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Originally Posted by GreenLantern
So when you go for a job interview your boss googles your name and your WOW account pops up...?
Annthing I say on the message board I am now accountable for with potential job suitors? Give me a break. I play MMO's to unwind and take on the persona of another person. In Ultima Online and DAoC I just PKEd the crap out of everyone, no mercy, greifing was fun. In real life I am the nicest guy you will ever meet and will go out of my way for strangers. I don't think my online profile accurately reflects my attitude, nor do I want it to.
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I find this very interesting - I’m not singling you out by any stretch, but I’ve been reading this thread because I’m interested in seeing opinions on this development.
Other than for reasons of personal safety and privacy, which I feel are vastly overblown, I’m somewhat surprised that people are so keen to maintain two totally separate identities, their online one and their real world one. What really surprises me is that the main reason, though, ultimately, is that there is no internal consistency between the two, and people do not want their real world image affected by their online behaviour.
I wonder if this trend will reverse at some point in the future, when people realize that the internet is not going away, and having a corpus of good content and contributions on the internet, or at the very least, signs of a healthy mental outlook, will be integral to your real world image, rather than an adjunct to it.