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[waterspyder]

I think part of the reason I chose to abandon most interaction over the internet is that I find too many people to be fake when online.

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[metawade.livejournal.com]

I have definitely found that to be true of web personals sites. But LJ feels very different. Admittedly, I've only been on for 2 weeks, and have not met anyone IRL, so it is possible that they are putting up a facade. But it is much more difficult to put up an internally consistent ongoing journal-style facade than to fake three paragraphs on a personals site, it seems. Have you encountered fake people on LJ too? And is that because of the online nature of how you met, or are they maybe just inherently fake?

[zenten.livejournal.com]

I think she means less people pretending to be completely someone else, and more people hiding their true emotional reactions to things.

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Or just being jerks and thinking they can get away with it because of the "anonymous internet"