What fluther interaction best represents your perception of yourself?

In social questions, I tend to treat Fluther like a diary that gives feedback. That probably makes me appear a drama queen, quite unlike my real-life personality. I see Fluther more like a social site (although I don’t interact well on real social sites), people reaching out and supporting one another. I try to give as much support as I receive, which has been considerable.

My take on that type of question is that some people over think their participation here. It really is just a glorified chat site, without the ‘real’ time you find on the the regular ones. I don’t really stop and analyze my participation.

This is a hard question… I’ve been here so long, and I’m pretty much the same wherever I am, so I’d be hard pressed to find one interaction. On the other hand, if you were to look at all of my interactions here… I think you’d have a pretty good idea of who I am in “real life”.

How I see myself:

A generally serious person, with a serious goofy streak. Someone who generally does the right thing, but also has a naughty side. A mom who tries her best, and fails all too often. Someone who genuinely cares about other people. A thinker with a tendency to go off on the occasional flight of fancy. Curious. A liberal heathen. Well read, but under-educated. Pretty well spoken, but… I cuss like a sailor. Procrastinator extraordinaire.

Only you all can tell me if I have it right!

Hm. Well generally speaking you could pretty much figure out who I am through the questions I ask. Though this thread really shows who I am. My old account chelseababyy was used in most of that thread.

When you say:
”I am thinking that sometimes we may find ourselves in fluther interactions that we walk away from and think “hmm, not really my sort of thing” while walking away from other exchanges thinking “Now that is what I like!””
For me it’s like.. I don’t really interact or usually have interactions where I’m like “That’s not really my sort of thing”. I tend to stay away from that stuff because it’s not me, it’s not something I’d want to be associated with, so I don’t go near it. There have been few, but most of them were probably with my old account (which is yet another reason why I decided to start fresh.) Going to my profile, reading the things I’ve asked and answered, you could pretty much figure out me, and what I’m all about.

I think I’ve shown many different and real sides of myself on many of the questions here. I guess I like myself most on some of the heartfelt teenaged aor parenting questions where I have responded helpfully and compassionately. Examples would be a recent one about a 15 year old who is having a miscarriage and a boy wondering how awkward the first time is. I alos have a playful (sarky?) side and enjoy skewering pretentiousness. (That’s the “Jane Austen” in me – I wish!). I am passionate about politics and the world and will get involved in those questions until they devolve into two people shouting at each other. And I do love having some good running jokes with people and the occasional pun war.

I’ll second @janbb. It really depends on my mood. I really enjoy intelligent conversation and matching wits with a few jellies who like to pun and really play with words. I do my best to avoid drama and self indulgent silliness but occasionally I let my fangs show over what is really trivia but has annoyed me to the point of saying something.
I’m really not as passionate about politics or religion but I’m always fascinated by the things people say about those particular subjects and I will jump in if I feel that someone is being unfair or is just plain “bashing” whether I personally agree with the philosophy or not. I am intolerant about blatant stupidity and willful ignorance, but again, I try to just ignore it. I try to help if I feel someone has asked a genuine question and has already attempted to help him/herself, but I get extremely put out if a person asks the same question again and again and doesn’t listen to what the group said the first time. It’s like repeating myself to my kids or an SO. If you weren’t listening the first time, why would I waste my time and breath a second, and how do I know you’ll not ignore that as well?
See? I just got off a twelve hour night shift and haven’t been to bed yet so I’m really cranky. Another time I may have answered this question totally differently.

@janbb: My jokes fall more in the line of power walking.

The online communication medium will inevitably alter behaviours due to technical issues, such as having the time to think something through as opposed to offline, or how your reactions and perceptions may change upon waiting for feedback, or again how anonymity may allow you to say things you wouldn’t otherwise dare to say like how I eat food off the ground but in the end, I don’t think I’m much different other than I don’t talk as much in real life to strangers.

@Symbeline (in Gomez Addams voice) I love it when you use big words.

@stranger_in_a_strange_land I don’t always utilize them offline, but I still have sexy goth dresses made for arm nibbling. :D

@Symbeline Delicious, too! :^D

I saw this question when you first posted it, but I didn’t have an answer at the time. I’ve since thought about it and come to the conclusion that there probably isn’t any interaction on Fluther that represents how I perceive myself. Piecing together how I think I’m viewed and how people interact with me, I feel like only a part of me is represented here.

I have a feeling that I come across one way online, but that way doesn’t do me much justice. I have a sense of humor that is kind of dry, sarcastic, and goofy. A fair amount of my funnies rely on a tone of voice, or a funny voice, or inserting the perfect one-liner into conversation. I take Fluther seriously in the sense that I’m sensitive to people wanting answers and not jokes, but I don’t think I’m really as serious as I come across. I think if there were a Fluther meetup, people might be surprised at who I really am. I’m charming, kind, approachable, witty, funny, friendly, mischievous, amongst other things that I don’t think come across well here. It’s kind of part of my Fluther dysphoria, in that I can’t seem to be entirely who I feel I am here. It’s not like I think it’d go over badly, I just can’t seem to get out of this way of being on this site.