Georgina, one of my closest online friends, has created a fanlisting for me. 
It sounds weird and conceited to say, but if you are a fan of me, please feel free to join.
Today in my dad’s car on the way to school, we were listening to an REO Speedwagon album and one of the songs that came on said something about lying. My dad started talking about lying and said some stuff that I either zoned out or just can’t remember.
I used to lie a lot when I was younger. When I was home-schooled in sixth and seventh grade, my mom would drop me off at home around noon after I finished figure skating before she left for work for the afternoon. At that point, I was expected to work on my schoolwork after I ate lunch. Instead, I would watch TV until about 2:45pm. Then I would start my work just so it would look like I had been working when my mom got home at three. There wasn’t even anything good on TV; I would just watch preschool shows all afternoon. 
I would usually finish my work around five or six anyway, but I would always tell my mom that I had started right after she left. I would also lie to her about what work I had completed and what I hadn’t. On a few occasions I ended up hiding away in my room to finish some history questions while my mom was preparing my work to be mailed out. I think she knew about that, but she didn’t care as long as I got it done.
I did a ridiculous amount of lying back then. I got so used to it that it was like a daily routine to me and it didn’t phase my conscience one bit. I rarely ever lie now, except for the little white lie here and there, and I feel bad telling them. I don’t know what brought about this change, but I know I’m a better person because of it. It actually feels great to know that I am a much more honest person now than I used to be. I wish everyone were more honest. Honesty is one of the qualities I have come to value most in a person.
As much as I used to lie when I was younger, I never lied about my existence. I understand people using aliases online for privacy issues or whatever. That makes sense to me. Today though I found out about a girl online who I have reason to believe is masquerading as a completely different person, rather than simply using an alias. She seems to be pretending to be not only herself but another girl as well. I may be completely wrong, but with what I know at the moment I strongly suspect that is the case. Perhaps you will join me in asking, “what the heck?”
This may not be true for everyone, but I know that many people who blog do it at least on some subconscious level to make friends. I have mentioned in previous blogs that I love how blogging has connected me with so many people worldwide. Well I think we can all agree that friendship, at least the strongly bonded variety, is based heavily on trust. How can we trust each other if we lie to each other? If this girl is truly lying about who she is, she will never be able to make any true friends through her website. Even if her online friends never find out about her lies, they will still not be her true friends because they will not know who she truly is.
Creating a new name for yourself online is infinitely different from creating an entirely new persona.
I have my camera and his crazy stocking with me right now! I might not get around to putting it up… but, you know, MAYBE. ;P
I don’t know why I get so many sties. :/ I can’t remember if my optometrist said something about it being linked with diabetes or not… but I don’t think so.
That’s sweet that she made a fanlisting. I think it’s weird to make fanlistings of people, though… I guess I’m not really interested in fanlistings in general. XD
OMG, I was just reading an article about identity and privacy and such (in Japanese online culture, but still) that I Stumbled[Upon]! How strange.
Yay! You plugged the fanlisting! I plugged it on my recent blog and a couple of people joined after seeing it. Maybe they’ll be more inclined to join because you plugged it.
When I was younger I think I must have lied a lot, but not as much as you did! I grew up with pretty strict parents… and they’re still strict.
The sort of things you did when you were little sound like what I do now, actually. It’s quite amusing. My mum goes to work and expects me to practice piano, but I practice for a few minutes before she gets back so it looks like I’ve been doing it for a while.
I feel bad doing it though, and I’ve come to enjoy playing so I find myself playing without even thinking of my mum getting home soon.
My parents were always home when I got back from school when I was younger. I was never home alone until… until I was 17, to be honest! I feel weird now.
I loved watching Sesame Street every day when I got back from school. I watched quite a lot of television back then.
Speaking of lies though, I’ve lied a few times to my parents. Or snuck around behind their back. Like when I’m supposed to go to university or finish at a certain time, I go, then I bum around at the shops afterwards. I remember James sneaking off quite a few times before he was 18, and he said that when he turned 18 he was going to confess.
Like the time he went to an Avenged Sevenfold concert and said he was going to party. PMSL. XD
When I was a lot younger I actually lied about having cool friends outside of school. I pretended I had other friends. It was pretty stupid, I’ll admit it. I think even in high school I started faking that I had these friends. :/
Sometimes I make really good friends online, but if someone’s lying, how would I feel about that?
I know some people change their name, which is totally fine. But when people start lying about their age, about people they know, about things they do, at some point it’s going to get suspicious for others.
And putting yourself in the feet of the liar, you might get caught up in your own trap and make a mistake while telling all these fibs. It’s not good for either party.
I’ve found wonderful friends online, and maybe in the beginning I doubted a few things about them. But when you can trust someone enough to see a photo or hear them or you have enough evidence to know they exist, there won’t be a need to lie.
I’m talking about you and I being friends, LOL. Sort of. BUT YEAH~
I suppose when one is a pathological liar, it causes problems. But it’s going to be so hard when liars get founded out, for people to trust them again, or at all.
I used to lie a lot too, about lots of things. I think it got real bad after I started driving. I would lie about where I was going, who I was seeing, and what I was doing. I would lie about my grades, and lie about going to classes. I would lie about how much money I spent and what I spent it on. But the older I get, the more I feel inclined to be honest. Of course, I still slip up here and there in an effort to avoid an argument or getting in trouble, but I notice that my parents, and everyone else around me, gives me much more freedom and trust when I’m honest than when I lie my way through life.
