Lying

People on the internet lie.  There’s no doubt about it - they just do.

I’ve been on the Internet for awhile.  I know that seems so arbitrary since everyone’s been on awhile, but really it’s quite true, in a capacity that it isn’t for a lot of people. I haven’t just visited the Internet like a daily vacation home in Key West, or viewed it like a television show - on the contrary it’s been my home for awhile. So, when I say it, it comes from experience - people on the internet lie.

I guess it’s really no surprise that they do considering the internet is really equal opportunity in the truest sense of the word - people are forced to take you on your word before anything else.  You can name (and lie about) any number of factors - education, age, ethnicity, weight, sexuality - and get away with it.  The internet is the biggest mask in the world.

Of course the other side of it is, is that you can get away with virtually anything on the internet - people fake what they look like, their age, their gender, their sexuality, they make up entire families, and even worse than that, fake relationships - and yet, when the lie stops, they can just delete their blog, or AIM name, or their Skype name, or anything else and just move on to the next.  I have to say, that’s a huge stark difference from real life.  You can always lie in real life, but it’s much harder to run away from the repercussions.