Your on-line persona

Patricia M. Wallace: The psychology of the Internet, Cambridge University Press, pg. 37

I finally ran into my email acquaintance at a conference and learned how mistaken my initial impressions about him where. His contagious smile instantly belied the cool and arrogant image he had projected at first. Stroking his graying beard, he said, "I don't really know how to do this Internet thing, but I'm learning." We all are.