What’s your system for knowing what is real and what is just fantasy on here?

@lovelywarpedlemon all? But isn’t how the way I feel after reading what someone wrote, real?

@Ghostinthemachine yeah i just treat it like it could be anyone, i pretty much treat everyone as if i imagined them up in my own mind, lol. i know that everyone has their own eyes in any situation as well, so even a first account of something, someone trying to being real, is just a matter of perspective. but that's how i treat it so i don't get too attached to anyone/anything. like... i also know that anyone here could be in disguise, getting their laughs. and i'm pretty sure i've fallen for their joke once or twice. so i just don't PM or anything very much anymore, doesn't seem worth it to me anymore, sadly. though i met 2 ppl IRL from EP and 1 from SW, my hopes for meeting a real friend/partner here now have fully diminished.

@lovelywarpedlemon I suppose it depends on what our expectations are. I don’t really have any, other than honesty, and that is usually the first to be lost.
I’m wiser than I used to be, but I still have faith in people being real, or wanting to. If I didn’t, I wouldn’t be here, there would be no point for me