if you know someone IRL and see them presenting themselves on twitter as someone quite different, does it bother you?
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I think a few people feel liberated by having an online persona which they can't reify IRL. In all the cases I'm thinking of, the online persona is more caustic and opinionated, and I suspect social unacceptability is the reason it gets constrained to online life.
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But it always makes me wonder, which persona is more the façade, and which is more the reality? I'm a bit torn between distrusting someone who presents two conflicting personae, and being happy for them for having found an outlet to express themselves.
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it seems like you could be happy for them and also distrust them. do you want to enter into a closer relationship or start a business with a person who might be caustic and antisocial or might be just fine, but you can't know yet because there's a conflict?
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