My window on the web

[altariel]

All right then, here's my Johari Window thing.

Comments

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

Narrowing it down to 'five or six' is very difficult :)

[kerravonsen]

Agreed. And then you think again and wish you could change them.

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

These things are fascinating, especially in the context of an online journal. Do our real selves come through in our writing, especially over time?

I've generally found that they do--I think that of all the online friends I've eventually met in person, only one has ever really surprised me by being very different from her written self-presentation.

Anyway, I chimed in. Hope it's educational. Am awaiting feedback on my own now, too.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think I was fairly naive when I first came online and really put myself out there. I went through a more closed period after a couple of flame wars and nutjob experiences but these days... I think I'm largely WYSIWYG!

[emeraldsedai.livejournal.com]

In the very early days (funny to think of the mid-90s as the very early days of enything), I found my way to common-interest bulletin boards, one of which was an astrology forum.

Innocently posting away about horoscopes, I was astonished one day to get an email from an apparently fundamentalist Christian lurker. YOU ARE A IDOT, the note read, and went on to tell me about how I was going to go to hell, etc., for my satanic beliefs, etc., all in similarly literary style, all in caps.

It didn't stop me posting about whatever I damn well pleased, but ever since then, if I'm particularly annoyed with myself, I mutter that I am a idot.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I am a idot

By their works shall ye know them. Brilliant. Up there with: "I am a genius and always rigt."