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OT "He is" or "I am"



how do we present ourselves on the web? I have a question of style: I'm
currently busy setting up my new website, finally ... (no, it is not online
yet).

I'm going for a conventional site with a menu on the left and content on 
the
right, nothing fancy, nothing too confusing, nothing too artsy ... the
design can change later if I feel like it, first thing I want to have is a
website for all my various projects.

The start page says something about me, something like, "Michael plays
guitar and loves livelooping ... he also uses the computer to create 
strange
sounds ... blah blah". Stuff like that. 

Now my wife comes in and looks over my shoulder and wonders why I don't
write "I play guitar and love livelooping ... I also use the computer" etc.
etc. - I'm writing this about myself, so why don't I say "I" ?

I don't know how to put it. If I say "he is" it sounds like somebody else
has written it about me, while everybody knows that I wrote it myself.
Somehow silly but then it does sound more neutral and objective. If I wrote
"I am" the page would be full of "I've done this, I've done that" and
somehow that wouldn't feel right either.

I've checked some other websites for this and apparently it is quite normal
to say something like "Per Boysen is one of Sweden’s leading live-looping
musicians" or "A leading figure in the emerging international live looping
movement, Rick is a sound designer, electronic music composer ..." or
"Avant-cellist Zoë Keating is a one-woman string quartet " ... even though
we all know (and all site visitors know) that each of us wrote this
him/herself.

Opinions?

-Michael www.michaelpeters.de