Zonie63
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Joined: 4/25/2011 From: The Old Pueblo Status: offline
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What is "fake"? What is "real"? Is it possible that I am real, while everyone else is fake? Or perhaps everyone else is real, but I am fake. But if I was fake, would I realize it? Or would it be like The Twilight Zone episode where the mannequin gets a month to live as a real person and forgets that she ever was a mannequin? Seriously, though, I've seen a lot of people talk about fakes here, but I'm never quite sure how it manifests itself. I generally assume that there's a live human being on the other end of an account here, but there's always a chance they're not who they claim to be. It happens just about everywhere, probably on any site where large numbers of people have accounts and interact with each other. I think Obi-Wan said it best when he described the internet: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."
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