(August 15, 2015 at 12:40 am)Pyrrho Wrote:(August 14, 2015 at 8:11 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: This is not the first time you've made the suggestion that I may not be who I say I am. Anyone here who is friends with me on facebook can confirm that I am who I say I am.
Yes, I have stated this before. And I also previously stated that one can make a fake Facebook profile, too, with pictures and a fake storyline to one's life. It really is no more difficult than making a real one. So links to Facebook really do not prove anything.
My point is not about you in particular (though you have been used as the example more than once), but about online posting. Anyone can pretend to be anyone, real or imagined.
The only thing stopping me from making a fake Facebook page is the lack of desire to do so. Of course, I could have a fake one and deny it here, and no one would know the difference. Which further illustrates my point, that one can pretend pretty much anything online.
That conjoined with the fact that many people enjoy lying should give rise to a degree of skepticism about all such claims made online. Someone may, of course, tell the truth, but one very often has no real way of distinguishing truth from falsehood in such cases, as long as the lies are kept within reasonable bounds.
As for how often people lie versus how often they tell the truth online, it is impossible to know, as one generally does not know which cases are the truth and which are lies, so one cannot make a proper tally of them to make the determination. And even if one did know that most of the time people told the truth, that would not help one in a specific instance, as the specific instance may or may not conform to the norm.
I think it's quite easy to spot a fake facebook. I know you don't have facebook so you'll probably have no idea what I'm talking about lol, but when a person has hundreds of photos of themselves with a ton of family and friends tagged on there, and then you see a bunch of those family/friend's comments on the person's status updates, pictures, etc, you can be pretty dang sure it's real. I do agree you have to use good judgement though, because there are a lot of crazies out there. Just watch Catfish lol.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
