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[b]Friendship on SW?[/b]

I have met some great people on this place and I don't really believe that SW is full of idiots (or insolent peasants as I have called you many times before). But...to the "witty" males that have tried to befriend me...all of you with your poetry and eclectic music taste and long conversations about life and what's real and what's not...I do admire your mind. And talking to me about how you admired mine was definitely flattering. But did my mind stop being "admirable" once you realised I didn't want to be more "intimate"? Why spend hours talking to this "special friend" of yours if she's not that special after all? Or even a friend...? I hate it when people make me feel so special only to find out that they've been trying to get something from me and then watch them leave, complimenting and worshipping their new "victim". If friendship is not what you're really looking for then, please, take all your beautiful lies and leave. Why do I have to go through periods of anger and self - doubt just because you're not strong enough to be clear about what you really want and who you really are? And I know that I "shouldn't care about strangers on the internet" and I should probably "go get a life" but I find it stupid to pretend I don't care when I clearly spend most of my time on here.
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firefall · 61-69, M
Well put. It must feel horrible, that realisation (one of the merciful escapes of being an old male, there's not much of anything that anyone wants from you, at least not enough to be worth trying to manipulate you).

It also sounds like they're all following a script?

(as for 'not caring about strangers on the internet' and 'go get a life', that stuff always struck me as profoundly stupid and reality-denying .. life on the internet is still life, it's still people you're talking to: you don't have to be able to touch someone to make them real. At least, until they get AI that can pass the Turing test)
SW-User
@firefall: Exactly!! Internet is still life and I can't help developing feelings. I guess people on here show who they really are after all.
firefall · 61-69, M
@IDidNotFart: Eventually, yeah, tho - just like flesh-life, some ppl are adept at false fronts
Crazytxtink · 51-55, F
@IDidNotFart: gawd this is the truth. True colors always come out. Like you I trust that whomever I'm chatting with is being real. Yet they are not. I do get attached I can't help it. It's just who I am. Yet for some reason people on here think that the other person on the other side of the screen has no feelings. Sorry for babbling but I have been hurt so badly this just triggers emotions from me. Thank you for being real and speaking your mind... 💕