[ SECRET POST #2071 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2071 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Important: I'm really sorry about this, but I accidentally misclicked and deleted the submission post from last week instead of saving it. Managed to save the first page (25) of secrets, but the rest (about 100 or so) are gone.

If you submitted something last week (Aug 26-Sept 1), please resubmit it here.

The submissions post for next week is below as usual.

Secrets Left to Post: ?? pages, ??? secrets from Secret Submission Post #296.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I get that feeling, anon.

"Why are you always at your computer?"
"Because it's where my friends are and those people I'm chatting with are as real as you or me, just further away?"

A lot of people have this weird mental block about "internet friends" and them not being as real or as important as ones who are there in the same room with you as if they're not real people or something. It's frustrating.

[(Anonymous)]

That might come with witnessing others talk about flaky, passive aggressive, or confrontational fandom friends in their fandoms. I know some of the friend secrets on here made me wary of getting too invested in fandom friends.

[(Anonymous)]

My own experiences with online friends made me wary of getting too invested in new ones. Either I had a lot of bad luck or it's true that fandom os full of crazy people.

From my group of old fandom friends one crossed over into RL because she lived not far awa from me. We're very good friends still.
But all the others? Two of them stalked me, one pretended I was his girlfriend, one spread lies about me because I wasn't using chat programs that often and she thought I was just blocking her.
Oh, and one stole my art and tried to sell it under my name.
Not to mention almost all of them had some sort of heavy fetish going on and couldn't understand why I didn't want to hear about their wank material all day long.

So, one out of six people was great and the rest of them turned out to be obsessive assholes. No middle ground.
I have never experienced this sort of shit IRL.

[(Anonymous)]

The idea seems to be that since people on the Internet can lie without being caught, the people who call themselves your friends on the Internet are all liars.

[(Anonymous)]

This attitude interests me because it's logical, and it's important for people to take it into consideration and behave with caution. Yet, at the same time, I've found very few complete liars in my 14 years of hanging out with people on the internet. There are people who troll, of course, and people who make up stories to impress others (and, hey, people do that in real life, too!), but people tend not to lie about who they actually are. And if they have lied about something that pertains to their identity, they tend to come clean about it as soon as they start getting close to someone.

We're social creatures. Most of us are looking to make connections. And you can't make a true connection if your entire persona is a lie.

[(Anonymous)]

In fairness, there were a couple studies done...a few years back [iirc] that stated that people were less likely to lie online because the chances of ever meeting someone they'd met there were slim - so a lot of the shame that gets attached to various things in real life just wasn't there to motivate it.