Rant about online people -- no one here!!!

[ZedAus]

I met my hubby on a chat forum (just a general one, can't even remember how I found it) just over 9 years ago and it took a lot of emails, chatting, phone calls, letter, photos etc, before he came over here from Canada for a holiday that October and we haven't been apart since. We are coming up to our 7th anniversary in June. On that same forum there was a girl who ALWAYS had something incredible happening in her life. The last time I bothered 'listening' to her was when she was supposedly sitting in a hospital bed, typing messages to us, just an hour or so after miscarrying her twins. She was talking quite normally and didn't mention anything about the pregnancy after that. No matter what the reason for this unusual behaviour, she needed help. On another board, for teachers, there was another lady who constantly had 'dramas' happening in her life, but after she left the board (although people say she is still visiting under different names) people said that they had met her and read about her in online newspapers and she was a 'real' person and very nice. So, I'm still not sure about that one.

I have met some people from that teaching site on a trip to the US and they were fantastic people. I guess you just have to sort out the good from the bad, just as you do in real life.

Zelma

[almostheaven]

Allison, hubby and I met up with a group from the writer's forum we used to post on and had a great time. In fact, one from that group is our best friend, even though none of us no longer visit that board...too many trolls, and the fake death. The only real thing that died was the board. ::sigh::

[harrypotterybarn]

A note to that lady over on that other board:

We all know you really haven't been through all you say you've been through, you never get your stories straight. It's so nice to know that the dead hubby you mourned last month is now getting a really great promotion! And that all your children are pregnant, miscarrying, addicted to drugs, graduating Harvard, marrying into royalty, etc...especially since they were all killed in various car accidents over the years leaving you all alone in the world.

But for cryin' out loud, DO NOT use it all as an excuse to peddle your crappy cosmetics business to us! Yeah, I'll be giving you a board vacation again for soliciting today.

[AuntieMameNJ]

I've been on a dozen boards (moderator on some) and never had a resurrection. That does take the cake. There are lots of crazies for sure.

But the craziest person in my life was actually a very good friend who, after she was widowed, turned into the crazy cat lady. Eventually she had over 40 cats in the house and, when they came to clear her out, they learned she had her dead cats in the chest freezer.

After that, not much surprises me.