This one is for you and for me. I don't know who you are and you don't know who i am. We meet through this virtual world. But to be very honest, we exist here more than we exist in the real world. We find ourselves more open and close to the people we meet online, even though we are told again and again to not trust strangers, especially the ones we meet here. Since here, anyone can be anyone. I can be a 67 years old man with bald head and perverted mind, or i can be a a sweet girl of 21 years or i can be a man in my mid 30s, cheating on my wife with 4 different women. The point i am trying to make is that, you have no way of telling what is truth and what is a lie. You only know what i tell you and you have no choice but to believe it. If you are smart enough, you'll try to find me on other places on the internet but if i am smarter than you, I'd probably have different identities everywhere. The thing is, we never should trust anyone we meet on the internet. Even though we more open to them, since they don't know us and would probably listen to whatever we tell them. We share our secrets with them, we tell them every little details, since it's easier to talk to someone by writing- via email, instant messaging, texting- instead of talking face to face. But we never think of risks we are taking while we do this- trusting a stranger.
On that note I'll leave you to think about it next time you meet someone online and are about to pour your heart out to them.
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