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Faust76 · 46-50, M
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.)
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.)