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Originally Posted by IceColdSpear
Yes well like I said in the OP this situation fits into my real life situation. The Internet should be for everybody, I own it just as much as you and the next guy. But it has greatly affected my real life depression as a key tool to vent and get acceptance was taken away from me. I try not to box myself in with terms such as "sensitive"; rather, I would like to see myself as thoughtful and realistic. The only real times I am ever truly sensitive or soft is when I am with loved ones or by myself where the judgemental eyes of the world are not staring down upon me.
But with how things are these days I also realize that you need to give yourself a hard image, or else things might not go as good for you. But I have my own problems and would rather not constantly puff my chest out to make a point to other people when it seems so needless to begin with.
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Hey man, interesting topic for sure. Thanks for posting it. Sorry you feel like you're going through this.
I thought about it since I've been around on the internet for a looong long time, on pretty much every social form of it from BBS to newsgroups and IRC etc.
Everything on the internet is different. There's a kind of language to every place that you'll go. There's also often an unspoken rule set that goes along with it. Unless the place is meant for it (like here), you have to learn that and absorb it before you can really join in.
I noticed you have a slight tendency towards purple prose in your first post. Are you joining communities and pulling out the figurative big theatrical verbal guns on them? I can be kind of an esoteric wordy guy sometimes, so I'm not judging. It's just you have to sometimes tone that down to avoid alienating an audience. People can sometimes take it as you trying to show them up even if you don't mean to.
I may be way off though! The Internet can definitely be a harsh/difficult place.