Can we trust what we read here? Do you get mad when discussions are not true?

For the most part I think many of us DO tell the truth or tell it like it is as you said..but when I read threads that seem serious etc if I dont know the person (meaning if we've never discussed anything in here before or I've never come across one of their threads) then I would give them benefit of the doubt and answer accordingly...but if you went to this persons profile and they seem to be all over the board with different ages etc etc then I would seriously take it with a grain of salt ya know...

I really rarely bother to investigate, though like you I have a couple of times looked at someone's profile and realized they were lying about whatever it was they were posting about, or they were lying on their profile, or both. It annoys me sometimes when the thing they are claiming happened to them has really happened to me or someone I care about. In fact, there was one time that I became so upset over such a discussion that I went away from my computer and punched my punching bag for about an hour before coming back. I don't lie. Online and offline, I am the same person. If I have said something on mylot that wasn't 100% true, or anywhere else that wasn't 100% true, it's because I am an imperfect human being with an imperfect memory (and post-traumatic stress disorder and disassociative amnesia, in my case). To make up stories to or take things off the internet and post them on a forum as if they were MY story would be seriously against my personal honor code.

I know what you are talking about. I have been with Mylot a few months now and have come across people like that. I don't know why they think they will not be found out. There was one person who used to make up posts stating he was male, sometimes female, sometimes married, sometimes with children, sometimes he lived in Toronto, sometimes in Washington DC, sometimes in Malaysia sometimes elsewhere. Eventually he dissapeared. Maybe it is him again with different aliases. It annoys me if I have put effort into a response and then find out I have been duped. I usually do not share personal details on Mylot but when I ask a question it is on some topic that interests me or something I have read. You will find a lot of people on Mylot are genuine and a lot are not. Before I answer a question I check the person's profile and their other posts. If the person appears to be genuine I respond if I can contribute something. I also have a list of friends whose questions and answers are truthful.

I tell the truth about me and let that be. If it's not liked or not interesting, that is life. I think those that post stuff like you mentioned, they are just looking for a response so they can have that darn penny. Why these idiots just don't get a job is beyond me.

I know, I have run into the same thing. You read a problem and it appears to be one person talking, then read their profile and it is not even close. I wish people would be honest or stop thinking we are stupid. I guess if people are trying to protect themselves I can understand, but leave info blank rather then mislead us and don't lie.

well the truth is also in the eyes of a beholder. i tend to write truth, but everything on this forum cant be truth. the money can make you write different untrue things, so you will have more of it to make more money i guess... but this site does not pay that much that i would do things like this lol. persons who do this have to really be bored in their lives :D

Right cntrymuzik, with the hundred of thousand posts here, you can never can tell which is true or not true. It is only in your discretion if you want to believe or not. There are people who write really pityful things here some could be true, others are done only to attract responses. As for me, i do not write much about personal stuff in here. Although i believe there are really good people here who would give great advice to problems but i do not personally feel i need to tell the world of for example how my husband/bf/gf/wife cheated on me, how i found another person in our bed, or how i was beaten. etc. Only God knows if these people are exaggerating or just creating stories to get more response. I do not respond to these kind of discussion too. I prefer to participate in light discussions where most people can related.

You must be very new to discussion forums or you wouldn't be so upset by finding you spilled your guts to a liar. The internet is the perfect home for people like those. Anybody who talks about their personal life is a potential victim here. It isn't a bad idea to check out the profile *before* you talk so freely. That way you're less likely to be disappointed and feel taken advantage of.

i share my personal stuff. all my discussions are true and pure :) that guy is a jerk who is running multiple accounts. some of his tags even say i cheat, i have multiple accounts, report me. which makes me wonder what his motives are. the bad thing is he posts so many discussions and he's pushing the good discussions farther back the pages where not as many people see them. i went back 100 pages last night on discussions with no response and almost every page was over half his discussions.

I always assume people are speaking from personal experience and are telling the truth. I do, so I expect everyone else does. I think there are a few people on here that don't put their real age, picture or place of where they are netting from on their profile. Maybe because they are shy to expose themselves too much incase other people stumbledalong their comments or just here to make money so will post whatever they can to get the $$. I don't know why they feel the need to do so, but they do. I would hope the friends I have on my list are just as true to me as I am to them.

