{"id":92,"date":"2002-06-03T03:09:52","date_gmt":"2002-06-02T22:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/92"},"modified":"2002-06-03T03:09:52","modified_gmt":"2002-06-02T22:09:52","slug":"good-grief-if-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/archives\/92","title":{"rendered":"Good grief. If it’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good grief. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. This is a sordid mess<\/a> of a poor guy who was completely duped by someone who claimed to be dying of cancer. In the last 10 years that I’ve been around the internet, I’ve seen:<\/p>\n

? a man who created a fictitious wife for himself
\n? a few guys pretending to be girls and having ‘mudsex’ with hapless guys
\n? a guy who pretended to be a girl who eventually faked suicide
\n? a pregnancy newsgroup troll who pretended to die from childbirth complications
\n? a pregnancy newsgroup troll who pretended her child died from complications
\n? a woman pretending to be a man who had a cyber-romance with an unknowing woman<\/p>\n

My oh my, the list goes on. <\/p>\n

And there always has to be drama, conflict, a soap opera. I’ve seen 2 bigass uproars on 2 different webrings lately and I find myself tuning in for today’s helping of pain. Sorry to be so crass, because I know I’m feeding on someone else’s anguish, but it’s like slowing down to watch a car wreck. I worry about being so dehumanized that I don’t care enough about my fellow man, I worry about the internet turning us all into automatons, but then I remember the case in NYC in the sixties where a woman was screaming for help as she was being killed and none of her neighbors did anything because they “didn’t want to get involved”.<\/p>\n

Sorry to be such a downer tonight. It’s not like I’m in a bad mood or anything. Just ponderous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good grief. If it’s not one thing, it’s another. This is a sordid mess of a poor guy who was completely duped by someone who claimed to be dying of cancer. In the last 10 years that I’ve been around the internet, I’ve seen: ? a man who created a fictitious wife for himself ? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/addlepated.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}