The internet - a playground for the ID or a mirror for the superego?

MrBishop

MrBishop

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I have a dual citizenship. I am Canadian and a Netizen of the WWW. I spend a lot of time online, both for my business and my relaxation time. It's addictive, but why?

The inteternet is a playground for my ID. I can do anything, say anything, see anything on here. If I have a penceant for sex and nudity, the internet is there, if I want to dabble in perversions, there's always *cough*-edited by Luis G . If I want to simulate rape, I can go to certain MUDS etc... violence, hate, food, sex, drugs, moremoremore. I can kill and die on here and my only limit is my imagination and the speed at which I can type!!!

The internet is also a mirror for my superego. Am I normal? Am I breaking any rules? Are there rules that should or should not be broken or bent. I can post here, or on any of the thousands of BBS's online, a topic of my choice, and get responces. Some responces come accross as sugar-coated plattitudes, others as outright attacks and excercises in minutae-management. I can then take it all in, find the median and call it 'normal', and then compare myself to it.

In either case, I consider the internet and sites like this one as a time-consuming and yet rewarding excersize in Freudian dynamics on a global scale.

Comments?
 
well I have to admit that I too spend an unhealthy amount of time online and so get upto all kinds of mischief.

There are places that I go if I want to talk dirty, places for trolling, places to be nice, places to meet people, places to fight, then I have my own site which I am currently trying to develop and make better before attempting to recruit anymore new members.

It's a good job that I'm unemployed otherwise I would be struggling to fit my 18-20 hours of surfing in a day.

Darn that job where I got involved with an online helpdesk. If it hadn't been for that I never would have got into the forums scene and so would have just played the odd game on yahoo and that would have been that.

Mind you I do know a lot of useless crap about cable TV and stuff like that in my local area and so I could go back to the technical sites and post there as a clued up customer but that wouldn't be working very well seeing as they know me too well over there and after I left the company I did a little trolling and got myself into a lot of trouble.

I have a selcted group of sites that I go between when I feel the need to troll so I wont be doing that on here. The sites that I use for trolling know me well and I am not the only troll on them so it makes interesting arguements.

Should a site require a resident troll then I can locate one from somewhere on the net and so find that by bringing another troll to a site if things need livening up a bit that I dont troll there then because there is someone else there to be the resident troll.

I think that this site seems like a lot of fun and so I think that we are all going to get along just splendidly and have a right good laugh and joke.

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I have found that I can let the 'inner' me show easier to people I don't know on the net (like before they're good friends of mine) than I can in real life. And I can indulge my sexual fantasies a bit [[hides handcuffs behind back]] Ahem. I know people who know or at least like me enough to put up with my crap when i'm having a bad time, so it's all good :D
 
I like to kill and maim online. its so GRATIFYING watching gibs tumble not so gracefully from the epicentre of a 'splosion of my own doing. D'ya reckon if you took every online FPS gamer of at least average quality and put them into a real qar they'd have a chance?
 
Wacky Nacky said:
I have found that I can let the 'inner' me show easier to people I don't know on the net (like before they're good friends of mine) than I can in real life. And I can indulge my sexual fantasies a bit [[hides handcuffs behind back]] Ahem. I know people who know or at least like me enough to put up with my crap when i'm having a bad time, so it's all good :D
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Def easier to let your inhibitions go and just get on with stuff online.

shan't mention the S&M and other stuff just yet
 
steweygrrrr said:
. D'ya reckon if you took every online FPS gamer of at least average quality and put them into a real qar they'd have a chance?
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I don't know...I wouldn't think so, but then again, a lot of the heavy 'School Shootings" came from FPS backgrounds. YOu figure if they live long enough to take out a few teachers and students that they might live for a few days in a war sit.
 
What if you made it a virtual war....remote controlled robot operated by humans behind the lines. Would be zacktly like a game
 
i think its between the id adn the superego since i try to keep my own personality but im less afraid and more willing to flirt and whatnot on here. that and some of the sites ive enjoyed have soem viokence or sexuality(or porn) so thats for the id. for the superego im more willing to admit to people on here or IRL how i cant have sex unless im in love with the woman so thats for teh superego
 
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