You Called It Freak, We Called It Alter Ego

HELLO

Back after 2 days, kinda surprising don't you think?
Shortly, today I'm too lazy for back tracking what I've been doing in the past year(s), so here I am starting to blabber, unimportant things, as usual.

I don't remember whether I ever talked about people with their alter ego before.


Alter ego, or you called it a second self, is a different version of yourself. Simply said, it's actually you, but with the distinct originality. To be in rhyme, the alter ego that I'm talking in here is just the 'simple' one that people normally created. So, unlike the fiction Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, no, that kind of alter ego is too heavy.

Sometimes, you're not even realized that you've created your alter ego in your real life. As simple as this case: You in your normal daily life are known as someone with an 'A' personality, whether in another circle, you've been known with a 'B', or 'C', and so on.

Rarely seeing someone in the real life with very distinct personality? You will see it a lot in the comparison between people in the real life vs their social media life.

Social media is the easiest place to create your brand new persona. Who's with me if I said, building your showboat virtually is easier rather than acting it out directly towards people? Yes, not all people can stand upright on their own faking parade and doing their stunts smoothly, so that they will choose a perfect undercover medium called social media.

I bet you know that some of your friends have more than one account in a social media platform (or maybe yourself?). For example, there are a lot of people in Twitter/Instagram who create another persona because of various purposes.

First case, they have an interest towards something that they don't want to known by anyone because it will ruin their 'image' in the daily normal life. We found it a lot on the topic of k-pop/j-pop thingy, shopping account, or secret account just for tweeting your gloomy day. Second case, they want to build a branding account, such as account for only posting their 'receh' jokes, account for photography, account for role play, etc. Third case, they just want to have another account for personal reasons.

For me, it's kinda normal tho?
Sometimes, people want this kind of freedom feeling when you do 'unusual activities' not under your name or your known image.
If creating alter ego makes you comfortable, then just go with it. As long as you're not faking all of your behavior in the daily normal life, I guess it's still okay to do it.

Yep.
So the next question will be:

"Do I have it?"

Yes. Both in real life and social media life.
And maybe you have it too.

"What's the purpose of you writing this?"

Well, nothing. Like I said before, it's just another babble which is unimportant, as usual.

So, smell you later!

p.s. Guess what alter ego case I'm going with, lol.

1 comment(s):

Anonymous said...

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