I wouldn't say I would get mad if a discussion isn't true, though I might be a little disappointed or sad that the story were made up. I tend to say how it is. What is the point in making stuff up? Except to maybe cheat our way through here and I would rather not do that. My discussions and replies are not made up. Even my profile is honest. I am how old I say I am, I do live in the United States, I am a female, and the picture in my avatar is of me. I may not tell my life story on here, but I do keep it real. I wish everyone else would do the same. Oh well, there are liars and cheaters all over the place, not just in real life (or as some people say, offline). So it's no surprise that there are cheaters here on mylot as well.

Ah you have run into sock boy, also known as... ftam9999 vchu1976 feilee3 feilee4 littlejim2006 rma8080 ktse5799 dchan99999 We are trying to get him banned.

I post discussions on my experiences, in fact I have grown to love Mylot from the amount of suport that I have recieved through my discussions. Mylot is a great place and I am glad to be here. I guess those who tell lies do it for the money but I am not hung up on the money at all! I could care less, if Mylot wasn;t paying us at all I would still be here. I think what bothers me the most is a feeling of being taken advantage of! There are so many discussions that at times find a way to touch out our hearts and we respond with so much compassion and symathy only to find out that it is a lie, joke or what ever they want to say to justify what they are doing. I think that it is really sad!

So far I haven't encountered such thing, maybe because i've been only here for a week. In a site like myLot, people like that are unavoidable, especially when you join myLot you earn money. The more postings you do, the more earnings, i reckon that's why some people just make up stories for the sake of increasing their earnings. I personally join myLot because a friend invited me to.I'm enjoying it here, people make me feel comfortable, i like it when somebody replies to my discussion, it makes me smile. In some of my discussions, i do share personal stuff about my life, but not all, i don't pretend that it's about my friend when it is really about me, i don't see any point why i should pretend. The only thing i avoid in my discussions is mentioning any names. Yeah, i do take other members' discussions seriously, i try to feel the story before i response. In that way i am sharing my real thoughts. It's sad if some are just making up stories, but i'm not mad about it. It's what they want. Maybe you just have to be more careful. What's important is you're being true to yourself and to others and you don't feel any guilt at all because you lied. Happy posting :)

Well, what can I say? Some people here are just after the money. As far as I'm concerned, I try to be truthful with whatever I write or share here. Regardless if I don't personally know each and every member in mylot, or if they too are being honest with who they say they are. I want others to take me seriously whenever I ask something or need to know other views or thoughts on certain matters, so I say things as they are every time. It doesn't really piss me off if others pretend or take ownership of stories out of somebody else's life or even a movie, for that matter. We all know that the only ones that they fool are themselves.:)

I think this is wrong what this person has done. I dont understand why people want to make up stories like this. I like to think i can trust what i am reading. I think most of us tell the truth. I enjoy reading and answering the discussions from people with real life experiences, and if they have any problems they want help with, you hope they are real. Best wishes to you

you cant trust everything that read, even on real life, you cant trust everything the person you are talking are true.unless you really know them. i do not write much of my personal stuff here, unless i really want to share it. its just frustrating when you are so touch with a certain topic and believe that its true then suddenly you realised that its not.

yeah, sometimes i wonder about some of the discussions here. there are some who definitely have a consistent story and bother to be open enough to share their lives with us. but there are others who post sensational stories just to get responses. well,let's see how long they can do this for. i suppose quite long. but that's why i prefer to respond to conversations started by my friends instead of looking at the hot topics list or the top discussions list. i will discuss what i feel comfortable with the world wide web knowing i guess. and it's more about opinions that one's everyday life i guess. cheerio!

Like you, at first I also thought that the discussions posted here are from legitimate desire to find answers to people problems. I thought all the discusions posted are deem held true by the author, but I was wrong. So now, I choose to discussions where I respond to. I do not want to be dupe also, because I do not post false discussions just to have something to talk about in myLot. Keep safety...

Yes some people looking for positive answers.Some one come to this place for collecting information.Someone visit this for making revenues...