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What Are The Implications

abide

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http://www.aznewsdesk.com/over-80-million-facebook-accounts-are-fake

This information highlights the deception that the Internet has on people.
If these accounts are fake, it is reasonable to assume that there are people who are on networking sites who are not who they claim to be.

No one knows who is behind a computer screen. They may post a photo but that does not prove anything. This does not auger well for dating. A person can claim to be someone when in fact they are someone else. With the mentally ill in our society, we can never know the real facts concerning a person. It is hard enough trying to understand someone we might have met in church, school etc. But how are we to know the "real person" who is behind a computer screen saying those things that presumably we want to read. I have said on another Christian site and will repeat that the INTERNET IS THE PERFECT ENVIRONMENT FOR DECEPTION.
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The bible states that deception will be the hallmark of the end time. With the Internet I am sure many will continue to be deceived. This raises another point and that is information that is purported to be true when we check various websites. This modern technology is good, but with various hi tech computer graphics we may have to be cautious. I am amazed at the personal information that people give on these networking sites.

My philosophy is if something seems to good to be true perhaps it is.

I have always been very observant, I have never been the one to take things at face value. I remember on a dating site, this man stated he was a member of the SDA church and CLAIMED that he was interested in me. At one point he wanted me to give up my job and come to the USA. There was something suspicious about his photo. He sent me a card and strangely enough, he mentioned something in the card which caused me to suspect that he is gay. Since then he has gone to another state living. I believe we can

I know there may be people on these sites who work for national security, and other agencies that may have to hide their photo and refrain from making certain statements. They may have to hide their identity but I believe that caution is the keyword.
 
I'd tend to agree with the caution you have advised. The internet is an absolutely amazing tool for meeting people, and for keeping in touch with people you already know. However, there needs to be a generous helping of human contact at some point early in the relationship. Until that time, the person is a stranger regardless of how long someone has "known" them online.

I've met a couple really good friends from online, but also a couple of really freaky people. Fortunately, lunch in a shopping mall half an hour from my house is a fairly safe venue to assess which category they belong to :P
 
Let me tell you, even if the picture, the age, the phone number and every thing else they give you are correct, most times they still aren't truthful. The devil is in the details.
 
I'd tend to agree with the caution you have advised. The internet is an absolutely amazing tool for meeting people, and for keeping in touch with people you already know. However, there needs to be a generous helping of human contact at some point early in the relationship. Until that time, the person is a stranger regardless of how long someone has "known" them online.

I've met a couple really good friends from online, but also a couple of really freaky people. Fortunately, lunch in a shopping mall half an hour from my house is a fairly safe venue to assess which category they belong to :P

We cannot be too careful.
 
We cannot be too careful.

Well, we could hide in our houses with a shotgun aimed at the door, cowering in terror at the prospect of some psychopath with four arms and a chainsaw breaking down the door... so yeah, maybe we CAN be too careful.
 
And let's be honest, a person you see everyday, a coworker, even a friend could be deceiving you just as much as a person online.

It's a trite phrase, I know, but we all wear masks. I don't think there's any more deception these days than there was before. Depends on if you count things like scam-spam and not just people directly communicating with someone over the net.
 
And let's be honest, a person you see everyday, a coworker, even a friend could be deceiving you just as much as a person online.

It's a trite phrase, I know, but we all wear masks. I don't think there's any more deception these days than there was before. Depends on if you count things like scam-spam and not just people directly communicating with someone over the net.


That proves my point, that if people we work with can deceive us, it goes to reason that online deception which is basically an "unknown" source is more devious.
 
It's been my experience that women I meet online, usually enjoy some kind of activity that there is a 12 step program of recovery for.

For some reason they never mention that in their profiles.
 
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