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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
One man sees a parasite, another sees a symbiotic relationship.
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A study of online personae compared with real personalities would be most interesting. I'm sure Hitch, in real life, is a pussycat and generous to a fault.
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Well, good luck in finding anyone who thinks so. I'm generous to charities and no-kill shelters, but I don't suffer fools gladly. Being a successful project manager and developer in the RE Development world means you don't make many friends if you want to deliver your hotels and other commercial buildings on-time and on-budget. I don't think you'd be able to locate anyone who would concur with your "pussycat" description, but you are most welcome to try. Mostly because I would actually really love to meet someone who thought so highly of me.
Nor do I indulge in "internet personas." As everyone can see, I don't post pseudonymously, here or anywhere else. I post as "myself." I wear everything I post. Unlike most of the folks here, and at the KDP, I don't have the "luxury" a a faux-persona. I'm not some Gamer, pretending to be something I'm not. I'm not one of the 299-out-of-every-300 men who claim to be Army Rangers or Seals who are claiming so falsely. I'm not one of the thousands of women claiming to be "forensic anthropologists" (of which ONE has been licensed in the last decade). And the personality you "see" here is exactly the same person that my staff sees every day. Unlike 90+% of you people, I can't just abandon some now-inconvenient persona and reinvent a new one the next day. My usernames, my profiles: they are all me and my business. Not imaginary constructs. So before you decide that I have some "type" of internet personality, keep that in mind.
In fact: I am
more polite,
more restrained and far
less scathing on Internet forums and chatrooms and Groups than I am in person, on the phone, or in private email. Because I'm running
a very real business, and Internet postings live forever. I'm not some bloviating 14-year-old pretending to be somebody else. I'm nicer, by far, on the forums, than I am "in real life," because to me, the entire "internet persona" pseudonymous posting mode is a puerile excuse for bad behavior. You can pretty much bank on the idea that if I've said something here that someone interprets as a "rant," it's nothing compared to what I've said face-to-face in a real conversation with real people. And that's all I'm going to say on this increasingly silly and time-wasting thread, in which suddenly, I've gone from some dude with "anger management issues" to a woman who's a "pussycat in real life."
Just freaking perfect.
So, unless you folks all want to come 100% clean about who YOU are, and what YOU are, and what your businesses ARE, their size, their number of converted books, their authors, your annual workload, and
be as transparent as I have to be:
We're done here. At least, we certainly are about me and my business. You are all welcome to talk about yourselves until you're hoarse.
Hitch