Who are you when you interact on line?

On line, interacting with strangers who become online friends; are you the same person,  as when interacting with friends and family in everyday encounters? Do you enhance your personality. become wittier, livelier, sexier?

Interactions by text, messenger,face to face video can be more intense, more intimate but still remote, does that enable you to become the person you would really like to be? Have you ever misrepresented your age? Used a picture of a younger self or suspected that somebody you are interacting with is doing just that?

Eve thinks the internet may be liberating allowing a freer expression of self..

A fragment of text conversation on a Crozzle game between Eve one of the protaganists in Converging Lives and a young man she is playing the game with.

E ‘ Just made tea. Shakey a nice play, was just thinking that happens, just before the stiffening and the cumming! My mind!! Laughing’

J ‘ Funny same here, also drinking tea great minds hey?’

E ‘Yep….tea…and naughly thoughts…excellent combination!J HAH I am really enjoying our chats Eve, you make me laugh, and you have such a young approach to life.’

E. ‘Unfortunately getting old now Jim.’

J ‘ Why do consider that unfortunate  You’re full of life An amazing woman  I really don’t consider your age unfortunate With age comes grace.’

E ‘ No its a fact of life…. can’t change it…don’t think I have got to the grace bit yet!! Still in the disgrace phase I think!!! Lol.’

J. ‘hahahaha’

E ‘Well….My head has not caught up with the rest of me…..the trouble or the good about cyber interactions  is it allows one to be free and untrammelled in a way one could not be real life…. so one can be oneself … the person inside the persona..so maybe showing a side one would not, in real time interactions..maybe outside of societys conventions.’

J ‘Oh wow Eve getting deep.’

Do you think people change their personae on the internet? Become the person they would like to be? Would love your views.