rp, which we all know is unsightly

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Re: things you won't admit logged in

[(Anonymous)]

I'm the first da from above so I'm maybe coming from a slightly different perspective. Or maybe I'm not and I just misinterpret online interactions sometimes, but it does seem fake when people gush about being glad to have met you and to talk to you only to ghost you a few weeks later. Experiencing that a few times has led me to the conclusion that people in dwrp just don't want to make friends and now I keep my distance. Not 'robot' level, I still chat to people regularly on plurk and we get along fine, I respond to people's memes and stuff. But for the last few years that's as far as I let things go. It makes things a lot easier to stick to casual chatting about rp and the games we share on plurk and not engage in one on one conversations unless it's planning out a thread.

da

[(Anonymous)]

I've definitely had experiences with this whole gush-then-ghost thing myself and I can agree that it feels fake. I've felt that way myself a few times. But I'm starting to think it's not "fake" so much as it's the same effect as people forming parasocial relationships with celebs they follow on twitter, just on a smaller scale. they thread with you a couple of times, have a lot of fun, and then convince themselves they have some kind of deep personal connection with you when in reality they don't know you, don't know anything about you, and they're going to lose interest and move on in a month or two.

It's just an unhealthy way of forming relationships in general and I think that's why some rpers are slow or even resistant to forming deeper friendships with their rp partners - it's not that anyone's a "robot," it's just we've recognized how easy it is to kick up these kind of parasocial bonds in a hobby like this and are trying to avoid that, for everyone's sake.