To keep my promises

[volterator]

I do view, in many ways, my online life to be more private than my face to face one. It's less sincere for one, and I actually find life more complicated if I am not sincere in person. I am mortified by the idea of people I know from work or my family being aware of blogs and things. I am more unpleasant online for a start, usually recklessly, and probably without just cause. If I'm unpleasant to you in person it's because you genuinely get on my nerves or have profoundly pissed me off. But I say that, doesn't necessarily hold water. My first response to others in the street is impatience.

While I'm not the most inherently sociable of creatures, I did spend ten minutes talking to a lovely young woman who let me share her umbrella yesterday, which is indicative that I don't eschew human company, friendliness or common courtesy, and the reason I don't have any friends on Facebook is because I don't want to.