Do you think some people here make up sob stories for attention?

The "interesting" part to a lot of thoughts like this is that first of all, online the group of people you're talking about isn't generally "Everybody in the local town" or "Few randomly sampled individuals". No, you get everybody in the whole world participating, so your questions should be... would anybody in the world do that?

And we know they indeed do, there have been high profile cases where people have killed their own children to get social media attention (Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy), for example.

Secondly, yeah, people with Munchausen Syndrome or similar issues will obviously be the most popular and visible people around. So there's actually a good chance several of the "why does this always happen to me" people we know online do just that.

The sad part is you just don't know, there's practically no way to tell a fake sob story from a real one. If this so-called "intuition" worked, there'd be practically no scams or confidence-tricks played. Unfortunately, it gets bit overwhelming and simply impossible to treat everything as life and death real tragedy, along with shades of "You save everyone, who saves you?", so eventually you get jaded and numbed to it. (Not, however, as much as those folks going around blabbing about how you have to ALWAYS put yourself first etc.)

Yup. I think I have fallen for some, and then on reading more of their profile, change my mind as to the validity of their tale. That's why God invented Mute and Block...

Anything is possible

Absolutely

Some of em

I never thought of that.

Begs the question.... why ?

I came here bc I wanted answers to a serious question I had which come to think of it I haven’t even asked yet lol!

yep, whether it's their form of a coping mechanism, or they're just too self absorbed to understand what real troubles are...🤔

Sadly, yes. It takes away from those who really are having troubles.

It's quite the dramatic place.

Yes

Yes

Well it is optimistic if only some of ppl do it