Internet: Pro & Cons
The very first time I went online was in 1996. Wow, more than 10 years ago. It sounds crazy now. Ever since, the internet grew exponentially and users found out it was very nice to have ‘friends’ from all over the world, people you may never meet for real, but you could “talk to” online, exchange experiences, thoughts. And I am writing a so-called ‘blog’, one of the most recent internet creations. We can do a lot of things online, researches about anything, find jobs, whatever. We can also do many bad things, like scams or criminal actions. Then we can also be very stupid, in my opinion, and pretend to be someone we are not. This mostly happen to worldwide famous people. It’s no fun pretending to be a locally famous person. If fame must be, worldwide fame will be.
Lucky me, I never had someone posing as me, as I am obviously not worldwide famous. Ah no, I had an imposer once. It didn’t last long, though. I think this person (something tells me she was a she) was probably jealous of a real friend of mines. Guess why… But anyway, one day we both went online at the same time so, it was pretty easy for my friend to figure out she wasn’t me.
What I really don’t understand is why doing it? I mean, sooner or later the truth will come out. So why pretending to be someone we are not? I’m not bipolar and I don’t want to be worldwide famous, thus I don’t have any reason to act like I’m Cindy Crawford or whoever comes to my mind.
This whole problem makes me think that probably each and every one of us secretly dreams of being famous someday, on various degrees of course. Yes, why not. Someday I might be a famous veterinarian. Who knows? And then I’ll have other people pretending to be me? Woo hoo, that’s so cool!
Well, you really have to have serious issues to want to pose as a veterinarian. We don’t get red carpets and stuff, you know. But what I’m trying to say is that, regardless of the reason of my success, if I was famous, I would love to still be able to talk to people or do some groceries shopping without being assaulted for an autograph or a picture. And I would love to still be able to leave a message on a forum or message board online, signing with my real name without people thinking I’m an imposer.
Internet made life a lot easier in many ways, but now we have to watch ourselves from scams and imposters online too. We hadn’t enough of that in real life, right?
