One reason I would lie to someone in an online setting is if I were trying to keep myself from hurting their feelings, because, in most cases, people you talk to online are still people. I guess another reason I would lie is to use it as a defense mechanism, or to keep people from knowing who you really are. Example: people lie and make themselves sound better than they really are to gain acceptance in other places if they can't get it in real life or people lie and don't let people know who they really are in case they're paranoid about stalkers or people they know in real life finding out what they say or do online.
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Date: 2005-06-14 07:32 pm (UTC)That's all I can think of right now.