Letting "strangers" inside your house...
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jass1960
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Do you Believe?
But do you believe all the crap?
Surely not........
Can't say that I do - maybe I am just a cynic.
But too look on the bright I am not a bi-sexual lady because they must get every weirdo on the web posing as a bisexual female as well.
But do you believe all the crap?
Surely not........
Can't say that I do - maybe I am just a cynic.
But too look on the bright I am not a bi-sexual lady because they must get every weirdo on the web posing as a bisexual female as well.
Cheyenne
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Cath! said:
It seems safer due to the distance involved. They can't actually "get" you like someone standing on your front doorsteps. I never open my front door unless I know the person standing there. Everyone else can take a hike.
The real problem with the internet is that those manipulative people can get to your children, too. My niece is starting to use AIM to chat with her friends- she is a few years short of being a teen and very innocent. I worry about her. Too many bad people on the net have access to children just because it is easy!
Cath
Parents teach their children not to speak to strangers because it is difficult to explain to a young child what can go wrong if they speak to the wrong individual.
We, on the other hand, are 'mature' adults and are able to distinguish between the crap and the genuine. We let strangers into our house because we know how to deal with them.
Sadly the preceding paragraph is only true for a small percentage of us. Most of us are guilty, from time to time, of believing the hype and of trusting the wrong person. You only have to look at half the arguments that happen in Lit.
You just have to trust your instincts, make the mistakes, and move on. Or you could drive yourself insane - look at some of the members in here!
Parents teach their children not to speak to strangers because it is difficult to explain to a young child what can go wrong if they speak to the wrong individual.
We, on the other hand, are 'mature' adults and are able to distinguish between the crap and the genuine. We let strangers into our house because we know how to deal with them.
Sadly the preceding paragraph is only true for a small percentage of us. Most of us are guilty, from time to time, of believing the hype and of trusting the wrong person. You only have to look at half the arguments that happen in Lit.
You just have to trust your instincts, make the mistakes, and move on. Or you could drive yourself insane - look at some of the members in here!
I take everything on the internet with a grain of salt. If you want to lie to me, that's ok. I don't have to believe you.
We do give other's on the internet alot of ourselves. But how much can they really do with it?
If I post my pic on here, someone could take it and post it on some naked chick. I don't really care, chances are I won't ever even see it. I've never given my address of phone # to anyone I haven't met in person first. It's just to risky.
I think it's very important to teach your kids about the dangers of the internet. If they're old enough to log on, they're old enough to hear about all the bad things that happen to kids who get involved with the strangers. What you tell them is very important. You can't be there all the time to monitor what they do. Many schools have internet access and aren't as supervised as they should be.
We do give other's on the internet alot of ourselves. But how much can they really do with it?
If I post my pic on here, someone could take it and post it on some naked chick. I don't really care, chances are I won't ever even see it. I've never given my address of phone # to anyone I haven't met in person first. It's just to risky.
I think it's very important to teach your kids about the dangers of the internet. If they're old enough to log on, they're old enough to hear about all the bad things that happen to kids who get involved with the strangers. What you tell them is very important. You can't be there all the time to monitor what they do. Many schools have internet access and aren't as supervised as they should be.
Mr
What are you doing in my home, you manipulative person you!!!
Seriously, you are correct, but only in the broadest, vaguest definition of the terms "strangers" and "into our houses". Also, you start off talking about kids, then in the next breath turn the thrust of the thread to an all-encompassing sweep, as in "*we* believe", "PMs" and so on...
Kids? Yes - good point, and the best way to see what they are up to is to have their computer in the living room, and NOT their own. Even then, the understanding is that you can feel free to look over their shoulder at any time. They don't like it - tough. It is the Net equivalent of not getting into strange cars and so on...
Adults? If, by "we" you mean any adult using the Net, *you* must have initiated the "callers" by posting on the web (i.e. Literotica) or to someone directly, thereby "entering *their* homes" and thus giving tacit permission for them to reciprocate. After all, what's fair for you is fair turnabout for them... This is a 'given' when you decide to raise your metaphorical voice in the Internet Community! Why grumble about it?
If you really do believe "all the crapola you are fed" you are at least less than discriminating or at worst completely gullible. In real-life terms, you would be a danger to yourself walking the streets and shouldn't be allowed out for your own safety, because you would accept a lift off anyone. That, or you'd believe anthing people told you at the front door, casually letting people into your home.
