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RumpusParable -> RE: honesty online (1/24/2007 9:14:29 PM)
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My opinion is that really you run a risk with meeting anyone, online or in real-life. You have to learn people and find out their qualities... some you meet in person turn out to be total frauds, complete false-faces.
Online there is only a limited amount of personal investment, so if I find out someone was playing false I've not lost much. Just a little bit of time that was free for fiddling around. If I had needed to be doing something serious, I would have been. No large harm done!
My own behavior is to be honest about me and my life in the things I share. It harms me none to do so and I may make a friend or three through it. As with real-time interactions, I only share what I am comfortable with being out and known and do not fret with anything I say being spread about.
I've had little trouble with people lying to me online. I've had the occasional person that turned out to be dishonest or who I suspected of being, but never anything important. It's not as though I had made any special connection with them; at the most, I've felt for a couple people that I'd like to meet them and begin getting to know them real-time. Of those few, I've met less than a handful and they were quite real and as they'd led me to believe. Most folks have been pretty straight in my person correspondences.
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