Internet Lies

[CoasterMatt]

:eek: This (http://www.wired.com/print/politics/law/magazine/15-09/ff_internetlies) is one twisted story...

Here's a summary provided by a friend on another board

Guy1: "Oh man, I'm having a midlife crisis. I shall invent alter ego of young marine!"
Guy1: "I found hot cute girl online who is 17, I'd hit it."
*insert flirting*
Guy1 Wife: "My husband has been pretending to be some one else, I shall warn young girl!"
Girl: "Wtfs? I shall ask some one else who knows him... Oh no, guy1 has been lieing to me. I shall get back at him with guy2!"
Guy1: "Oh no, my alter ego has collapsed and guy2 is ruining my life. They shall rue the day!"
*insert childish bull*****
*Guy1 shoots Guy2*
*Detectives go to warn girl*
Girl: "No sorry guys, I'm girl's mother, I've been screwing around with both men pretending to be my daughter."

Everyone's life is ruined, the end.

[RStar]

Wow.

Why can't we all just get along? :rolleyes:

[JWBear]

I feel like I need to take a shower after reading that.

[€uroMeinke]

Read this in the magazine when it cam out and found it fascinating. That someone making up an online life would somehow not think that the person on the other end might be doing the same thing truly boggled my mind.

It does make me wonder more about the social implications of people leading multiple lives, their real life as well as a virtual life in chat rooms, worlds of warcraft, second life, etc. - ultimately they all do have some existence and impact in real life. I guess it just underscores the fact that reality (at least in how it impacts someone) tends to exist more in one's perceptions than actual facts.

[BarTopDancer]

That made me tired.

[RStar]

Read this in the magazine when it cam out and found it fascinating. That someone making up an online life would somehow not think that the person on the other end might be doing the same thing truly boggled my mind.

It does make me wonder more about the social implications of people leading multiple lives, their real life as well as a virtual life in chat rooms, worlds of warcraft, second life, etc. - ultimately they all do have some existence and impact in real life. I guess it just underscores the fact that reality (at least in how it impacts someone) tends to exist more in one's perceptions than actual facts.

For what it's worth, I'm the same in the chat rooms as I am in real life. WYSIWYG!

[Mousey Girl]

That is why I no longer go near chat rooms. After being lied to by someone, 2 of us actually caught on to her lies,
we met her IRL. The lies and coverup lies she told didn't even come near the truth of who she actually was. Her online persona was partly based on her 30 year old daughter, but mostly pure fantasy. I wonder if her daughter ever found out that her mother was plastering her pictures all over the internet and trying to pass them off as her own?

[3894]

It does make me wonder more about the social implications of people leading multiple lives, their real life as well as a virtual life in chat rooms, worlds of warcraft, second life, etc. - ultimately they all do have some existence and impact in real life. I guess it just underscores the fact that reality (at least in how it impacts someone) tends to exist more in one's perceptions than actual facts.

I agree and btw, well put, EuroMeinke. With LoT, there's a lot more social control than most boards because many of you (most of you?) meet up IRL.

[flippyshark]

I guess I may as well 'fess up. I'm not really a 42 year-old man living in Orlando Florida. I'm actually, like, a totally hot 19 year old girl from Idaho, on foreign exchange in Latvia. I love to par-taaaay! Also, I raise chinchillas, and I won a hog calling contest when I was 12. My parents are secret agents, which I, like, totally shouldn't have told you all!

[BarTopDancer]

I agree and btw, well put, EuroMeinke. With LoT, there's a lot more social control than most boards because many of you (most of you?) meet up IRL.

And we stalk those who don't want to meet us. *coughleocough*'scuse me! Must have had something caught in my throat.

[3894]

And we stalk those who don't want to meet us. *coughleocough*'scuse me! Must have had something caught in my throat.

Sensen?

Ah, the last time I hosted a Wisconsin Swanking. Beers + Brats + skijoring (http://www.flickr.com/photos/alttext/418571089/) = well, you remember this lady wasn't too pleased with us.http://imagesource.art.com/images/-/Fargo---Frances-McDormand-Photograph-C10035072.jpeg

[RStar]

I guess I may as well 'fess up. I'm not really a 42 year-old man living in Orlando Florida. I'm actually, like, a totally hot 19 year old girl from Idaho, on foreign exchange in Latvia. I love to par-taaaay! Also, I raise chinchillas, and I won a hog calling contest when I was 12. My parents are secret agents, which I, like, totally shouldn't have told you all!

:D :snap: LOL!!

[alphabassettgrrl]

I guess it just underscores the fact that reality (at least in how it impacts someone) tends to exist more in one's perceptions than actual facts.
It's fascinating to think how much of our "us" exists only in the minds of ourselves and other. We actually define ourselves quite heavily in relation to others, and we in turn base our expectations of them by what we ourselves expect we would do in that situation.

I try to keep a consistant "me" in my life, but not everybody is safe to do that. The upright citizen with a fetish, the housewife with a crush, among others, find it necessary to split off part of themselves. Jung tells us about the Shadow, and the Shadow must be fed or it will find a way to make itself known and you get these preachers who are hiring hookers and using dope and swindling money from the church. Anything people think will be unacceptable to their peers, they split off and either feed it in secret or hide it altogether.

On the other hand, sometimes it's surprising what people will accept. I test the limits quite a lot sometimes.

[mousepod]

I guess I may as well 'fess up. I'm not really a 42 year-old man living in Orlando Florida. I'm actually, like, a totally hot 19 year old girl from Idaho, on foreign exchange in Latvia. I love to par-taaaay! Also, I raise chinchillas, and I won a hog calling contest when I was 12. My parents are secret agents, which I, like, totally shouldn't have told you all!

I've met her IRL. It's true!

[Moonliner]

Unfortunately it's not like "normal" people who don't live in cyberspace are any better...

"Dad shoots through baby to kill mom (http://www.wyff4.com/news/14082920/detail.html)"

Six Held In West Virginia Torture Horror (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0911071logansix1.html)

etc...

[€uroMeinke]

I came across something today about protecting privacy and the fact that in actuality technology is making our lives more an more public. In times when you lived in a small town and everyone knew your business, you could always move to a new town and start fresh. So I wonder if this is the internet's solution for people trying to escape their public lives, a virtual one where anything is possible.

[CoasterMatt]

Why is the 'Cheers' theme song stuck in my head?