CyberSpace and Trust

Canada
April 15, 2007 6:49pm CST
How much do you really trust people on the internet? You have no idea if they're lying too you or not. Do you trust people you meet in chatrooms and online forums? Do you think E-Love is possible?
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8 responses
@Chryssi (828)
• United States
20 Apr 07
First of all, welcome to myLot! Secondly, I have a hard time trusting people in the real world, and it's so much harder trusting people online. It takes a lot to be my friend, as I'm very picky, but I do have a couple of friends that I trust, though. About E-Love. Yes, it's very possible. Also very probable, as people get to know each other more and more.
• China
20 Apr 07
no,I think that is impossible.
@mansha (6298)
• India
18 Apr 07
I nevrr used to trust anyone I met online but then i joined mylot and started making friends and some really good ones. But recently one of them scammed me now I am again distrustful and do not want to trust. then I think one's deed should not deter me from trustin other friends. I wish I had never met that person ever.
@tatzkie (644)
• Philippines
16 Apr 07
it is imperative not to trust easily. may i be in the cyberworld or in real life. Trust is so hard to find and develop but it can easily be broken. But i dont close my doors to people in the cyberworld. I know there are real people who are honest and trustworthy in this world. It just about being careful of who to trust.
@mahmah (436)
• United States
18 Apr 07
I have a really hard time trusting people in the "real" world so online is so much worse. There are some people that I talk to on the regular basis. A couple of them I might consider friends. But then again, I really don't use the internet to meet people, for the most part. I did join mylot in order to meet some like minded people so that I could stop thinking that I was the only person on the planet that feel the way I do. I also joined mylot to pretty much babble on about things that I find interesting and of course the spare change I get as a reward. :) For me I don't believe that E-Love is possible. But this is my own personal opinion. I have run into so many fake people that I just don't even want to think about trying to find a mate. I have to say though my friend's mother met her current boyfriend online and they have been living together for I think 4 years now and he is the best thing that ever happened to her. So I have to say that for the right person-elove is possible. :)
• Malaysia
18 Apr 07
maybe for sometimes.
@ricknkae (1721)
• United States
16 Apr 07
I trust some people and not others ... on mylot for instance, I have been around a few friends that I consider reliable ... the start rating is also a good indicator I usually don't trust people on other forums though About E-love ... It depends on what you call e-love I guess... but if you mean can you fall in love with someone you met online and meet and so on ... then I would say yes because that is exactly how I met my husband I met him online in a chatroom ... first we were friends, then a little more ... then we decided to meet and it was there!!! Now we are married, got a little one and as happy as we could be!!!
@naty1941 (2336)
• United States
16 Apr 07
I have made two good male friends and one female friend on the internet. Outside of that I don't trust anyone. My 2 male friends are outside the USA and my female friend lives in the states. I have been invited to go out on dates with men in California where I reside and I always decline. I tell them after I get to know them better on the internet we can meet somewhere and my daughter of 43 will chaperone. The internet is a great way to meet people but one must be very careful as there are some weirdos out there.