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Originally Posted by IslandScout
Hey, Bulldog. Not talking about this thread in particular but in a general way—
I have to respectfully disagree.
I think lying and deceitfulness violate a tacit agreement on online forums that people will represent themselves authentically.
If I invest time and thought and emotion into building online friendships and comradery with people on a social website, I will feel tricked and used if their side of it was fictional, while mine was not.
It's like I'm naked, and they have all their clothes on—but were pretending to be naked. If that makes sense. Probably not.
Let me try again.
I don't want to be used as an audience for someone's need to be something other that who they really are.
It disgusts me. I would tell them, Go jerk off to some other reader.
And it's okay that you and I have such different views on it, I just wanted to say mine.
Thanks,
Scout
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If I feel someone is liar I wont engage with them. I don't form any sort of emotional investment with them.
I have known of many people who have misrepresented themselves on these forums, some in minor ways and some in major ways, some for many years. There is never any excuse for it, but I am under no illusion that the majority of people represent themselves here authentically. Some do. Some people I do know personally and although the online world doesn't completely do them justice, they are real and authentic people.
Kobi, interesting theory. Personally I don't think high school boys would pose this way or know enough about butch femme. I can't imagine why someone would say they were happily engaged to their high school sweetheart if they wanted to pull the rug over on the whole forum. I would think we would see Super Stud Single Butch. Shrug. Who knows.