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.
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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to me, Twitter is already "society". Twitter can be different than offline society and can be treated differently -- some people are more comfortable talking here so it's their main social outlet. someone who is uncivil here is, in my mind, uncivil.
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