Can you really trust people on the Internet?

It is my opinion that there are very few people that you can trust on the internet..If I were to actually meet someone off the net..I would have to really know more then hi and good bye or how are ya;)+

I think whenever we are meeint people online and having a conversation that become more personal ans serious then I think we have to become more vigilant in anyway. Bette set a limitation and breaks with disclosure. I don;t trust someone online easily but I always try to be friendly to show that I appreciate them and tressure a simple friendship we have online.

Yes and I have, and have made many good friends who have helped me out financially, morally, emotionally etc, I have visited some and they are truly great people. Like anything else you can look at the negative or you can look at the positive.

I tend to take everything on the net with a grain of salt. There are a few people I have gotten to know through a variety of sites and venues. I trust what they have to say more than most. I know from experience that meeting a person in the flesh does not mean they are any more truthful. I have met a few liars in my lifetime.

It's hard to trust anybody theses days. Sometimes I can feel that I can trust some people over the internet but like you said you don't know us and I don't know you but I feel that you are a cool person to hang around with and I sure would like to meet you someday. I always tell the truth don't like lying to anyone.Have a good day.

You can trust people on internet provided you don't lose your composure. Let me explain it a bit clear, Say now i am here and i do talk to you good i don't have any preferences like asking your personal things unless you feel like sharing them with me. I exactly don't have anything to do with your personal particulars. At the same time i do maintain some standards , i take this internet friendship as simple as that. Just never take these friendships to heart unless you know the person very well and meet them once. Never expect truth from some one whom you didn't meet. Regarding this love and stuff i seldom agree if some one says they love me or i ask the other person not to trust me when i say i love you, it's very simple when we don't know each other in real life i call this so called love as inf actuation. So by what i have explained so far i don't need to say if i trust people from internet or not. I advice you people also to maintain some distance when it comes to personal stuff.

I dont think i could truely trust someone on the internet unless i know them or if i met them in person because alot of people on the internet actually do lie about their age and alot of other things.i dont but alot of people do.

There are people who we do appreciate here and consider as friends and the trust that I put here I can say, is more different from the trust that I give to my real friends. I don't say that they are not that trust-worthy, but the feeling we have to someone we know personally is totally different to peopl whom we knew from thousand miles away from us. I do have some people that I trust here, and I am proud that they are still with me right from the time that I was starting here.

Every time I meet someone on the internet, I always say to myself that I need to be careful, because you can never know who is talking to you on the other site. The problem with the internet is that anyone can be anyone. I can pretend to be the prsident of the United States if I want, and some people probably will believe me.

I got the chance to know a few online friends here at mylot. We do exchange private messages and email add. There is only one whom I felt more comfortable to talk to. We helped and supported each other and have at least share a little of ourselves. I am very cautious in giving too much details about my life though. Since we're both a complete virtual faceless friends. If he share a thing or two to me, I will use my deep intuition to assimilate whether he is telling the truth or not. :)

I have using the internet for about 8 years or so now and have made many friends over the years in this forum of communication. I have had good and bad experiences with people but can honestly say I've never had a relationship with someone where being in love with me or him came into the friendship. I know many others though who have had their hearts broken this way and I feel bad for people who've gone through this but also want to bang their heads and tell them not to be so trusting with people. I know a guy who was "dating" a girl he met in a chat room. He was British and she was American and she sent him photos of herself and they spoke on the phone. When he eventually went out there to meet her, he found that she was years older than she had initially told him and the photos were of someone else and he got quite a shock. He was in love with someone's photo and online personality, except she was 15 years older and not at all attractive (some might say serves him right for being so into just looks) - but if you imagine the person you're falling in love with looks one way and they turn out to look completely different I can imagine it would be quite a shock, mostly because of the lies and broken trust. I would advise anyone who falls in love over the net to be very careful about believing what people say. There are married people on the net in chat rooms looking for a bit of fun, pretending to be single and available, there are dirty old men trying to entice young girls or even boys to give out their address and commit horrible unthinkable crimes. Just be careful always. Whenever I've met a friend from the internet in the past, it's been with a group of friends together when I met them for the first time and in a public place. Remember your safety is the most important thing, better to have your heart broken over the net than risk any physical harm coming to you by meeting a dodgy person out to hurt you. x

Hello mssnow!(",) How you doing?(",) Its really hard to say that you trust them completely. I really don't care if friends in the internet tell me lies or honest things because for me, what's important is ME being honest to them. They have to earn my trust before I can give it. I really don't give my trust to someone whom I didn't know personally.(",)

I enjoy this site because I do have some privacy and have made some good friends. But sometimes it's hard to trust people when they are standing right in front of you, and I much less likely to trust someone that I know only from the Internet. There are too many dangerous people out there. On the other hand I have a couple of friends who did meet people over the Internet and then met and then married. They have both been happily married for almost 2 years. I'm just not one that could do it.

I an trust some of them, especially some of them in mylot, they are really my good friends, but most of the time, I think we cannot trust those people on the net ,especially in those chatrooms,guys are likely to lie on womem to try to make friends with them or to meet them in person, and then...... Even they are married, they can still tell the women they are singe and women have no chance to know whether it is a truth or not...

i dont know i have just seen yhe movie ANTITRUST so i dont trust on net pals

no way i wouldnt.nowadays it is difficult to understand and judge a person whom you think you know very well itself.it would be a disaster to trust someone on the internet.there are so many people out there waiting to take a chance at you and rip you off and take advantage of you.this has become a sick world and i wouldnt take my chances on the internet.i would just advice people to take care.you may never know how things can go on the internet so take care.

i have made some internet friends over the months but i am not sure whether i would trust them until i met them in person. dont forget it could be anyone sitting behind the computer as you said and we have gotta be careful. i trust a few friends on mylot as i know a good bit about them

I think that while its true, you can be anything you want to be on the internet, you most likely wouldnt be able to carry on that false image very long. There are many people here that I trust to be just who they say they are(you included). In my case I think there times that I share more here than I would to someone that I met in real life just because I will most likely never meet them in person. You can ussually get a pretty good idea who someome is by reading their post and their profile.

I aggree with you 100% on this. I am grateful to have and love my internet friends very much, but until you have actually met someone you can't really base an opinion of them. People on the internet can be anyone they want to be.

I try to trust anyone I can, it's just my personality. Doing this though I have been scammed sometimes, and I have started to 'tighten' up who I trust on the internet. Sometimes it's just like friends in real life, before you really are able to trust them you need to get to know them more and that just builds up the trust factor.