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@Clench281

A friend of 25 years lived a lie online and I found out about 5 years ago. That along with him being generally a shitty friend the entire time and not contributing even what would be considered half of his share along with a comment that was the final straw caused me to end the friendship.

But yeah, the guy lives online as a completely different person. I knew a bunch of guys on MMOs who pretended to be girls. 2 of them caused major drama in guilds I was in back in 2004~2006.

It's funny you mention it actually. Some of the most honest yet aloof and not needing attention of their peers were my go-to friends. Even when people do not lie, getting them to be honest is another story. Open and honest that is. You'd be surprised how many people are too insecure even to share their own dreams. And we're not talking about sex or perversion or something they might consider embarrassing. We're talking scary dreams or creepy dreams that are fun to share.

I find people online are a different creature. I tend not to befriend them. People in real life usually are a lot better friends. Very few people online want to be friends with a friendly honest and open male in my opinion. Most of my friends were outcasts. I guess they were already kicked out of the crowd so my eccentricity (ironic calling it that because I'm quite the normal boy however the online world is very much the inverted world) seemed disarming and welcome to them in the crowd's stead.