ic and ooc.

this is something that really changed over the years. roleplays used to be about you actually portraying or pretending to be the character or face you're using. there used to be a very distinct line between what was in character and what was out of character, people actually used brackets to indicate that they were speaking as thesmelves an not their character. now a good amount of the time people either don't do that at all or may only do it sometimes.  even though so many places say in the rules not to mix the two, almost everyone does in nonaus while i rarely see it happen in aus which is very ironic.  even the admins do it  and then they pick and choose when they want the rule to apply.  why did there suddenly become a huge blurred line between in character and out of character? now you can hardly ever tell if something is supposed to be about the actual character or the roleplayer themselves and i personally believe this is something that ends up causing things like issues and drama as you don't know whether it's  the character or actual roleplayer acting that way.  a lot of roleplays have out of character rooms which do get used at times but most people just prefer to be in rooms where they should be in character and start talking about themselves personally. i feel like that has a lot to do with why there tends to be so little legitimate plotting and roleplaying in places nowadays, as people just use roleplays as chat rooms or like they're on some social media site instead of the entire point of this site. there's nothing wrong with chatting and connecting with people out of character, but why do it in a place where you're supposed to be in character instead of using brackets to indicate it or using the dedicated room for it only?  it's especially disheartnening and awkward for someone like me who actually tries to stay in character and portray my character while everyone else is talking about things tthat happened out of character and therefore ignore people who actually are being in character. it seems like a lot of people aren't actual on this site to roleplay but to just chat 24/7 and honestly, what is the point of even being on here if that's the case?