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I've never been overly weirded out by meeting people from the Internet (going to Gooncon came close), but I will say it was definitely strange the first time so

by jarin 16y ago

I've never been overly weirded out by meeting people from the Internet (going to Gooncon came close), but I will say it was definitely strange the first time some completely random stranger came up to me in a bar and said "You're Jarin, right? I follow you on Twitter!" Strange in a good way though, I bought the guy a beer :)

shii 16y ago
I'd never go to somewhere like Gooncon, too high a possibility of meeting people who take everything on SA seriously in real life. Do you ever get a sense of The Truman Show going to cons and meetups with people from the internet? I'd imagine it's really strange to find all these random people who know your name and a shit-ton of information about you at these events.
- zacharycohn 16y ago
  It's not weird (or at least it never was for me), because you know all those people too! The point of the article was that people "on the internet" are real people too.
  - pyre 16y ago
    I think shii's point was more about 'lurkers' showing up and trying to talk to you like they know you, even though they've never even communicated with you online or offline.
- jarin 16y ago
  It's not really that different from going to tech meetups or events and meeting people you talk to on HN or Twitter. I guess you just have to accept the reality that if you spend a lot of time online, your persona exists as much on the Internet as it does in real life.
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JonnieCache 16y ago
Was gooncon as horrifying in real life as it appeared to someone looking at the photos? I'm talking about the first one or two, I stopped reading SA just after that. Thinking about it, weren't there only two? Didn't lowtax say something like, "let us never speak of this again"?
- jarin 16y ago
  I went to the one in New Orleans, I forget which year it was but I think it was the 3rd one? Lowtax wasn't there, but I think a couple of the admins were. It was probably 90% super awkward nerds trying to "hilariously" ask my black friend (also an SA poster) if he stole radios for a living, and 10% people who were chill and fun to hang out with. The two groups separated pretty quickly. Although we did take one of the super awkward nerds under our wing, which was pretty fun.

by jarin 16y ago

shii 16y ago

I'd never go to somewhere like Gooncon, too high a possibility of meeting people who take everything on SA seriously in real life. Do you ever get a sense of The Truman Show going to cons and meetups with people from the internet? I'd imagine it's really strange to find all these random people who know your name and a shit-ton of information about you at these events.

zacharycohn 16y ago
It's not weird (or at least it never was for me), because you know all those people too! The point of the article was that people "on the internet" are real people too.
- pyre 16y ago
  I think shii's point was more about 'lurkers' showing up and trying to talk to you like they know you, even though they've never even communicated with you online or offline.
jarin 16y ago
It's not really that different from going to tech meetups or events and meeting people you talk to on HN or Twitter. I guess you just have to accept the reality that if you spend a lot of time online, your persona exists as much on the Internet as it does in real life.

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JonnieCache 16y ago

Was gooncon as horrifying in real life as it appeared to someone looking at the photos? I'm talking about the first one or two, I stopped reading SA just after that. Thinking about it, weren't there only two? Didn't lowtax say something like, "let us never speak of this again"?

jarin 16y ago
I went to the one in New Orleans, I forget which year it was but I think it was the 3rd one? Lowtax wasn't there, but I think a couple of the admins were. It was probably 90% super awkward nerds trying to "hilariously" ask my black friend (also an SA poster) if he stole radios for a living, and 10% people who were chill and fun to hang out with. The two groups separated pretty quickly. Although we did take one of the super awkward nerds under our wing, which was pretty fun.