who thinks that most people on the computer using sites like this are to shy to talk to people in person?
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I don't know that the people are necessarily shy. I think that it is easier to ask and answer questions on Answers because I am not emotionally connected to the other people. When you know someone, your emotions can sometimes cloud the way that you tend to look at circumstances. It is nice in a sense that the receiver of your answer is unable to argue back when you say something that is right on target!
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It's sad because there are idiotic people out there who create websites like this. :( Just dont let it bother you because it's obvious that these people have no social life to be able to spend lots of time doing the site...
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Yahoo Answers is probably not the place to get in touch with the most caring, understanding and gentle people. It is a site for the young, for the bored, for the oversexed and the insomniacs. \nI try not to be too sarcastic in my answers but I have noticed I do fail - and while I am not proud of this, I also believe the questions are to be blamed sometimes. Quite some of the postings are completely unbelievable. \nI will easily admit that there are a lot of horrible postings in both questions and answers, but that always seems to happen in such online groups. I guess the best way still to deal with it is to ingnore it. What else can you do?
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I honestly do not place any faith on meeting people in ANY chat room at all. I just basically hardly ever go to a chat room. because some people will be, you know, like you described them, there will ALWAYS be them hanging out in every chat room on the net, so you never know who you are really chatting with and the only way to find out SUCKS because that means getting more personal with them . . and then it's too late if they are a perv.\n\nYou know, I really think there is a better chance of meeting a nice person just browsing books at a popular bookstore, or a small cafe or cafe concert or even StarBucks for that matter.
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IT SEEMS THAT ANYONE WHO SPENDS ALL DAY ON LINE NEEDS TO GET A LIFE.ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, ARE SAVED FROM A LONELY LIFE BY GOING ON LINE. I 'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ONES WHO PREY ON YOUNG CHILDREN. I HOPE THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM SOON.\nI GUESS YOU AND I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO DURING THE COURSE OF A DAY AND,USE OUR TIME WISELY. MAYBE SOMEDAY WE WILL BE SPENDING MORE TIME ON THE FASCINATING WORLD OF THE INTERNET.
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I have no clue.  There is a mix of people on the net and some feel that since they are behind a computer screen they can be anything that they want. Just like my space.  I'm not saying everyone on the net is a bad person but it is too hard to weed out the good from the bad.  my opinion is take everything everyone says lightly and don't trust anyone. They don't know you and you don't know them so who cares what they think.
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Roughly 90% of the people I would call friends are people I met online. It might have to do with my line of work. I'm a website developer.
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I'm blunt, honest, open and sometimes sarcastic on here and in real life, however I always get my point across in a respectful manner. Of course it's so easy for kids to act all big and bad on here because they can remain anonymous and hide behind their computer screens. 9 times out of 10 they wont pull that immature crap in real life. I've seen some pretty ignorant "adults" on here too. :-&#92;
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it would be nice, but people that spend a lot of time online seem to prefer to talk to the people they already know, and find everyone else to be "annoying" especially if you "out-funny" them or something else really childish.
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Don't know...maybe we are just lonely ppl with little to do and this is our way to communicate and connect with others. \n\nMost of the time the people on here are pleasant, funny, caring and real with us and I for one appreciate that. \n\n:-)
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Because they feel alone. We have been told over and over that we are not good enough. The anonymity provided by the Internet and chat lines makes us feel safe enough to talk to strangers. It make us feel good.
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I think it actually helps.  The internet gives us many opportunities to get to know somebody without having a clue what they look like, or any other things about them. When you get to know somebody this way, you really appreciate them more.  There is nothing you can judge them by. You get to know the real person.  I have met many different people online from different places in the world.  A lot of it depends on how you utilize the internet. I love to help people, so I enjoy answering questions on here that might make a difference in somebody's life.  Some people come on here just to bash and insult others. It's all about each individual person and how they choose to use the internet. :)
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Unfortunately, as much as this type of forum is helpful, people feel comfortable to use it to vent their frustrations because it is anonymous and people know that they can get away with being rude, when normally, they would never be this way in a face to face conversation.  People who are rude for the sake of being rude on the Internet are cowards because they are aware that there are no ramifications for their actions.
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people may not be true to their details on the internet. I myself haven't beem truthful many a time and so did many of my contacts who usually chat to me...well, its all in the game. we get to have some expectations and people expect to project themselves in a very highly manner... so when you tend to gain friends without having to show your true self.. you tend to extend the boundaries of your abilities to something which you may not actually be capable of ! so.. ultimately, internet is strange place and you must be lucky if you could find a soul-mate!!!
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Being very suspicious by nature, I tend to believe that a possible reason why people in the chat room would ask whether you're new to chat rooms in general or to a particular forum is that you could be easy prey for a quick trick.\nOR simply it could be a person in the chatroom trying to spark a conversation with another person in the forum
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It has in the past. You just can't wait to get to 'talk' to them next, it's great fun and you get nervous but not too nervous.\n\nHave fun, but just be careful, okay!\n\nSome people are as nice as they seem online. Some aren't. You never know.
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my opinion:\n\nmyspace is safe.\nbut a lot of people give out too much information.  on there pages they put little hints for others to find them.  \ni DO NOT let someone be my friend unless i know them in real life.  that includes people who go to my school, but don't talk to me.  why should i add a bunch of people and call them my friends?  whats the point?  doesn't make me any cooler.\nparents told us to not talk to strangers, why does that change when your online?