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Although guilty of it myself, I still don’t understand why people make the claim that the Internet is not real life. There is no better mirror as to what happens in real life than what happens on TFP. A community of people trying to figure out how to coincide with as little conflict as possible. Making laws. Creating some sort of law enforcement… You get the point. Pioneers. Which is a really lame thing to call us. But it’s true.
To me this place is real life. I’ve seen just as many boobs, assholes, fights, really hot women, morons, idiots, bad poetry, news about Paris Hilton, and whatever else you can think of here as I do in every other part of my life. T o me, the ones that say that things work differently here as they do ‘in real life’ are the ones that have created this alter-ego for themselves here. Which is why nothing works. As soon as you separate yourself into differently personalities for reaction to different places and people than you will start to fight within yourself. And that shows. I’m the same person here as I am with my friends, family, pets, strangers… everyone. It helps keep me grounded. I can’t justify acting different. Saying things I wouldn’t normally say. Being more mean… sad… happy… I’m just me.
So, if you’re unhappy with how this place has turned out you should no further than yourself. You helped build it. Some of us have been here for almost the entire time. I know I’ve been here way longer than I remember. I’ve made great friends and will continue to talk to them long after this place dies. I’ve fell in love, learned how to hate someone I’ve never met, considered flying to another country just to meet someone for the first time, had strangers stay at my house, gotten laid, shown most of the world my penis, and many other things in my time here. And I know that all of it has helped keep this place going. So if you wanna help keep this place going all you have to do is…
You know already. Just do it.
(And I'm talking to all of you here... )
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heavy is the head that wears the crown
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