Who are you on social media?

"She posted a photo and captioned 'Went jogging this morning' and wore clogs with her yoga pants and sweater." A friend of mine said. "I don't know which is more ridiculous? Her fashion, or the fact that I was there when she posted the photo and the jogging thing didn't happen. I mean, seriously, who the fuck is she kidding?"

I remembered a conversation I had with friend who told me that people are into their online profiles because that's the place where they create their own realities. I know exactly what she meant and I didn't want to be one of those, but I have to admit I am different online VS in real life. So who am I really in real life?

• I think I am friendlier in virtual space. I always have my walls up when it comes to meeting new people or people that I don't really mesh with.
• The stuff that I write in my blog are the exact same stories you will hear from my mouth, only I am more animated and detailed when I'm sharing with friends.
• I am more comfortable writing in English because ideas are faster to translate and my British cousins read my blog. 
• I downplay things that I write here after discovering some people (acquaintance) reads my blog and quotes me in conversations...with me.
• Sometimes I miss blogging the way I did in my twenties, no holds barred, but maturity kicks in, and we have laws about the cyberspace now. Besides, I'd rather fight my inner monsters face-to-face than sulk in front of the computer and be a keyboard warrior (borrowed that term from my friend Martin).

Let me cut the enumeration thing before I become too narcissistic. I saw something the other day that reminded me of people in real life vs online persona. I ran into someone I know at a party and we got into talking. She has this obnoxious, know-it-all persona online (and earned her fair share of haters) and while we were talking, all this time, I was thinking she's not really that bad in person, but I too must admit that if I didn't know her, her posts on social media comes off as arrogant. And strangely, watching this phenomenon, I was amused.

Few weeks later, I saw her comment on one of the blogs that I happened to stumble upon. It was a blog that she frequents, apparently, and her posts and comments sounded nothing like her real self. Maybe she's trying to impress that blogger, by commenting how she too can relate, blah blah (here I go downplaying again). I'm getting too old for this kind of shit, but anyway, I think we all have people we are all trying to impress, like me, I try to impress and please my clients, both current and potential. Maybe in her case, it just so happen that despite her recent accomplishments both in her career and personal life, she still needs to earn some kind of validation from the "cool kids on the internet".

But at the end of the day...