How many of you have lied about your age to someone you've met online?

[Celestiale]

I am usually verrrrryyy truthful, but the other night I actually told someone that I was younger than I am (not on here of course!), and I'm starting to feel guilty! I don't know why I did it, cause I've never done it before and I'm really not all that old...hmmmmmmmmm.

Anyone else want to share? I'm curious!

 

[Never]

Gender, but not age.

 

[Celestiale]

Gender, but not age.

Wow...really? Did you ever fess up?

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Well technically I am lying about my age on here right now....profile says I am 19, but I wont be 19 until the 12th of this month.

 

[Simply Me]

If I get to the point where I'm comfortable enough to tell someone my age, then I have usually sent them a picture by then and no way to lie at that point. I did have someone tell me they were 42 and they turned out to be 68 and female. Not giving out details.

 

[Celestiale]

Naughty boy Sleeping Warrior!!!!!

And ACK!!! Simply Me...you poor thing!

 

[CW]

If I get to the point where I'm comfortable enough to tell someone my age, then I have usually sent them a picture by then and no way to lie at that point. I did have someone tell me they were 42 and they turned out to be 68 and female. Not giving out details.

That sure sounds like a potential story line,,,



never lied about age or gender,,, yet

 

[SleepingWarrior]

Well I just kinda thought it would be easier to put 19 down since I was only 2 months away from being that at the time! Honest!

 

[Renegade]

Yep. I'm really a two thousand year old Mummy. Someone left their laptop in the tomb during the last dig. Literotica was in his favorites list.

 

[Unclebill]

Well I just kinda thought it would be easier to put 19 down since I was only 2 months away from being that at the time! Honest!

Hey, at least your math is sound. 18.83 rounds to 19, not 18! So I wouldn't consider that a lie.

Now if you had rounded it to 29, that's a bit of a stretch!

 

[Never]

Celestiale:
"Wow...really? Did you ever fess up?"
I told the truth to one,
I told the truth but explained by lying to another,
and one I told the truth to originally but then lied to by explaining the truth.

See everyone, you can't trust people you meet on the net.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

nope... never did

 

[CW]

Celestiale:
"Wow...really? Did you ever fess up?"
I told the truth to one,
I told the truth but explained by lying to another,
and one I told the truth to originally but then lied to by explaining the truth.

See everyone, you can't trust people you meet on the net.

My gawd,,, that explanation has more circles than 'Who's on First"

 

[Never]

Sorry CW. The entire four years made my head spin.
That's right folks, you can know people on the internet for YEARS and they still may be lying to you.

I have to be honest though, I knew over fifty people who I didn't lie to, I didn't tell them the truth either but I never lied to them.

 

[CW]

That's right folks, you can know people on the internet for YEARS and they still may be lying to you.

Hell, you can know people in real life for years and still not know them,,, why should this venue be any different?

 

[Morden]

<walks in and winks at Celestiale>

"Though lieing may be bad Truth is relavent."

"To be honest does it really matter if you told one person you were a little younger then you are? No not really. Though if it is someone you plan on being friends with or something more you may eventually want to fess up."

 

[MysteryJKR]

nopidy nope nope. Ive had others lie to me about there ages though. But after we started to become closer they always told me the truth. One of the times it was a major thing because.. well it was alot younger than I originally thought but it didnt change our friendship any.

 

[Nicole]

I never have in Real life, so why would I online?

Is being 29 really that bad?

About the only thing I've lied about online is that I have to run, then end up sticking around, mind you I always end up posting and they see I'm still there anyway, so what the point of that is I dunno.

I don't talk to too many people anymore and the ones I do talk to know that I may need to leave in a hurry for my son and their cool about it.

So in other words, I don't need to lie.

Okay now what was the question? Man did I just ramble shit or what ?????

 

[Shylady]

Nope never have, I like being 40 so why say any different?

 

[Roll-One]

Nope never have, I never really felt the need to lie about it.

 

[Earthgoddess]

I have never lied about my age, and stopped lying about my weight onceI realized there are many,many folks who could care less if I wear a size 2 or a size 20.
Now playing younger after the real age is given-well ,Hanging my head down, that I have done. Bad Goddess-No,No!

 

[willywanker]

Never felt the need to lie. Why? If they arn't interested in a 43 year old male, then its time to move on.

Besides that, it gets me in with woman around my own age and I like that. So what is the point in making something up and then trying to remember who I told what.

 

[Cheyenne]

Sorry CW. The entire four years made my head spin.
That's right folks, you can know people on the internet for YEARS and they still may be lying to you.

Okay, I have to ask WHY you would do such a thing? Someone else recently had a thread where someone was lied to over the period of a two year friendship. I thought that was amazing, that no sane person would spend two years in a lie. You just basically said you did it for FOUR years! WHY? What did you get from it? Did you think at all about the effect on the other person? I really am curious.


And no, I've never lied about my age. I'm usually brutally honest about myself.

 

[Never]

Cheyenne:
"You just basically said you did it for FOUR years! WHY? What did you get from it? Did you think at all about the effect on the other person? I really am curious."



h..
Yeah, four years is a long time now that I think of it.
Lies are interesting like that. You tell an itty-bitty lie to someone you don't care about and then they tell people and you're not going to say you lied at that point and the next thing you know you've got this huge, honkin' avalanche of a lie behind you. Why? I liked the idea of being what I wasn't in RL - at fifteen I was despite to escape reality and the Internet was custom made for me. What I got was acceptance of a sort.

This was in a chat room and there were a great deal of 'other people' who I simply let believe whatever they wanted to even though I knew they were wrong. The two I knew the longest weren't angry or hurt when I told them.. A girl I lied to for a month and a half was furious.

 

[unusuallyconfused]

Nope, never had. Don't lie. Not good at it. I guess thats the end of story.