Memeage

[oyceter]

Another take on that odd writing meme going around:

What kind of person do you think I am from my LJ, if that's how you know me? Or, alternately, if you know me off my LJ as well, how does me off-LJ differ from me on-LJ?

I figure this is less puzzling than figuring it out from people's fiction. Also, the divide or the odd shift between the written word and the spoken always interests me. I keep finding that when I meet LJ people in RL, they feel different from what I expected, but they still sound exactly like their LJ. It's just that my perception was shifted somewhat, and when I meet them, it gets realigned or something.

Comments

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

I can't answer this one because knowing off-LJ you completely informs my perception of on-LJ you.

And I do not want to ask this meme myself; I've been asking it in various forms over the years and the answers I always get dishearten me. I think it's getting about time that I quit with the personal stuff on LJ again and go back to the fannish-only, because that's the only way I can control my identity.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

The you that I remember meeting for the first time last year was entirely congruent with the you I knew from LJ-- more so than most people I've met whom I first knew online.

People who knew me online then met me in person generally say that I was exactly what they expected, only shorter and with a higher voice.

[oyceter]

Interesting!

You sounded pretty much the same as well, except, of course, higher-pitched.

It was really interesting reading your book after I'd met you, because I could hear your voice in my head rewading it out loud.