• silverwhisper said on Oct 05, 2006....

  i gotta ask: if someone goes to the effort of lying about something on a blog, aren't they going to lie about it when asked?
  
  ed
  

• StrangeOne said on Oct 05, 2006....

  hahhaha that's true, I guess it's a rhetorical question... :)
  

• Weird_World said on Oct 06, 2006....

  StrangeOne
  I am very honest in my blogs...
  I am just dishonest in real life...
  Now how does that sound??
  
  Salaam
  S
  

• YoungAndNaive said on Oct 06, 2006....

  I am totally honest in my blog since that is the point of blogging. You tell th REAL thing because no one really knows you. It is where you are able to pour out the things you wouldn't normally say.
  

• gingersoul said on Oct 06, 2006....

  Anonymity free you from liying.
  
  Nobody knwos you, nobody can hurt you if you tell them the truth, you can let go bad feelings, rage, love, frustration...
  
  you can say to another blogger how you appreciate what he/she writes and give compliments you will never dare to say to a complete stranger if you would meet face to face....and you are sincere because what is the point in lying to somebody you are never going to meet, most likely?
  
  In real life we lie to reach a goal.
  We flatter someone else because we want become their friend, we lie to our lovers because we dont want hurt them or because we don't love them anymore, we lie to our children because we want to protect them for a painful truth...
  
  Here.....for me, i dont see the point of lying...unless we are lying firstly to ourselves....but who doesn't lie to ouselves in real life?
  
  I can understand that maybe here is easier to exaggerate our reality just because nobody is going to meet anybody...
  I have had some doubts reading some blogs about the entity of some feelings that were described but i didnt had the sensation that there was a lie underneath them.
  
  Sometime people can exagerate to nicely close an argument, to define a tought, to mark an idea.
  
  maybe i have been naive and all of you are only one blogger with multiple personalities......who knows...it can be possible....
  
  There is no way to know it...isn't? Is the big danger of virtual world.....
  
  i tend to believe what i read....because i can assure you can believe what i write....
  
  But....now....how can you say if what i said is true? LOL
  
  I think we uncosciously accept a code of behavior in comunity such SC .... first rule being: don't mess up with anybody.
  
  But then..there are always the exceptions.....
  

• silentmysts said on Oct 06, 2006....

  In the hard cold truth, everyone can lie on internet. It is real easy to fool others. That is why people can lie in blogging, too. People cannot see their face expression on the computer that is major reason people can lie real easily. It take a while for other people to catch their lies.
  
  I agree with most of the comments that honest is the best policy. Be truthful all the time, so it won't hurt people too much like lies does.
  
  Bloggers need be more truthful when they are writing to tell people. If they want tell fiction story, mention it as fiction story. So readers know that you just are writing to enterain people.
  

• honeyriver said on Oct 06, 2006....

  Well, honestly, once I ever thought to write fictions in my blog. But somehow, I just can't do that. I don't feel comfortable and I don't feel easy about writing a novel in the blog. So, what I write in my blogs are all the truth...
  

• rmuxagirl said on Oct 06, 2006....

  I tend to be honest in my blogs. I use my blogs whether it be here, or blogspot to express my ideas or vent my anger or frustration about a certain situation.
  

• momsrock said on Oct 06, 2006....

  I don't see why you would need to lie in a blog...no one knows you anyway!
  
  I am honest in mine, it is the only outlet I have.
  

• missb said on Oct 06, 2006....

  So far, I've been pretty honest. I write what I think is interesting. Besides, I don't have any dramatic events happening in my life that I need to make it sound better like a novel anyway :)
  
  Cheers!
  

• DreamDrifter said on Oct 07, 2006....

  Although my blog may be a bit strange it is honest. I am writing in a way that is sort of story telling but it's true stories of my life. Now in normal life I do my best to never lie [not as easy as it sounds when you say it] but I definately do not tell all - if you read my blog you will see why - in this modern world it is hard enough to fit in without letting people know that you are ........ strange. Now I would willingly say that what I talk about in my blog may not be "real" but it is "true". What I mean is that I may simply have some mental problem that makes me "see" things that are not real, but if so it doesn't change what I see and so when I write about my experiences I am telling the truth since I am writing what I experienced even if it didn't really happen. Now I believe that what I experience is real but I know most of the people I know would not and that is why I express it this way.
  
  So, am I honest in my blogging? Yes. I think of it as being sort of like an autobiography and if I can manage what I want to do in my writing then it will be like a dramatization - like watching a movie about a real person rather than a documentry about them. I hope that communicates my goal. Truth but written in a story format. Well, I don't think I have managed that in my writing yet but I keep telling myself that I first need to write the background so that the story will make sense. Either that or I simply am not good at telling it as a story :-D
  

• ThrobbingPaganSexGod said on Oct 14, 2006....

  Back when I started blogging (on another site), I was completely honest and wrote mainly about my real life. Then I realized that the blogosphere was already crammed with people much like me living much the same life, and the world didn't need another "Today I saw a squirrel at lunch, I threw it part of my sandwich" post. Now I'm honest when I write about my life, but I rarely do--my writing is usually about neat things I've seen or thought up, silly rants, snippets of fiction I'm working on, and so forth.
  
  People who make up completely new lives online aren't just sad, they're unethical. All but one of the bloggers I've seen who were found out had invented a new life for sympathy, for self-aggrandizement, or to play with other people's hearts--wrong, just wrong. You can say, "It's just the Internet, so none of it counts," but there are real people out there feeling real worry or sorrow because someone they think of as a friend is supposedly in trouble.
  

• evillinclinations said on Dec 03, 2006....

  I wonder that, too.....Personally, I don't see the point in creating my own little fantasy world, although I suppose it'd be good for the writing muscles....

• StrangeOne said on Dec 16, 2006....

  weirdworld - sounds like you have a desire to be an honest individual but for some reason have not figured out how to be one in real life! and so you make blogging your 'honesty outlet'
  
  Throbbing, that's an interesting take on those who make up new lives online; I've heard of that, I used to think those were just sad individuals but no harm done... but I never imagined that there are those readers who took them so seriously and suffered for it! Now I have a new perspective on it... wow!
  
  As for me I am honest but like Throbbing I've never seen the point of those day-to-day boring "I saw a squirrel today" whatever posts; I find them boring to read, so why would I write stuff like that to bore others with?! hahaha... so I only write about things that could be interesting... whenever the mood strikes me to write, anyway, which I guess is not so often after all.. :)
  
  
  
  
  

• Calyptic_August said on Jan 09, 2007....

  StrangeOne i like this it is so true.  I though, am pretty much the complete opposite of everything you just said. I lie about my life and my feelings in real life, i hide behind a mask. But, i donno on my blogs i am truely honest on how i feel. I donno why maybe its cause i am a coward and am afraid to show my real feelings but i guess thats just what people do somtimes. However i am slowing taking off my mask one thing at a time i guess.

• Marysol said on Jun 29, 2007....

  What a great thread! I started blogging about a month ago with the express purpose of getting my *voice* out there, so yeah, I'm honest. I draw primarily on my own experiences and hope that my humor and compassion will have positive impact. Be warned: I'm a pottymouth.

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