How honest are you with your interent friends

Oh no, I did't mean I was fully opened here, I meant what I say, I say with truth, I don't hide behind lies. I think that is what makes PPE upset, are the lies..

Oops sorry mayka, I opened this from my inbox and was thinking of another discussion. Anyway, my comment about, "I don't air out my laundry to all." means just that, I don't tell everything...

I think all of us disclose just a few things about our personal lives here. Nobody is fully open.

mayka! It means my honesty and transparency gets certified. Thanks a lot for kind words about me.

I know a lot about you in these three odd years that I have been on mylot and it has been a great experience commmunicating with you both online and offline. Yes I know you share in detail about your life with your online friends and treat each of them as very special friends.

yes. by virtue of experience online -- I will ask only a few details and share a few details with others. I was hesitating to post my photo online because my wife was objecting. After six months of joining mylot, I posted my photo.

Agreed

One can hide a truth from some one but to hide a truth one should not be telling lies. We do not have to reveal everything about ourselves to others. But whatever we say has to be the truth and not a bunch of lies.

For me my mylot friends are also my internet friends. Have got to know some of them so closely that we now communicate via emails and telephone too. How do you say you do not have internet friends when you have 900 friends here with whom you can communicate daily through discussions. When you are lonely and need someone to talk to just log on to mylot just as I did today. I was alone at home and was feeling a bit down. So at 7 in the morning I logged on to mylot and in an hour started three discussions and am now interacting with friends and not feeling lonely anymore.

I noticed on your profile that you have over 900 friends listed. Now I know that just because a person is on that list doesn't mean they are truly your friend. It takes time to get to know someone and you have to interact with them. But surely there are a few of that 900 that you would call friend? There are several people that I have gotten to know here on mylot that I call friend here and would be proud to call friend face to face also.

I too hold back personal information when I make new friends. Be it on the net or in real life. It is only after knowing them well for a long time that I am able to open up.

It is right. Women should hold back personal details about them and not share with people introduced online. I appreciate this strategy.

It is true that we cannot always trust people we do no know very well. We may not tell them the truth about ourselves. It is okay to hide the truth. But we should not be telling lies either.

I don't tell lies too and if I find you are trying to ask something personal, I just ignore you or shift to another topic.

It is better to share with one single person whom you trust rather than with the whole world. You are lucky to be having such a close and trustworthy friend. All the best to you.

But sometimes the disapproval can be seen in their online replies /responses. How do you deal with that? Just ignore it?

It depends on why they disapprove. If their response is reasonable and questioning then I will try explaining why I take a certain stance. If they are just belligerent then, like you said, I pretty much ignore it. Everyone has the right to like or dislike whoever they want.

We most of the time hide the truth from strangers. As we get to know them better we start sharing more information. Hiding the truth is okay. But making up stories and telling a bunch of lies to impress someone or to attract someone attention is wrong. This is something that I do not like. It make me loose complete trust in that person.

Telling the truth is much easier than telling lies and then remembering those lies.

Yes our online friends cannot hurt us in any way. And they are our life support at times.

We need not reveal anything that are against the rules. But whatever we say should be the truth. There was one mylotter who in one discussion was bragging about getting about a 100 dollars a month on a particular site and in another discussion he said that his total online earnings a month was not exceeding more than 10 to 15 dollars and so was asking for tips how on to increase his earnings. I thought of him and started two discussions today.

It is good to have an honest behavior online for a healthy relationship. But unfortunately not all think so. Some people tell a lot of lies about themselves. Cannot figure out the reason though.

Personal information only to a certain extent is shared online. Nothing that anyone could do any harm to. Very very personal details are never shared.

I agree, to my knowledge I am faithful to everybody.

With us spending so much time with the computers both in office and at home it is not surprising that many of us have more online friends than offline friends. Even though we may not share everything with our online friends whatever we do should be truthful.

Its nice to know that you take friendships seriously. So you are a person who can be trusted genuinely. Will surely come to you for advice when needed. Hope you are there then.

The trust and comfort level builds with time. We may not share our whole life with online friends. We may hide the truth sometimes from them. But I think whatever we share should always be the truth and we should not be telling them lies just because they are far away from us and may never know the truth.

I am not sure that "hiding the truth" is the same thing as not revealing everything. There are things that I do not want to share, but that does not mean that I am lying about anything ... I am just keeping some things private the way that I think that they should be. When I hear "hiding the truth" it makes me think that someone is doing everything possible, such as lying, to keep the truth from coming out, which is not how I am online or offline. I also do not think that online friends will never know us or know the truth about us. I feel very close to a couple of friends online. I have never met them in person, but I have talked to one of them on the phone and exchanged e-mails and PMs with a few. I have a couple offline friends that I do not see, either, because we live in different states. I do not really see the difference between these two groups of friends.

I do not understand your logic of sending friend request only to girls just because you do not have a girlfriend. If you are seriously looking out for a girlfriend the internet is the last place you should look out.