With me, good ol' blixco is the bright parts, the sharp bits of whatever jason is.  And that's really the only difference, and it's really only when I'm writing a story.  When I'm writing comments, I tend to be me.

That hasn't always been the case.  But it is now, and I'm comfortable with it.
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Taken out of context I must seem so strange - Ani DiFranco

And then there's the cerebral mood I get in sometimes that seems to bore most people. And my various religious moods that delight and titilate all of HuSi.

I wouldn't really call them sub-personalities. But they all are part of composite person.

And they're each a different flavor of honesty about who it is that i am. Turned out to be much richer and more complex than i had imagined before i started writing it all out. one of them won for me the love of a similarly complex unique snowflake, unlike all the others.

And like many things odd, they've attracted their share of cheap shots and prejudice. I do appreciate the acceptance that the husi community has shown.

Can you introspect out loud? --CRwM

If you were a red neck, I was a flaming gay, if you were gay, I was a red neck, if you were feminist I was the lord of the patriarchy, whatever. I was also vicious.

Also, despite being an utter computer geek - with all the combat skills that implies - I could radiate an air of "don't mess with me" that made me a popular person to bring along for late night trips into the worse sections of the city.

Once I got laid fell into a long term relationship I pretty much lost the ability.

I suspect a strong freudian connection between those days and my current user name.

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You're no good to me dead. Even half-alive would be socially awkward. - Hugh MacLeod

I've had other identities in other places -- at least four ways I've signed correspondence other than my given name -- though I don't know if they're all so terribly distinct. Any persona I've inhabited for a while goes through some sort of evolution, anyway.

Though really this was all filler just to say: johnny, check your email.

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"later" meant either "when you walk around the corner" or "oatmeal."

I have five distinct personalities.  Home Jim, Work Jim, Boss Jim, Dad Jim, and Jimgon.  Sub-personalities are too numerous to number.  Jimgon and Work Jim have several fractured personalities that I'm unsure if they qualify as actual personaes.

Years pass, things change, you end up living in Kansas. But the bag of dicks never leaves your side... - blixco
--top hat--

It's pretty fluid though, there's basically 5 that stick around all the time, the rest get louder and softer as is their wont.

I use them all in one way or another in various situations. They are as useful as they are a burden.

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"I always percieved the Q to be more about laughing at sadness, not laughing per se." -infinitera

The other two don't come out in polite company, and one has been fairly silent for the last few years.

"I don't have time for martial law, I have to get to the gym!" zarathus

That johnny has changed was, to me at least, pretty obvious.

Although in actual fact sometimes I suppose they are not especially distinct.

I think this is one of the most interesting aspects of the whole issue -- that people sometimes try to form a new online identity, and utterly fail at it. Their new online identity is transparent, and obviously their old one. It has changed in name only.

Contrast this with the opposite situation; that you find (and blixco) find yourself in, where the name is the same but the identity is clearly different. (As an aside, I think blixco is wrong if he's claiming a sharp divide between comment-blixco and diary-blixco. blixco's comments in response to coillte are almost always done as diary-blixco, I think. The distinction is mostly there, but it does blur around some edges.)

Complicating the situation further is the experience of meeting these people "in real life", and contrasting the "public face" that people project with their prominent online persona. mrgoat's public face is mrgoat. ana's is not ana (I do not refer to gender here).

Online identity can be unbelievably valuable for exploring facets of yourself that your public face does not express, but it also seems strangely limited. Particularly in an interactive environment (like the scooposphere) people's identities, no matter no fictitious the surface details are, seem to be pulled toward correlation with some facet of their actual personality, albeit often one that's never expressed outside of their head. Perhaps it is simply that these are the identities people want to explore -- that developing a character who is entirely different from yourself is unrewarding. Or perhaps the interaction with others and the continuing, day to day nature of online conversation pressures online identities toward actual ones simply as the path of least resistance.

Eh. I'll stop now. I love this topic.


Think metahistorically, act locally. -- CheeseburgerBrown