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Originally Posted by pan6467
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And when the dust clears, the only 2 things that become truly certain is .... everyone has a darkside that someone else isn't going to like and that you've ruined friendships over false perceptions and lofty ideals the other could never have achieved.
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I kinda agree with most of the previous post, but I have to point out that I don't think it's an overly-lofty goal to expect people to not be mean, unkind, etc.
I do think it's good that people realize that you don't truely get to *know* folks thought this filter of an internet forum. You think you do, but you don't. It's like those first Big Brother reality shows in a way. There's types of editing and presentation with different motivations that we don't/can't know about. Like television programs, the internet is a very real filter, and folks need to keep that in mind all the time. What all folks present on TFP is a persona, and the degree to which it reflects how an individual would match still subjective interpretation of the more immediate personal presentation of a "real life" person varies wildly--and for the most part, we'll never have that opportunity to know.
Even how people perceive and present themselves without intent to impress or mislead can be very different from how I end up seeing them.