How often do you guys form an opinion
 

How often do you form an opinion about someone just from GFY just from their nicks or a few posts that you may or may not agree with before ever actually meeting them or having a conversation in some form or another be it on ICQ or whatnot?


For example, I have made a few judgments about people from GFY that are probably not true and I try to keep an open mind about them before closing the book (except camrabbit)

Just my :2 cents: but I think it would be foolhardy to judge someone or make presumptions about them just from GFY (except camrabbit)

That's what we're here for.

as often as necessary

Some people really think I'm a pirate, and look like my sig guy :1orglaugh

Yargh! You mean you're not a pirate??!! :1orglaugh

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't form an opinion. Like you say, its nearly impossible to really tell what a person is like IRL just from their online personna.

Some people adopt an online personality that is quite incongruous with who and what they're like in person - for whatever reason. Fantasy, roleplay...call it what you will. Some like to make themselves out to be larger-than-life, making up for shortcomings in their own real lives.

Others still are timid when it comes to posting publically, afraid to ruffle feathers or disseminate an opinion in case it comes under attack and they're unable to defend themselves.

I've pre-judged a few people online over the years, wound up meeting them at a convention or social function, and found myself wrong just as many times as I was accurate. A few I've met were dead on-the-money in reality as what I imagined them to be.

Sometimes I get a real 'sixth-sense' about some folks, though - a real solid impression of them online, an element of either genuine goodness or downright malevolence...that I just know deep-down I wouldn't get along with IRL.

I rock ,

most people think my real name is fris :p

Don't fret..some people think my real name is C-unt, could they be right? :upsidedow