ShadowKill
01-29-2001, 03:13
I came upon this while i was viewing my tribes2 forums and i thought this was a cool post that somone made. And after last night talking to someone in the tourny for a lil while i noticed that I do not agree totally with this guys view I did nor realize it but damn i have told you guys alot about myself the person i was talking to last night knew were my Ex-girl friend lived http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif to most of the things about me I found it kind of nice(And scary http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif to know someone actully reads what i say.
ANY WAY here is the post i found:
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Can you trust your teammates? This is a question I am sure a lot of you ask yourselves, but are you asking it in the right context? Sure, you can trust your team mate to do his/her job on the field or to show up for practices and maybe even add something special to the team. But a lot more is shared between team mates than just a game. Many times intimate details of a persons lives are given out to the people you consider friends online. Maybe you have never met in real life, maybe you have, but none the less, you have a strange bond with some people online.
In my personal experience I have quite a few people online that I consider friends. Some I have met in real life and others I have never seen before, but they all get the same treatment. I have shared information about my career, my schooling, my money troubles, my family issues and even my love life with people I have known for over 2 years now. How can you be sure you can trust these people with this information or that the information they give to you is honest and accurate? The answer is, you can't.
All of these questions came about quite recently when I found out that one of my old team mates, [Inq]LadyJade, was lying to everyone in Inquisition for over a fourteen month period. Many parts of Inq's lives are shared between the team. From many conversations, we found out a lot about LadyJade's life. That she was 17, an avid gamer, living in the midwest and every once in a while, some issue would come up that we would all discuss the options for. All in all, we were like a large, distant family. And then the day came when Jade was trying to get money for tuition and would have to sell her computer. Well rather than have that happen, many of the members chipped in and threw together their old parts to give Jade something that she could sell rather than her own system. Everything from network cards to CDRW's were sent. And all was happy again.
And that brings us to the present. Today, one of my old friends called LadyJade on the phone to see how things were going. He had never called before, but had the phone number. The parents picked up. He asked for Des (LJ's name), they said "Who?" and he explained who he was looking for. They explained that they had no daughters, but they did have a son who played Tribes often. And then the pieces fell together. LadyJade had for the past year and 2 months deceived everyone in the Tribes community into believing that he was a girl. The tuition? Fake. He just wanted money. LadyJade was even supposed to appear in the next Battle of the Sexes match, none of his team mates knew.... LadyJade is a man.
I was awe struck. How could I be lied to so easily? How could everyone fall under this ruse and not figure anything out? And then it hit me. We never really know who we are talking to when we begin our trek into the online universe. We share intimate moments of our lives with complete and total strangers. Don't get me wrong, I have met quite a few of the people behind the names and am friends with most. I am in no way saying that you should not share your lives with online friends, I am just stating that you should beware lest you begin talking to "Barbie" who is really Bob, a 45 year old inmate on the prison library computers.
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THE VIEWS EXPRESED IN THIS POST ARE NOT MY VIEW http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif just to let you know always got to have a desclaimer
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Clan Shades
Shades (http://www.geocities.com/shadesofshogun/index.html)
You are already dead you just don't know it yet!!
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ANY WAY here is the post i found:
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Can you trust your teammates? This is a question I am sure a lot of you ask yourselves, but are you asking it in the right context? Sure, you can trust your team mate to do his/her job on the field or to show up for practices and maybe even add something special to the team. But a lot more is shared between team mates than just a game. Many times intimate details of a persons lives are given out to the people you consider friends online. Maybe you have never met in real life, maybe you have, but none the less, you have a strange bond with some people online.
In my personal experience I have quite a few people online that I consider friends. Some I have met in real life and others I have never seen before, but they all get the same treatment. I have shared information about my career, my schooling, my money troubles, my family issues and even my love life with people I have known for over 2 years now. How can you be sure you can trust these people with this information or that the information they give to you is honest and accurate? The answer is, you can't.
All of these questions came about quite recently when I found out that one of my old team mates, [Inq]LadyJade, was lying to everyone in Inquisition for over a fourteen month period. Many parts of Inq's lives are shared between the team. From many conversations, we found out a lot about LadyJade's life. That she was 17, an avid gamer, living in the midwest and every once in a while, some issue would come up that we would all discuss the options for. All in all, we were like a large, distant family. And then the day came when Jade was trying to get money for tuition and would have to sell her computer. Well rather than have that happen, many of the members chipped in and threw together their old parts to give Jade something that she could sell rather than her own system. Everything from network cards to CDRW's were sent. And all was happy again.
And that brings us to the present. Today, one of my old friends called LadyJade on the phone to see how things were going. He had never called before, but had the phone number. The parents picked up. He asked for Des (LJ's name), they said "Who?" and he explained who he was looking for. They explained that they had no daughters, but they did have a son who played Tribes often. And then the pieces fell together. LadyJade had for the past year and 2 months deceived everyone in the Tribes community into believing that he was a girl. The tuition? Fake. He just wanted money. LadyJade was even supposed to appear in the next Battle of the Sexes match, none of his team mates knew.... LadyJade is a man.
I was awe struck. How could I be lied to so easily? How could everyone fall under this ruse and not figure anything out? And then it hit me. We never really know who we are talking to when we begin our trek into the online universe. We share intimate moments of our lives with complete and total strangers. Don't get me wrong, I have met quite a few of the people behind the names and am friends with most. I am in no way saying that you should not share your lives with online friends, I am just stating that you should beware lest you begin talking to "Barbie" who is really Bob, a 45 year old inmate on the prison library computers.
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THE VIEWS EXPRESED IN THIS POST ARE NOT MY VIEW http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif just to let you know always got to have a desclaimer
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Clan Shades
Shades (http://www.geocities.com/shadesofshogun/index.html)
You are already dead you just don't know it yet!!
http://www.geocities.com/peacekeeper316/me.jpg