Originally posted by badmoon
Playing up a personna can be fun but ultimately you'll simply alienate everyone. Usually this invented personality will be found out as being vulnerable and indefensable.
You'll end up either being yourself or will have to reinvent yourself once again.
I disagree. Most people on this site have a personna that I assume don't reflect their real selves. People learn to accept them, and their personna as a joke. Plus, most of these personnas are only temporary. To give you an idea, I've played a schizophrenic, someone with an irrational fear of monkeys, a walrus, other members of this site, and I'm sure many others. They don't last long.