The Profile is the Message in the Medium

/me is still trying to work out how useful a "sleeping dictionary" would be . . .

Pep (since he was always told one shouldn't speak with one's mouth full. )

Good one, Pep!!!

You didn't catch my point, but pardon...thought I spotted a moment of lucidness in you....but I was mistaken. Carry on.

I loved those books! \(^_^)/

And since I'm here, I might as well put in my two cents' worth...

I think it's just fine that some people want to share so much about themselves, and I think it's also fine not to do so. As has been pointed out, some of us are introverts and some extroverts; that alone can be useful information when interacting with people.

If some people choose not to talk to me because of what is (or is not) in my profile, I consider it a good thing. It means that my profile is doing its job perfectly by screening out those with whom I wouldn't get along well.

Oh.

Since my 2nd week in SL i guess, i have had a RL pic in my profile. Sometimes i update it with the holiday, other times i update it weekly. I have thought removing it at times but i don't think it matters anymore.

You can also see me on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/brianadawsonsl#play/uploads

Well, if you are 'super stiff' it works for you, Briana. Gorgeous, as well.

Beautiful voice!





(and really nice boobies... sorry, someone had to say it )

Well you have a point there.

lol

Meh...it's just my opinion Bri. Only means something to me.

Love the vids, thanks for sharing. You can really sing!

No thanks. It's mine and I will decide what is or isn't in it.

Creation by committee? No thanks.

I can completely understand why some people decide not to put things about themselves in their profile. Some people like to give out this information on a one-to-one basis rather than broadcasting it to a wider audience of whoever happens to be scanning profiles in search.

Even more so when denizens of at least one other SL forum habitually post details from profiles in order to ridicule them publicly for the amusement of the others there.

People who put too much store by what is in or not in a person's profile really need to get a better perspective on things. In my opinion.

It might be valid to argue that repeat posters on Rez Ans. take profiling to the "nth degree". We corroborate our profile persona with our forum statements and in the process invest our avatars with our realities and vice versa. We straddle the bridge between reality and secondlife. Metaversed citizens.

Others of us are just lazy and haven't looked at our profiles since 2006.
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Except you don't really do you? I know I have seen you and other people who consider SL as an extension of their RL selves, often say something to the effect of "I am much different inworld" or others say it about them.
I have actually come to regard most things you say as very unreliable and untrustworthy anyway as you seem to say one thing and do another most often.

Then I am human. But definitely NOT untrustworthy. In real I am a woman of my bond - I have to be. In sl I support and do NOT betray - if I have lovers (and I do) it is because my partner allows me to for private reasons. Unreliable? Not when it comes to my career. In sl? Only when rl beckons in any way.
I am human. Not avatar.

I thought you were supposed to be the same out there as in here? I thought you invested your persona in your avatar and had straddled the metaversal gap or whatever? I thought that was the point?

Jig was just being Jig-cheeky

Speaking for myself, I am a little bit different in-world than on the forums; I will generally not debate someone on a person-to-person basis and avoid conflict wherever possible. That is very much the RL me. But here in the forums you get the "writer me." So I might come across as more "head-on" here and I have also caught myself ranting about things that upset me (which itself upsets me...lol). I can't speak for Jig, but that's me

On the other hand, for some people it might be a good idea ...

I just had to pop back into this thread and say that I think this is definitely probably an introvert/extrovert thing. Introverts probably feel a little more reassured by knowing something about the other person before fully engaging in conversation. A few of the extroverts I know are so friendly that they talk to just about everyone they encounter (which I do find charming and sometimes try to emulate, only somewhat successfully).

Perhaps subject matter is part of it as well... I don't like to talk about superficial things very much and thus I am not the best conversationalist with absolute strangers.

I have a very full profile. There is info on on the front about who i am and my thoughts feelings ideal are in the pics Its to long to put in here but if anyone wants to look at it and talk about parts in it its fine with me

As an introvert. I agree with this.

I'm not an introvert or an extrovert. I'm more a sidewaysvert.

As a per-vert I'm far too busy camming underneath their skirt to bother looking at their profile.

Hmmm...Profile Panties? There may be a marketing possibility here.