Online trust

It just goes to show, you've gotta be careful, hun. There are a lot of nice people out there, but there are also a lot of sickos, too.

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Great topic. I really don't know how much you need to go through to trust someone online. I suppose the photos are a fairly god start but a 45 yr old could post apic of her 16 yr old daughter and so on. So you can never be completely sure unless you have talked to this person through say web cam or in person. Like me and a friend of mine talekd to a guy over web cam who was from across the other side of the world. She trusted him enough to send him her home address and now we have a pretty funky DVD that him and his friends made for us. Takes a long time before I will trust someone but there are a few peopel around here who, I'm pretty sure, are who they say they are

cheers

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Cancel the apocalypse
Cartons of the milky way with pictures of a missing planet
Last seen in pursuit of an American dream

To phuck wit the minds of gullible people like yurself Sorry I'm in a mean mood today....

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"Luke, estoy tu pap'a!"
"No! NOOO! Es no verdad!!!!"

Yes, but some of us aren't suckers and see right through those who are pretending to be someone else. Hmmm.

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Negative infinity man.

Speak for yourself, I'm the most optimistic person I know. Cheer up though man, it's not all that bad

With their screen name, buddy icon and mannerisma they were extremely realistic. You could not see through this person they really knew what it was like to be that age in this time.

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"Hey You! Don't help them to bury the light. Don't give in, without a fight."

What harm is being done, really, by someone pretending to be someone else, unless you are foolish enough to give them personal information about yourself?

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Yes... after all I'm a homophobic, race baiting fascist!

No really, I am!

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I don't really care about trust on the internet, I find it as safe as real life, even in the flesh people can lie about thier identity, and often times do.

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and what's it mean when suddently you're spent? ambition came and reared its head, and went, away from you.


This is what I'm listening to right now!

yes good point. I think the main thing is to restrict personal info in order to stay "safe"

cheers

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Agreed. That has always been my policy. I don't really start investigating until there's disruption of the community going on. Brings back memories...

I just can't help but find it peculiar, when someone's posts seem exaggerated, deliberate, and of extreme unintelligence. Then their profile is mysteriously proper. Doesn't make sense you know?! Whatever.

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Negative infinity man.

Speak for yourself, I'm the most optimistic person I know. Cheer up though man, it's not all that bad

just be careful when sharing personal information is key to safety..

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Glance into the blackness hidden beneath your surface
And enjoy the suffering, sanity drained in disrespect
With such bedevilled faith in good, subsequently trusting evil
Next step for mankind will be the last seasons in sin

Hahaha, I tihnk I remeber what you speak of, could it be the one that makes me fall off my chair? Thank gos he's gone, for now....
You know people like that make me appreciate you, Shaners, BoaB and the Piper more than usual

cheers

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Cartons of the milky way with pictures of a missing planet
Last seen in pursuit of an American dream

It's a funny old world.

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But yeah, I've had a similar experience in the last couple of years, whereby I got chatting to this bird (this is when I was single) and we struck up, y'know, one of 'those' relationships. She mailed me photos of herself and seemed pretty cool. There was even talk of her coming over for some sort of visit to the UK. I did find it a little weird that whenever I phoned up, her gay mate (a bloke) would always be round and seriously seemed to have a stick up his arse with regards to me being on the other end of the line, but y'know, whatever. Then I just happened to be cruising some porn site for research purposes (look, we all do it, OK?) and found the photos she'd sent me. Then she started mentioning about how her baby was really ill and needed treatment and how expensive it was in the US and how much did I have in my account? Then it turned out she was married to the uptight fruit and ACTUALLY LIVED IN A TRAILER. She also managed to get herself arrested about 3 times in the few months that we talked.

The worst part was, when she finally sent me real pictures of herself, she was bog ugly too.

It happens, I guess.

Cheers!

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When Bucks Fizz’s tour bus crashed they all survived. When Metallica's bus crashed Cliff Burton died. Why?