Hell, I don't believe everything I see in the media, no matter how or who presents it, and I take *every* stranger's emails/postings with a gigantic pinch of salt, even if I've chatted for years with them
By stranger, I mean anyone I haven't physically met and had a friendship with for at least a year or so...
I think you have drastically overstated the case.
Styphon
Cath! said:
What are you doing in my home, you manipulative person you!!!
Seriously, you are correct, but only in the broadest, vaguest definition of the terms "strangers" and "into our houses". Also, you start off talking about kids, then in the next breath turn the thrust of the thread to an all-encompassing sweep, as in "*we* believe", "PMs" and so on...
Kids? Yes - good point, and the best way to see what they are up to is to have their computer in the living room, and NOT their own. Even then, the understanding is that you can feel free to look over their shoulder at any time. They don't like it - tough. It is the Net equivalent of not getting into strange cars and so on...
Adults? If, by "we" you mean any adult using the Net, *you* must have initiated the "callers" by posting on the web (i.e. Literotica) or to someone directly, thereby "entering *their* homes" and thus giving tacit permission for them to reciprocate. After all, what's fair for you is fair turnabout for them... This is a 'given' when you decide to raise your metaphorical voice in the Internet Community! Why grumble about it?
If you really do believe "all the crapola you are fed" you are at least less than discriminating or at worst completely gullible. In real-life terms, you would be a danger to yourself walking the streets and shouldn't be allowed out for your own safety, because you would accept a lift off anyone. That, or you'd believe anthing people told you at the front door, casually letting people into your home.
Hell, I don't believe everything I see in the media, no matter how or who presents it, and I take *every* stranger's emails/postings with a gigantic pinch of salt, even if I've chatted for years with them
By stranger, I mean anyone I haven't physically met and had a friendship with for at least a year or so...I think you have drastically overstated the case.
Styphon
Styphon...
I was just using "kids" as an example of naivite.
I have been guilty of believing the crappola I have been fed. I have been guilty of allowing...no, INVITING...these manipulative strangers into my life and my home via messenger, chat rooms, etc.
I honestly do not think that I am overstating the case. I use the "trolls" on this board as an example of those manipulative strangers that can incite a riot with one carefully sent PM or post. They may not truly be a "troll", they may be someone that you knew/know and has an ability to spin words so eloquently that you cannot believe that they would be lying or steering you to perform deeds that you would not normally do.
They may appear to have "facts", even tho their "facts" are delusions in their own minds. They have the ability to take those delusions and obsess over them to the point where they actually do become "facts" in their own mind. Those are the delusions that turn into evil spew that they need to share.
The point I was trying to make...is that you never really know who you are talking to...and that their "facts" are not always truthful... I was just trying to tell people to beware of "strangers" as the candy they hand out can sometimes be tainted with poison.
Does that make more sense?
I was just using "kids" as an example of naivite.
I have been guilty of believing the crappola I have been fed. I have been guilty of allowing...no, INVITING...these manipulative strangers into my life and my home via messenger, chat rooms, etc.
I honestly do not think that I am overstating the case. I use the "trolls" on this board as an example of those manipulative strangers that can incite a riot with one carefully sent PM or post. They may not truly be a "troll", they may be someone that you knew/know and has an ability to spin words so eloquently that you cannot believe that they would be lying or steering you to perform deeds that you would not normally do.
They may appear to have "facts", even tho their "facts" are delusions in their own minds. They have the ability to take those delusions and obsess over them to the point where they actually do become "facts" in their own mind. Those are the delusions that turn into evil spew that they need to share.
The point I was trying to make...is that you never really know who you are talking to...and that their "facts" are not always truthful... I was just trying to tell people to beware of "strangers" as the candy they hand out can sometimes be tainted with poison.
Does that make more sense?
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Re: Styphon...
One thing to keep in mind baby, none of this is real life. It is simple to ignore trolls and flamers, in fact that is the best way to handle them. They are of the perverse type that crave attention, even negative attention. If you do not acknowledge their existance, they have no recourse.
I love you!
Cath! said:
One thing to keep in mind baby, none of this is real life. It is simple to ignore trolls and flamers, in fact that is the best way to handle them. They are of the perverse type that crave attention, even negative attention. If you do not acknowledge their existance, they have no recourse.
I love you!
