As I was driving home just now, my mind keeps on thinking of an incident my girlfriend told me this afternoon.
A female friend of my girlfriend found a message from another female to her boyfriend, with content like “I miss you”, “I love you” and such. She wonders if her boyfriend is cheating on her.
When comes to think about it, this could be real. But, could be just another prank. What wil you do if someone play such a prank on you? No matter how hard you tried, your boy/girlfriend just refuse to trust you?
Then I suddenly had the thought of disguising into another identity, a gentlemen at first, and become some friend’s friend in Friendster. And then send out similar message, and see how my friend will react to such message? Perhaps by then, everyone will know that there will always be a stranger on the internet that might come “hi, hello, miss you, love you”.
The internet is such a great tool. Frankly speaking, I will be half as dumb as of now if I were to live without it. Dictionary, wikipedia, news, analysis, reviews, tips and tricks, how-to, forums, tutorials and so much more. People are sharing infomation in all possible way and it just gets better and better. From plain text to colourful fonts, audio, video, or even interactive flash.
But on the other hand, people hide thier real identity behind the ips. People starts to become someone whom they can only dream of in reality. A nerd become the most popular chick in a forum; a face full with acnes fat chick pretending to be the most beatiful girl that she proclaim that’s her in the avatar. Cyber sex, fraud case, scammers and what’s not.
Almost 90% of internet user are what they are not in reality. (Yeah, I made up this figure, but its what I observe thru almost 15 years of internet experience). Lies become so common. Stealing of royalty were done by human with only 1 digit of years of living experience. Who still speaks true on internet nowadays?
“My name is Dick.” “Oh, what a lovely name!”
“My mom just pass away…” “Oh I am so sorry to hear that!” (Yeah, while drinking the extra large carbonated drink and grabbing to the junkfood)
What if, there’s someone out there who still speaks the truth?
No, your hair looks ugly on you. No, that cloth sucks. No, the photographer really didnt catch the best moment. No, I am not sorry. No, that is not funny. No, they really look fake.
Can I be this someone?