Open this thread if you wonder why people purge their accounts

Psychologically it's been proven that around old friendships in present times the individual will return to how they were at the time because that's their role. In a very similar sense, by being on a website under a certain username people feel obligated to act the way they have, even though they're no longer the person that makes up the role that people expect them to carry out. Everyone who develops their character knows this instinctively. It's only the people that have a hard time developing and are stuck in their traits who can't understand why people wish to purge their accounts from Sep7agon.net

That's why I'm actually Verbatim

That's why I'm actually Verbatim

If that were true than wouldn't the same rules apply to gamertags? I haven't met very many people who made alternate gamertags after significant change in their personality or dealings with past people. That makes account purges on websites a unique facet.

Out of all the purged accounts I've ever met they all shared similar psychological processes. Shame, guilt, embarrassment, or significant emotional disruption due to being on the website. They forced themselves off the website for those reasons because it was a dual aspect of both being an addictive coping mechanism while being disruptive to their mental well being. There's always outliers to any statistic, but the common trend that I've seen in people who demonstrated higher emotional stability or awareness was to simply leave the website when they felt like it. They could vanish for years and come back a different person entirely without a need to purge anything.

If that were true than wouldn't the same rules apply to gamertags? I haven't met very many people who made alternate gamertags after significant change in their personality or dealings with past people. That makes account purges on websites a unique facet.

Out of all the purged accounts I've ever met they all shared similar psychological processes. Shame, guilt, embarrassment, or significant emotional disruption due to being on the website. They forced themselves off the website for those reasons because it was a dual aspect of both being an addictive coping mechanism while being disruptive to their mental well being. There's always outliers to any statistic, but the common trend that I've seen in people who demonstrated higher emotional stability or awareness was to simply leave the website when they felt like it. They could vanish for years and come back a different person entirely without a need to purge anything.

It does apply to gamertags. Like I said, it's about the social contex and relationships. If you're friends with bad people, and you get out, everytime you see them you may become more lenient towards their bad deeds, but when you go away you may be more righteous. You end up with shame, guilt, embarrassment, or significant emotional disruption due to being with them, because that's not you, it's not who you are.

People who left the website but didn't purge their accounts, all I can think of is psy and ender or maybe even ember, but they all got accounts with the exact same usernames and shit on other sites like bungle or whatever it was called. You don't exactly quit basketball if you switch teams

I mean everyone I've met in comp is actually grandmaster and just playing on their alt so suck on that son