cyber identities

It amazes me how someone can be so two-faced using the internet.

I'm not talking about people who magically grow a pair of balls and decide to smack talk you on the internet. I'm talking about the people who get accounts on social websites and act like a completely different person from who you thought they were.

They take on this completely opposite persona from who you thought you knew.
How are you supposed to know who they are?

Are they really the person you know, who just seem to be bored with their own lives, so they make up this fake existence to entertain themselves?

Or are they really the person they are online, not under the pressure of peers, teachers, friends, family, etc?

I tried to do this. I made an account on some social site. I was exactly how I am in real life.

And I hated it.

Not the being me part. I love being myself. Not some poser decieving the people I care about.

There was only one person that actually seemed normal on there. Sure, he was a little weird, but I could actually have a conversation with him.

No one else would talk to me how I wanted them to, or actually have intelligent conversations. It was ridiculous. I deleted it and resumed talking to the people I actually care about and who actually care about me.

One of the problems with social sites is people pretty much base you off of how you look. The "hotter" "cuter" "sexier" you look, the more people will talk to you. And based off of that, you can't even start to have a decent conversation.

Maybe people just want attention. I don't know.

I just don't understand the point in acting like someone else.

If other people can't even tell who you are, how are you supposed to?