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im very wary of the fact that there are some weird people out there, having a few encounters myself. So when it comes to
internet relationships, I don't think I could trust them unless I knew them through a friend or
something..
Would you trust them enough to give them your number and address?
That's exactly the kind of
point that I would like to draw here. I can only really trust a person well enough if I had only met them in person
before, or if they are really good friends of mine; nobody else, no matter how
hard they tried. **Shrugs** That's just me.
Of course, there's also a certain "special" trust I build with strangers I meet as well, but not to the
point where I would hand them any of my personal information. I would never send anything private to them, no matter how
long I have known them for, or when they do consider asking for my information, themselves, after a while. I
wouldn't even want to meet them in person had I had the chance to, unless I really get to know them very well over
time. Out of the entire time I had MSN, I probably only knew a handful of people well enough to "trust" them
in confidentiality. It really depends on the person and the way you observe their reactions and thoughts, of
course.
On another side note, speaking of online people - there are far too many weird individuals out there in the world who I
can't even believe actually exist on the face of this planet, and how they still actually adapt to today's
society in real life goes even beyond my imagination. I agree with you there - that's why I never join public chat
rooms in general. Truly, enough is enough.
That is why I only chat to people I have previously encountered before on a forum, for example, and only add people who
shares interests with me as well over there, not the other way around. It really makes things a whole lot easier for me
when developing good friends of mine, and most of the friends that I make in the decent forums usually turned out to be
the nicest people on my list. Had I met a stalker in general anyways, I would have easily dropped them out and blocked
them entirely in an instant. I can read people on IM quite easily like a book, which is part of the reason why I can
simply distinguish who are "good" and who are "bad" over a matter of time. That's just how
strict I am when talking towards these sort of people, unless I know them too well, of course.