but bland and boring in person
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I'm the other way around. I can make people laugh easily in person, but can't write a decent opening text in something like Tinder.
Completely opposite for me. Texting is hard as fuck, in person you can get your tone across so much more easily.
OP
OP
Yeah, your humor seems to be extremely internet-y. I don't know how to help you, I guess in real life you need to remember that people don't really get references unless they are to popular things, also the weird absurd scenarios are meant for a specific crowd
The difference between real life and online is that online your physical appearance and voice delivery is not a factor. You do not take into account when saying things how you look relative to other people and you are not taking into account how you are delivering it with your voice. Nevermind the fact that casual speech needs to be thought of instantly while text can be prepared in your head before being sent out.
Just go out and talk with people. And by that I mean a lot of going out and talking. Learn to be less self-conscious and more instictive and sponatneous. Use the voice you have.
Just go out and talk with people. And by that I mean a lot of going out and talking. Learn to be less self-conscious and more instictive and sponatneous. Use the voice you have.
And don't make internet jokes in real life, it doesn't work.
And definitely don't rely on meme jokes.
You'll bomb a few times until you fine tune it to what that person might find funny.
And definitely don't rely on meme jokes.
You'll bomb a few times until you fine tune it to what that person might find funny.
I funny with people when I tell the truth about something, so it doesn't alway work, but when it work, it work very well
I Tried to be funny online with text, but almost nobody notice it, so I don't know if my text are bad or good
I Tried to be funny online with text, but almost nobody notice it, so I don't know if my text are bad or good
I'm the exact way OP, but if it helps when I met people from forums and chats IRL they always say I'm nice to hang around. Not sure if it's just sparing my feelings, but you may be more interesting/funny than you feel like you are.
Definitely the opposite (glad I'm not the only one). It's easier when you read the crowd, their emotions , etc. Against a screen it's mostly words and stuff in your head combined with 'do i really care?' In person since it's easier to read people I can wing with much easier and be seen as funny. But I suspect part of it has something to do with the time period you were growing up in, whether you read body language inherently well, or if you're socially outgoing or not (awkwardness isn't since you can use awkward depending on your sense of humour).
I'm not great with either. I'm shy irl, and it also takes me awhile to come up with a post, and then in the end it's boring. Like this post, I couldn't think of a joke.
Like these 2. Probably 2 of the most funny people on the forums. I can't compete so why even try!
I had that for a long time. It might change if you spend more time around different people. I feel like my personality didn't really come out in real life until sheer chance brought me into contact with coworkers that clicked with me socially. Before then, I was a lot more reserved in public.
lol me too. I sometimes feel afraid to text people nowadays, and nobody wants to talk on the phone anymore.
This is me. I tend to overthink when I'm online or texting. Right now I'm overthinking this basic response.
I feel like i'm the opposite, i come across witty, charming and soft in person but kind of fail to online or via text. I come off too blunt and serious sounding when communicating digitally, my tone and humour just doesn't transfer correctly. I need to work on it.
I think I'm way wittier with written conversation as well simply due to the fact that you have time to come up with something clever before you respond. In an actual conversation you don't get that amount of time so I'm not quick enough to think up something funny most or the time.
I used to be the same way. So much so that I used to IM with a girl online who was basically my girlfriend for a year, and I was afraid of meeting her in person because I thought I'd be a letdown compared to my online persona.
It's a skill. You just need to work on it.
^ Now this is me. Sitting at a computer gives me too much time to overthink. The adrenaline rush of in-person social interaction helps me think on my feet.
It's a skill. You just need to work on it.
I've never met a person I wished I could be as witty, uncaringly open and "off the cuff" as, without later finding they had drug/mental health problems.
Don't worry OP, it's okay to be boring.
Don't worry OP, it's okay to be boring.
I want to believe I'm more funny in person, though my humor does better with fellow Europeans rather than North Americans.
But yes, written humor is easier to land because you can spend time thinking about it. In real life you have to think quickly. I've seen many people these days try internet humor in real life, too, and that tends to not work at all, or even become awkward...
But yes, written humor is easier to land because you can spend time thinking about it. In real life you have to think quickly. I've seen many people these days try internet humor in real life, too, and that tends to not work at all, or even become awkward...
It's hard for me to transfer my personality through a text. It's not natural to me compared to talking face to face in person.
I think I'm the opposite. I try to be funny sometimes, but I don't think anyone is laughing on here. I know I'm funny in person because my wife tells me I'm not (she still laughs at my jokes though).
the amount of times I come up with something funny irl oncd the moment has gone is excruciating. I'm so terrible on the fly. could doing improv help with this or am I just doomed to be slow witted for the rest of my life?
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