Fact or fiction?

I know, for myself, I only post factual discussions. I may leave out names or other personal details, as you mentioned, but I only discuss true events and legitimate questions. I think if I tried to just make something up I would stumble all over myself trying to keep it straight. That would be like telling a lie, wouldn't it? I don't do that. Not saying anyone else does either. But there may be some MyLot members that embellish, shall we say, to get a good discussion going. Or not. I can only speak for myself.

hi shattered! i will only reply and post things based on my experience.i do not know how to tell lies or make up things-i am not that smart to twist the truth so i will only write the actual events here.it will be different if we are writing a novels or short stories.then i will come up with unoriginal and things that truthly comes from my imaginations.since most of the questions are based on individual experience so we expect the other friends to be honest and share stories and views with others.unless the questions start with 'if', then i think the fiction will join that part along with the facts.

I don't know about others but I want to be very open with myself.I find imagining things and situations more difficult than narrating the real life incidents that have happened in my life.It is always a surprise to see that how much of interesting things have happened in our life that are worth sharing with others.As they say some facts surely are stranger than fictions.

I would say about 99% of all the discussions I write are based on experiences I've had (or someone I know in my life has had), questions I've had, and just things that relate to my life. All of the discussions I start MAY not have necessarily happened TO ME (but then I would mention that "a friend of mine..." or "my sister..." etc.) I take a lot of 'inspiration' from my own life to come up with my discussions. Of course, maybe that just means I'm not creative enough to start 'fictional' discussions. I don't know, I wouldn't really want to and I can't even think what I would write about if i wanted to write 'fictional' discussions. Hmm.

If I mention something that perhaps happened in the news I like to provide links sometimes. I totally post factual as this way I have plenty of room to respond back to each comment. See participation is the key to earning here on myLot so if I make something up I do not think with the number of responses I get that I could keep it up. I would hope that when someone is saying they need help that they are actually needing the help. At any rate someone else perhaps reading my response to a made up discussion may gain from my opinions and experiences.

I post both. Fictional and Real. Sometimes my real turns into fictional and I do not know how that happens. But real is always better. Because there is no lie and you do not have to remember it. But if it was fiction then you won't remember it. But sometimes fiction is better. That is when you don't have nothing to talk about and you have an active imagination, then you write fiction and, sometimes fiction is more interesting to read than just boring real life.

There are times when I wrote pure fiction. But that's what they were supposed to be, pure fiction. I wrote a short story and asked for comments... Mostly I don't post something which has to be 'based on'... I write more about ideas and other abstract things. But if there's related to an event, that event is more of an actual one than not.

My discussions are true happenings and factual. I don't have a creative thinking and what I write are based on real life events.

In my case it is often related to what is currently happening in my life, or maybe to what I've seen on the news. I don't make up anything and I didn't see the reason for that as well. Not at the moment. Sometimes there are ideas but not fictional.

Most discussions i have gone across with and i have started are mostly fact. I think it's because it is a lot easier to post and is less likely to have similar posts. We can even share a lot when we base it on actual events and experiences.

I use life experiences in my posts. I would feel strange putting fictional things in my post. That is just how I am. I never make up things. If I post on something I heard, I try to include a link.

When I start a discussion, I base it on my experiences. I want to hear the opinion of other people because I know that opinions of people with different personalities can help me make a better decision. =). Sometimes, the discussions that I start are the things that I've been contemplating on for a long time. =)

Mylot is my secret diary, so everything I say here is true, In the case of my facebook and youtube account though, I play safe because people are seeing my face there. Mylot is my place to tell my secrets without putting scandal in my life since people who knows me didnt know I was here.

Discussions should be based on real events that happened in your life and if they're not you should at least tell us they're actually not... I don't think it's very nice to make something up just for the sake of getting that number near your name up a few points and then let the other myLotters kill their brains trying to help you knowing they'll influence your future decisions when it's all actually just fiction ...

I like to post about my own life and issues that are in my life or in the lives of others around me. I also like to discuss news and things that are interesting. But, I have noticed that some people might be posting things that are not realistic. Or that negate things that they have discussed or mentioned before. But, it isn't all that bad. And, there are more that are posting real things, since their personalities have shown over time.

hi shattered I do not ever make up stuff as I have had a full life and plenty of instances in my real life that might interest others, so why make up crap?If others do fine I do not care, as if the discussion is interesting I will respond. Now how do you knoe that what you think is made up might well be real? do you actually ask the poster if it is real or fictional? to me thats sort of unkind as you are in essence calling some of us liars. I know I resent that very much.I do not make up anything and if you chose to believe otherwise thats up to you.i ask again how do you know any of it is made up and why on earth do you even care?i know I do not as long as I am interested in a discussion and can understand it and add to it I could care less.

I think for the large part they are from our real life experiences. I can't think of any that are just made up. I know my questions are from real things I am asking. I don't think they are made up in general, but some might be. I don't answer on nonsensical ones though!

If we post,respond or comment based on our experiences, we could add more details to it. We could make quality posts and share our knowledge to other people. If we just make up things, it will be most likely that we are dishonest to ourselves. Oh come on! This is just myLot! There will be no valid reason for you to intend on doing such things.