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if you refer to non-Internet activities as "real life", aren't you implying that the Internet is make believe?
originally posted by: TzarChasm
i'll be the first to raise my hand when its asked "how many people here have pretended, even for a few moments, to be someone entirely different while using the internet?"
but thats exactly what makes it so easy to lie on the internet. for a lot of people, its an escape thing, a distraction.
originally posted by: AugustusMasonicus
originally posted by: TzarChasm
i'll be the first to raise my hand when its asked "how many people here have pretended, even for a few moments, to be someone entirely different while using the internet?"
Lying on the internet would probably be even harder than doing it offline where, for the habitual liar, nothing is written down for humanity to see in perpetuity.
I find it much easier to just be myself in both cases. A jackass.
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Profusion
The reality is we are sitting, and for the most part, alone. It's not much different than any activity in which you are propped up and looking at a screen. Any "experience" you have other than reading, typing and whatever else you physically do while sitting there, is the result of your imagination.
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