Am I a little naive because I’m disappointed the guilty person was a fellow blogger? Absolutely. I guess I just expect a little more. Lying is one thing; stalking and stealing another person’s identity for five years is just grossly pathetic.

People read what YOU write because it’s informative, well written, well put together, and sometimes even touching. There are many articles that you’ve written that by the end of it I’m flabbergasted, and immediately link them to friends I know would also feel the same. You’re just good at what you do here. They don’t read your blog to follow your personal life.

As has been said beforehand by a number of different people, the information regarding the video game was positive, and proven so by the game itself. The rest of it should be taken at what it is… mindless text.

I’m sorry but it’s true. Unless you know the person whose content you are reading face to face, there is no possible way to develop trust. Not through text. Never, no matter how much the internet, or technology advances.

Bear in mind this is totally just my opinion, and I welcome flames just as much as I welcome positive conversation on the topic. I strongly believe however, that anything you find on the internet that can’t be proven with facts you are aware of yourself outside of what you’ve read there, are going to be a lie unless proven factual. Guilty until proven innocent, if you will. You’re fooling yourselves if you automatically assume otherwise.

The difference between this blog and the one that is so controversial is that people come here to read your opinion, your strategies, your banter, etc… and they enjoy it.. at least I do… because sometimes it’s enlightening (see post about being the best healer that used the golf reference) and sometimes it’s downright touching (see recent post about social aspects of wow). The complete opposite can be said about the other blog in question. People went there for the strategy… but also for the pictures.. because children are fickle and shallow people… I’m sorry but it’s true… at least SOME of them went for the pictures. It is not the lies that hold this blog controversy in such high attention, the internet IS lies. It’s the disappointment about photographs.

Get over it. Move on people.

The Holy Light has a post that includes the full text of the (now-deleted) Catharsis post
http://theholylight.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/united-states-of-ferraro/

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From a blogger perspective, however. I know it’s a different person. But it still does reflect on all of us. It has an impact on bloggers because hey, if you can’t trust what this blogger is saying, who’s to say that the other bloggers aren’t authentic? I don’t know. I take things too personally sometimes.

I think people who assume that humans are naturally positive, and do-gooding have missed what’s been going on in society as of late.. and by ‘as of late’ what I really mean is in the last… 50 or more years. Your government lies to you. Your friends lie to you, your parents lie to you, and it’s possible that your significant other(s) also lie to you.

I understand the ‘impact’ this revelation has on the blogging community, but to be honest, blogs should be about the content, and not the photographs and personal information that may or may not be available.

As I wrote beforehand, the only reason there is so much interest in this incident is because of the simple fact that there are a lot of male players who are feeling disgusted with themselves for swooning over pictures of a young woman they think is attractive, only to be disappointed because the words they have been following religiously with the thought that this ‘woman’ is posting them and she’s amazing looking, was really posted by.. a man? Maybe a woman they find less attractive? Whatever. Zip your pants up, go clean the cheetos stains, come back.. and play the game for the game…. please…. we could use more people interested in the game. and less people interested in the cybering… I get enough horrifying whispers when people hear me on vent about how sexy I sound to want to buy a voice manipulator for my microphone.. really… just… lay off.

I am who I am. I have better things to do in acting someone that I am not. I don’t make too many personal comments in my blog, but anything I make, I make as myself. Its easier on the memory

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Yes, Ferarro’s blog was a good source of paladin information and guides, and regardless of the truth, that won’t change. But maybe I’m just a little too naive to assume people who divulge so many details of their lives would actually be telling the truth?

Not to mention, it’s deeply disturbing that he/she/whatever felt compelled to pretend at being someone else. I can understand keeping personal details on the internet to a minimum, but when someone pretends to be someone else, I tend to believe she/he has some severe character growth to work on. I find it hard to respect any adult who can’t accept his/herself fully, the bad with the good.

My mind’s still reeling over this all. If you don’t trust people on the internet with your identity, fine, but don’t stalk some poor innocent person and pretend his/her life is your own. That’s just ridiculously sad.