- May 6, 2001
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With all the "explain your nick/title/sig/avatar/etc" at the moment its become appropriate to finally post one of these threads that goes round in my head for weeks.....
Whether we like it or not we all judge people we meet on first appearance, whether it be their clothes, the way they act, their hair style, their friends, their race, what shop they are in or whatever. Does the same apply to people's internet appearance?
Do u find yourself developing mental images and giving people personalities based on their nickname? avatar? signature? title? or how they write the replies (not talking about content), whether it be neatly set out with obvious use of italics/bold/underline.. or one big long paragraph with no spaces.... ? or their use of smilies? etc etc
How much of an effect do u think these things have on how much you like someone? Might it take you longer/shorter to like someone depending on their appearance? Do find yourself concentrating on certain individuals if u like their nick/avatar/etc before you even know what they are like?
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For me personally i think it has a bit of an effect. So many people have similar nicknames (anything about dreams, water, seasons, 'black') that it becomes hard to differentiate sometimes. Such people im less interested in if i dont know them.
I find myself not as interested in people (at first) with names with underscores, uncapatalised letters, numbers tacked on the end, cliche words (includes all obvious opeth titles) and so on. I guess these things are because i value creativity and originallity.
Avatar's are very useful in giving someone an identity, and most people i think of as a mixture of their nickname/avatar... but i dont think i really judge it that much, people without avatars, and people with those huge smiley faces dont get my attention at first, but for the most part an avatar doesnt tell me much about the person. I guess they are one of 3 things.. art, comedy, or a personal pic of some sort, and doesnt really help to identify what a person is like (unless their avatar is badly done, or really well done.. i guess i might notice that in a small way)
Signatures/titles i dont judge at all.
As for the way they write, i tend to notice people who use all the colours and italics/underlines/bolds through their posts because most people dont. And it can get hard reading a huge paragraph so i might think negatively if i see one of those from someone i dont know. But being internet im used to people with not-so-good english so i dont judge based on such things as messy setting out.
Of course all these things are only initial reactions, i know that not everyone fits with their appearance so my initial thoughts don't mean anything once ive read enough posts to start learning what somebody is really like.
anyway, this topic really didnt deserve as much as i wrote and id be suprised if anyone even reads it all or writes more than a paragraph in reply. but oh well, im bored.
Whether we like it or not we all judge people we meet on first appearance, whether it be their clothes, the way they act, their hair style, their friends, their race, what shop they are in or whatever. Does the same apply to people's internet appearance?
Do u find yourself developing mental images and giving people personalities based on their nickname? avatar? signature? title? or how they write the replies (not talking about content), whether it be neatly set out with obvious use of italics/bold/underline.. or one big long paragraph with no spaces.... ? or their use of smilies? etc etc
How much of an effect do u think these things have on how much you like someone? Might it take you longer/shorter to like someone depending on their appearance? Do find yourself concentrating on certain individuals if u like their nick/avatar/etc before you even know what they are like?
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For me personally i think it has a bit of an effect. So many people have similar nicknames (anything about dreams, water, seasons, 'black') that it becomes hard to differentiate sometimes. Such people im less interested in if i dont know them.
I find myself not as interested in people (at first) with names with underscores, uncapatalised letters, numbers tacked on the end, cliche words (includes all obvious opeth titles) and so on. I guess these things are because i value creativity and originallity.
Avatar's are very useful in giving someone an identity, and most people i think of as a mixture of their nickname/avatar... but i dont think i really judge it that much, people without avatars, and people with those huge smiley faces dont get my attention at first, but for the most part an avatar doesnt tell me much about the person. I guess they are one of 3 things.. art, comedy, or a personal pic of some sort, and doesnt really help to identify what a person is like (unless their avatar is badly done, or really well done.. i guess i might notice that in a small way)
Signatures/titles i dont judge at all.
As for the way they write, i tend to notice people who use all the colours and italics/underlines/bolds through their posts because most people dont. And it can get hard reading a huge paragraph so i might think negatively if i see one of those from someone i dont know. But being internet im used to people with not-so-good english so i dont judge based on such things as messy setting out.
Of course all these things are only initial reactions, i know that not everyone fits with their appearance so my initial thoughts don't mean anything once ive read enough posts to start learning what somebody is really like.
anyway, this topic really didnt deserve as much as i wrote and id be suprised if anyone even reads it all or writes more than a paragraph in reply. but oh well, im bored.