Why be so deceitful???

July 27, 2007

You know in today’s technology its really does fascinate me how people can be soooo deceitful online and never think others will find out. I had a friend I had for years online, so I assumed was a friend, at least I can say I am who I said I was. Find fault with that, oh well, its who I am and who I will always be. Perhaps a person doesn’t find out right away, but over time, things tend to shed light on a situation. I have a different view and perception of things, NOW that I did when I first come online. I guess I would expect the same out of others, honesty, respect and integrity. I was loyal to them and even know secrets to this day and being the type of person I am I would never EVER tell anyone. For one, when I think about it, what is the point really? They are the ones who have to live with themselves. There are those who enjoy what they do. So the point to my blog…..

My son doesn’t understand why he can not have a myspace blog. He is 15 years old. Just last fall he use to play games in Yahoo’s Kids. This person posed as just another teen at first. Then over time he started emailing my son with links to adult type stuff. He had said he was going on vacation and asked my son to keep tabs on his email and gave him his user and password. And that was a whole new can of worms. I don’t feel it was by chance that I walked by to check on him when I did. I handled it. But he doesn’t understand still today, and now we are arguing over the fact. So I said as long as you use your real age and not put up any information about your self like date of birth and where you live, etc… he had a problem with this. This would limit his ability to have friends cause he would be listed as a teen. He wanted me to lie and put an adult age in. NO I won’t do that either.

His running into bad people would be worse than anything I have been through online. I knew before things went totally bad it was coming and already had pulled away big time. I may be naive, but I aint’ stupid! They are foolish to ever think no one will ever find out true things. But it does come around and it does happen. What do you have in the end? Well I still am alive and kicking, gained a little knowledge from the lil life lesson I was taught. I have my guard up at all times now which is a shame in essence because there are those who don’t understand why I seem to keep away when they want to become closer friends, like I don’t trust them. It’s not that I don’t trust them per say, just after what I have already been though, I don’t want to go through that again. You tend to put on armour to protect yourself and I am not going to say I am sorry for being this way because I am not. My son’s situation could of been much worse had I not paid attention to him online. I won’t walk blindly in this area. However if he truly wants a blog, I am thinking of buying another domain and setting him up with a blog. Its a compromise and I am willing to spend the money for that and hosting. This would open a new experience in learning some new things with online stuff. He can have it looking the way he wants and link to his favorite things and have a journal and express himself. Its the best I can do at this point!

Posted by Suzie Q | Filed Under Lifesavers

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2 Responses to “Why be so deceitful???”

Amy on July 27th, 2007 11:29 pm

Aww, Love this layout! Im sorry to hear about that, the internet is a scary place sometimes! Haley has a myspace, but it is under the conditions that I always have the login info and I randomly check it out and log in as her and all, lol! I dont understand it either, I am who I am, on and off the computer, I dont understand why some jerks have to play games online and pretend ot be something else!
Brian Gardner on July 28th, 2007 1:40 am

Don’t be annoyed - you’re a rockstar!

http://www.briangardner.com/blog/sweet-linking.htm