Would you trust someone you meet online?

I read out the whole discussion and the comments posted here. And after reading all these comments i think i am gonna be the first different person here. So answer to this question from me is, it depends on person to person. Frankly speaking, i will trust them. But will not share any personal information with them till the time i don't get to know they are real. I have met thousands of people online and from those thousands people 10 of them are my really good friends since last 3 years. N i met them online only. We never knew each other. Tell me if i wouldn't had trusted them can they be my friends..? Now we talk on phone, we meet, we enjoy just like normal friends. So it depends on you how do you judge the person to whom you are talking. If you can't trust anyone then i guarantee you, you can never make friends. Whether it's on internet or it's a real life. See trust and believe are two different factors. Trust everyone but don't believe everyone. Believe them only when you feel they are real and they are worth your friendship. Not trusting anyone just because they can harm you is like not playing a match just because you will loose it. Atleast start playing it, make effort, make strategies, you have chance to win. But if you are not gonna play it there will be no chance. Same goes with this, Atleast trust them, try to know them, try to explore everything about them, may be that person could be worth your friendship. May be that person can be your best buddy. This can't happen if you don't trust them. Just be careful while sharing your personal information with them. That's it.

Nope, not that easy. Especially because everyone can fake their own information on internet. And anyway, there're several crimes happened here because of someone giving too much trust to person that they just know in internet. Various news had already reported it: a teenager being kidnapped and raped by a person that he just met on Facebook while they are meeting offline; and there're another bad news. Better be more careful.

I don't give full trust to someone that I meet online. It's not so easy. Why? Its because I don't know them personally. I don't even know if their name posted online are real, their address, their info and many more. I know that not all who people online has a bad intention but its not so good to give your full trust to someone you have never met. Maybe that person wants something from you that's why he/she is pretending to be good and nowadays, I always heard news about crimes happened because of social networking sites like a girl meet up with the man she used to know online then she was raped. It also depends on the person who he/she is going to handle the situation but I will never give my hundred percent full trust to someone I dont' know personally. Anyway that's all. Happy mylotting. :D

I don't particularly trust people online. I would never give out my personal info because there are too many creepy people online and you never know when there's a bad person on the other end of the chatroom or whatever.

It is hard to trust someone I meet online because I have heard many things about people being killed by people they knew online. Maybe I will be generous when chatting with them or talking to them online,but if they asked me things like money or valuable belongings I will no more contact them. It is really hard to trust someone online because they can easily run or hide when they did something wrong.

Generally we should not trust people whom we meet online. Because there are more possibilities that they can hide their original identity.

I would treat them like an acquaintance, someone I know but not well, kinda like someone you meet riding the bus or at the gym. You might talk to them about basic things in your life but you wont get into deep personal information until you know them better.

Really, I don't trust people that I have just met in real life for a long time. Or rather, I am going to give them a chance to prove themselves or not really prove themselves. I have been burned one time too many by people in real life to give my trust away the easily. They have to prove themselves. On the Internet, it is an entirely different ball game, because there are many more opportunities for deception to say the very least. Are there trustworthy people on the Internet? Of course there are. However, just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that someone's not out to get you. I also like to keep my life on the Internet and my real life separate as possible. There are many friends in real life that I would never talk to on the Internet. And I'm certain that it would be different interacting with them online. There are many times where you cannot figure out the true intentions of a person online, not that it is much easier in real life.