Why I like that people can choose not to be “real” online…

It helps me figure out who to trust.  

There are some people who are very different online vs off….they’re gaurded…afraid of offending….wanting to be “liked” and “followed”. It’s pretty easy to spot them….they follow a LOT of people and their thoughts seem to have extremely well rounded edges.

But to me, they’ve simply got no core.  Uninteresting, filtered corks in a tepid stream.  Afraid of their own thoughts becoming public. Not someone I can count on…they’ll be different next year….therefore I don’t even bother to get to know them.

On the other hand, you have people like we have here.  Opinionated, intelligent and sometimes polarizing (which is a backhanded way of saying people are DRAWN to them).

These are people who I know where they stand.  They demand respect through the respect that they show for their own core.

Yes, you can hide anything and everything….but that’s not what is powerful.  What’s powerful is deciding not to.

The above was in response to Fred Wilson’s post on default-public identities: 

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