Why you gotta be like that huh?

I recently went to see the facebook movie with my brother and a friend of ours. A couple of days later I was talking with my brother about the movie and it went something like this:

Me: Wasn't that part where the main character checks the math so funny?

Bro (staring at me with that you're so hopeless and frustrating exasperated face): Joy, you laughed through the entire movie.

Me (attempting to mollify with genuine innocence while trying to figure out why he is looking at me like that): It was a comedy!!

Bro: No. It wasn't.

I can't tell you how many movies I have gone to and laughed through just to later find out the parts I laughed over weren't even supposed to be funny. Like the time I heard, "Joy, they blew up earth. That is never supposed to be funny." But it was funny because the earth made a tiny little pop sound when it was destroyed and the idea of that still cracks me up. Also, it wasn't forever and I knew that because I read the book. AND, whatever, it was super funny. Sorry for living. So yeah, go see the facebook movie. It's a gas.

Due to my unending curiosity (and some close friends highly recommending it a while back), I gave internet dating a try. You never know right? Well, I know and I am so done with internet dating. It wasn't all bad, not even slightly. But the parts that were bad showed me I am more of face to face type person. The only thing I am left wondering is if I come across on here like I do everywhere else there is a glowing screen with my writing behind it. I can only assume so and it makes me a little concerned because I clearly do a completely shit ass job representing myself through wordage. I am so much better in person and I know this because the people who have gotten to know me in person stick with me, while the people I meet online sometimes end up sending me unpleasant and super insulting hate mail that reads like it's made for my heavy hitting, radical and forceful evil twin. Why am I met with such a different reaction in real life? Is it my facial expressions? My body language? Why do I come across like a totally different person when I fill out the little summary page and then answer a bunch of questions honestly and to the best of my ability? The first received venomous letter was so interesting because it was definitely to me but the accusations were for someone else. How weird is that? My beliefs, likes and interests came across but in a way I never imagined they would be perceived. I am so clearly sending out the wrong message here. The second one also came across like they believed me to be someone else. I'm not nearly as judgmental or domineering as it made me sound. Yeah, I can get worked up over shit but I usually end up laughing it all off anyway. I'm just not at all as serious as some of these messages implied. Fuck. I should have saved them and showed you what I mean. Oh, that would have been so helpful, wouldn't it have? No biggie, from now on I'm keeping it up front, in your face personal, real life shit because whoa am I giving people the wrong impression. Maybe my humor needs the actual smile? Am I like the only person ever to get seething hatred from a dating site? It's not often I get that level of animosity so I know I am doing something seriously wrong as when I am face to face with people, they seem to really enjoy my company. Even when they don't, it's never a hate thing, it's more a wtf I can't relate to you but I'll still hang out because you are fun type deal. Weird. I will say that anyone I have ever met from the net (guys and girls alike) was not meant as a dating thing so much as buying or selling something, showing them how to do something, them showing me how to do something or just hanging out because we were both bored. The meeting had no tense expectations and was set up right away which helped to cut all the wordy bullshit out of the picture, put us in motion and allowed me to move freely throughout the cabin. So yeah, online dating can be fun and really cool people can be met, but for a far more productive result I think I am going to continue meeting people the old fashioned way. That way I won't run the risk of representing myself poorly. Well, that's a stretch. At least when I do it face to face, I'll be able to immediately try and asses the damage, get it all wrong and ruin my chances way faster than if it were through an email while keeping their friendship. Cause that's more my style.