Quote Originally Posted by Araciel View Post
dunno...this subject of online/offline is difficult...in my experience, people are less inclined to be truthful online...for what reason i don't know....but i could put a picture of anyone in my profile and say it was me...how would you know it wasn't?
I'm not less truthful online.

But I consider that to be a character flaw. Anybody online should be online to hide away from their true selves, not to broadcast their true selves among an entire world of strange readers who are hiding their true personas.

The world of online is exciting because we interact with normal people and normal lives and normal stories, and all of them exaggerated and altered into an exciting kind of story filled with beautiful women and heroic men and outstanding stories of heroic intentions, and it's all eerily underlined by fear, failure, angst, self consciousness, self pity, neediness, hatred, hackeing, thievery of wealth and identity, and even murder.

The internet is a beautiful woven blend of the real story and the false story. Both are real. Both are false. It's like driving through a wealthy neighborhood and seing a beautifully manicured mansion, admiring it without knowing that inside a husband is cursing out an adultress while their son shoots heroin upstairs.

(SPOILER)I would write an essay on this, but I'm not getting paid or graded for it, so the line is drawn here. Sorry I'm not a better artist. Or line drawer