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Originally Posted by Kergan
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"In the case of neuroticism, a different effect occurred. On the computer and the Internet participants report higher emotional stability than in the offline world"
This study clearly did not include Red99.
Brobb's intuitive assertion that people do not have two separate personalities that manifest between real life and the internet does seem to be valid. The internet is simply a means of communicating while maintaining anonymity. In this sense we are all the same person on line and off line: the difference is that we are free to speak our minds without suffering the same repercussions as we would in the real world.
You don't become a different person when you sit down in your computer chair: you simply enjoy a less structured, and less punishing, social environment.