A Man Is No One's blog: "Rants"

Having been on the internet for several years in various capacities (yahoo, IRC, Lost Cherry, etc) it still amazes me how people can be so fake sometimes. I find it hard to believe that these people are so uniteresting or shy or whatever that they feel the need to build false identities and lives around themselves on the internet simply as a means of garnering attention, sympathy, or whatever. If anything, being here should make it easier for people to be themselves, as they are removed somewhat from those social pressures that cause many of us to be not as open out in the world. For myself, I would never pretend to be something I'm not in the real world, so I'll be damned if I would do the same here in an environment that should foster more of a sense of openness. Granted, there are always people out there that will try to take advantage of people that are too open, but usually those people are so easy to see coming we can all avoid them (unless you live under the proverbial rock or actually were born yesterday). I sincerely hope that those people out there that feel the need to not be themselves, and we've all seen a lot of this lately on here it seems, figure out that it is so unnecessary and ultimately self-defeating in the end. 'Nuff said...