I remember the summer between 8th grade and freshman year of highschool I got my first computer and my parents were trusting (or naïve) enough to let me put it in my room. I had internet, AIM and my best-girlfriends and I discovered chat rooms. I remember we would go in these rooms and would mess with people so much. I feel really bad now, but at the time we thought it was fun. We would find guys and make them think we were into them/build a relationship then do bratty things. Of course we lied about everything we said, gave fake locations, names and pictures. These relationships differed from face-to-face because in real life I could never be so fake, catty and mean as I was on there. Online I would act and say things that I could never do in real life. In real life I could never be a fake person, but you can online, which leads to creating fake relationships. Online you have the opportunity to be anyone you want to be, and the other person could have no idea who you really are.
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It is so crazy how different one can be online than in f2f communication. It is so easy to exaggerate about yourself and be anyone you want to be online. That is also why it is very dangerous to be online because there are a lot of predators who are very good at lying and fooling people. But as long as people are careful being online and chatting can be very fun. I can totally remember being in the seventh grade and playing around with people like you had written in your posting:)
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