^ Ummm, complete misinterpretation of my comments. The obvious rhetorical question is a tad pretentious; of course we're all real people. What I'm saying is that even though you were saying it sarcastically, a lot of people on the internet actually do act as if they've created a persona for it. This doesn't really apply to places like Facebook, but for message boards, most definitely. Certainly not everyone is this way, but people online (specifically message board users, people on last.fm, etc.) act completely different from how they'd ever even dream of acting in front of other people, face to face, or in the "real world" as I would actually call it. In that aspect, I absolutely think that the internet and the real world are two separate things, but only for people who chose for it to be that way. Oftentimes that's the case though.
That's why I don't think people should take the internet seriously. If you do, you're bound to get offended by people who see no boundaries as far as expressing their opinion, as extreme as it may be. Hell, just go and look at the comments on the majority of popular Youtube videos and you'll see quite a few disgusting comments that probably 85% of the people writing them wouldn't say to anyone else in real life. I could go on, but I'd hope that you got the point by now.
v To avoid making another post about this and going more off-topic: it looks like we agree then. Guess we just have different ways of thinking about it. Whatever, not important
