Stranger than fiction
Oct 16th, 2007 by Lynne
Pathological liars existed before the Internet. No doubt about that. But the Internet obscures the chemical and visual cues that might tip you off in a face-to-face interaction.
I followed a link from Dear Author’s über-thread on the most recent plagiarism scandal to a story in LA Weekly about a long-distance Internet romance that turned out to be just the mind games of a pathological liar. It makes for fascinating reading but, alas, doesn’t surprise me much. I’ve been on the Internet for thirteen years and various online systems and bulletin boards for over a decade before that, so I’ve seen a crapload of crazy.
Never know what kind of human trash you’re gonna dig up on the Internets, do you? Except sometimes, every once in a while, a couple of people meet and turn out to be just as advertised.
We won the lottery a long time ago; no doubt about it. I love you, sweetie.
::sniffle::