(September 1, 2016 at 8:51 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote:(September 1, 2016 at 8:26 am)abaris Wrote: I have strong sympathies for a number of people here, but how would I vouch for someone I never really met? Real life relies on so much more than occasional web conversations or PMs.
I met someone online who I quite quickly came to know more than anyone in so-called 'real life'. Someone who has opened up to me and been more honest towards me than even my own family who I lived with every day for over 25 years. My family have barely even confided anything in me.
Because guess what... the internet is real life too. It's only not real if people are bullshitting. Presence of physical contact and absence of physical distance =/= reality.
The problem with this logic is that distance abets falsity when those folk are so inclined. And it happens.
