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The rules of convention on social media platforms like myLot are a little bit different aren't they? They really do facilitate conversations and forging friendships in a unique way that would certainly not work in real life. Imagine it in real life for a minute: you're chatting with a friend about something personal like an ailment or a relative or an addition to your home or a loss or something... and just like that a stranger walks up and starts chatting too, commenting on your family pictures, giving you medical advice, laughing along loudly at your every joke and just like that calling you by name. You'd think they're crazy right? And what about if they start following you around, jumping in on everything you say, or even tagging or tapping other strangers to jump in on your conversation until it's just everybody talking at the same time. Pretty scary, right? And then, here's the icing on the cake, someone steps in with a wallet, and starts to hand out money everytime someone says anything? I know I would be looking for a way to escape out of there. But that's how it works here on myLot. Strangers chat and we share things about ourselves and we get different perspectives... and it isn't a one hundred percent safe space (no space online ever is) but it's a pretty good space, right? And every day we log on here we get to learn something new. But seriously though, have you ever thought about this model happening in real life? What would you do if a stranger just walked up to you and joined in on a conversation you were having?