Who are we really??

You bring up an interesting point as I had a man tell me so many lies that eventually I just asked him the same questions to see what he would invent. He would forget what he told me. LOL He tried the romance scam on me without realizing I was catching him on lies everyday!

I'm certain that there are liars amongst the net world just as in the real one. I think the internet has made our world so much smaller, yet so much bigger for us individually! I know my children and I would have never had a chance to actually see videos of so many places we've seen. We've met and talked to people from all over the world. I've had deep and meaningful discussions about religion, often making me realize how much ALIKE we are as opposed to DIFFERENT. I never see color. This is a milestone for me as I was raised in a very racial house, although since most have come around to accept.. but still, as much as I don't WANT to see color.. I was raised to notice it. I never see that on here. I talk to you, often not even knowing if you're a male or female let alone white, tan, red, green or yellow. (If you're green and male I have to marry you cuz I love shrek.. LOL) But what we've been able to accomplish via this little piece of machinery is truly amazing. I think we have so much more to experience too. Great thought instilling question.

Much of what you read, is what people want to be, not who they really are. You run a real risk both using your real name, (as I do) and posting genuine opinions (as I do.) People don't even want to talk about anything real here. I, for one, am almost completely frustrated with the average mylotian mentality, until I remind myself that this is, scarily enough, probably a good sample of the average mentality world wide. Scared, and finger-pointing, that's who most of us are. Life shouldn't be about lies and charades, but unfortunately, it so often is.

I generally like to give people the benefit of the doubt and on sites like MyLot where you are just asking questions and others are responding , then I tend to believe more that others are saying to be the truth then if it were on some chat line where people were trying to hook up . I believe that most of the time people are honest but it is so easy to be someone else online that you can never be 100% sure that someone is telling you the truth so it would be a waste of time to completely believe what one was telling you but if you got to know the person and after a period of time I would think it would be pretty much the same as meeting someone any other place and getting to know who they were . I believe that most of the time no matter where one meets the only thing you can do is go on your own instincts and this involves the computer also , as long as one realizes that it is easier to be someone else online and a little bit more suspicious until you get to know them just a little better .

Hmmm...I wonder....do you always tell the truth on your profile? I'm just kidding.....no harm intended here. When I first meet people online I'm very careful about what I tell them about myself.Like you said....you never know who this other person really is and giving away to much info can be a bad thing. I have belonged to some dating sites and I know for a fact that people don't always tell the truth and that would be one place where I think it's importend that you do....if you are really looking for a realtionship that is. I'll confess....I have made up a fake profile before just to see what would happen and you would not believe how many people fall for such a thing. You are right....most of the time it doesn't matter....but I would never take it for granted that someone is really telling the truth.It's to simple to hide behind a fake personality on the internet and you can't always believe everything you read.

yes, ctry the internet is truly amazing. scary and exciting all roll into one. you are right about 'pretending', and sometimes i do forget that. it is easy to believe and trust people you can't see. plus, i don't feel any real threat from them, so i really don't think about it. sometimes my wife will be reading over my shoulder and will ask who i am writing to. are you sure, she'll say. kind of makes me rethink my comments. but i couldn't ever try to be someone else. not even on the internet. i am me. i wouldn't know how to be anybody else. lol. and i'd be afraid if i did. i might like him better. then what? great topic. keeps me on my toes.

My friend and I were talking about this exact thing because she sets up dates through the internet. I mentioned to her before I would meet with a guy to go on a date I would check him out further not just believe what he says. She doesn't think there is any need for this. I told her that she doesn't know truly if what they are saying is true or not. But she still goes on her merry way of getting dates this way. I would never do that. I value my life very much. I never take for granted even on here that what I am told by a person or when I go and read a profile that just because they put something there doesn't make it truth.

The only people whose word I take as gospel on the internet is people that I know in real-life. With everyone else, no matter how much I talk to them online, I am always careful with what we talk about or what information I divulge. Unfortunately, technology has aided many people in a negative light. It is a lot easier to impersonate other people, it is easy to steal someone else's pictures and pretend to be a 24 year old female when in reality you are a 45 year old man. This is why I never trust those online matchmaking sites. They are good for some people, I'd never trust it enough for them to be good for me. x

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