I remember when i first started designing, I designed for this one MSN group, under my fake name. Then I just abandoned my duties and the site for like 6 months. When I decided to return to designing, I was afraid that if I went back under that fake name, that I wouldn’t be welcomed back, so I created another fake name, that was very close to my real name, and went by that for the next two years. I just wanted to be accepted and liked. But it got so out of hand that I developed an entirely different person with this name. When I moved away from MSN and started my own site under my real name and real persona, it was actually difficult for my groups friends to start referring to me by who I really was. However, over the last year and a half, I’ve realized that it’s so much nicer letting people see the real me. It’s a shame that people are so self-conscious that they have to hide behind their masks.
I lie, it’s true. Mostly about school work. Like, I tell my parents I am working when I am not. And I end up procrastinating and just hurting myself. Or sometimes I lie to myself about things, because I don’t want something to be true or I don’t want to believe something about myself. Not really sure if I’ll ever stop lying.
At least I’ve never lied to deliberately hurt someone else.
Yeah, my mom always told me to go by a different name on the internet haha. On some of those message boards and places I would go by Allie, though no one calls me that in real life XD Except like in elementary school when my friend got her parents to call me Allie haha
I remember I used to blog about site updates and that’s it. So it wasn’t like a wasn’t being myself, I just didn’t have a personality. Still not sure if my blogs are even substantial, but at least they don’t just consist of “I created new pixels today! Take a look!” anymore.
It’s so awesome you’ve made some good friends online. Do you think you will ever actually meet each other in real life?
I think it’s so sweet that Georgina made a fanlisting for you. I joined! You deserve it.
I don’t think I’ve ever been much of a liar, as in actually telling untruths… I think I was always more inclined to withhold information and just not tell the whole truth. I do remember one time when I lied to my mom about my grade in science in 6th grade. The way they used to do progress reports was on a half sheet of paper with a grid, and your teachers would check off a box that corresponded to your grade (A, B, C, etc.), and there were boxes for those who were borderline (so A-B, B-C, etc.). One time I got marked with an A-B in science because I had a 93% at the time, and my mom went off and interrogated me all about why my grade was so “low” … I didn’t tell her about the 50% I got on one lab (which I will still argue to this day was unfair). I told her I got high 80s on exams and they were worth a lot. She never found out about that lab; in the end, my report card only said “A” – they didn’t put on the numerical values until high school.
Wow, now I’m really wondering who this suspicious person is. I feel like we should gossip now. I feel like being a giggly schoolgirl lately.
I once had someone lie about who they were online before. This was probably about six years ago now. I used to help her with her site, and she was supposedly 12 years old or something. Then we were chatting over AIM, which was something we did often, and she said something which gave away that she was lying about her age. She finally revealed to me that she was like 20 and in college, but at that point I felt betrayed and misled because all that time she was hiding behind a disguise. For all I knew, this could have been another lie, and she would be someone else the next week.
I completely understand people having aliases, too, or if they don’t want people to know certain personal information… but to fabricate an identity just seems so wrong to me. Why be someone completely different? Why lie to strangers who you may never meet? The reason I blog and talk with other webmasters is to make connections and share more of me with the world. I like to believe that the friendships I make are genuine. Like you said, friendships are based on trust. And I have found that my best ones are those that I’ve laid it all out on the table, and they didn’t run away. They stayed. And we can trust each other with anything.
I am happy that you got your OWN fanlisting! So cool
Happy 2010!!
I joined the fanlisting! Yay! I’m so happy for you! That’s so nice of Georgina!
I admit I lied about finishing my homework so I can get on the computer. I’m addicted and I need not to be! Haha (:
I really like online friends. Blogging has helped me with my writing and also made me friends.
I think everyone lies at least once a day, often without realising they are doing it!! i went through a really rough stage when i was about 12, and started rebelling, lying and stealing all the time. now that was bad, nowadays, i try not to lie, but i normally do!
I try not to lie to my Fincee as i should tell him everything; but he doesnt know about my site, but i dont think that is uncommon amongst bloggers…..as long as you don’t lie in your posts.
I guess people lie to make their lives easier, i would love to be able to face all the things that i have lied about before, but I am just not brave enough!
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I`ve applied for the fanlisting
! Now you have a little army online 
! But it`s all for fun 
. Your friend is sweet& awesome 
A lot of people lied when they were kids. I know I have for homework& school. I got in trouble here& there by the teacher. When I got home, my parents asked, “Have you stayed out of trouble today?” “yes!” When trouble came to me :/.
But during summer of 09, I had to lie to my parents a few times because of band camp. They hate the fact that I`m joining. But lying to them is for the best at that time. It was too early to let them know because I could`ve been pulled out of the program at that time…
Though back then, I used my middle name often because I was paranoid about using my first name. Now, I have no problem with using my first name anywhere. It is that concept of growing up…
I don`t know where the girl is coming from, but being a different person is a huge mistake in the long runs. It keeps me wondering if she knows what she`s doing in the long terms…
That’s so nice of Georgina to make a fanlisting for you.
I tend to zone out when my parents talk to me about… anything really. I ask my step dad a simple question and get a lecture about it haha.
I used to lie a lot when I was younger too; only about little things though. Sort of the things like you (except I wasn’t home schooled) so I’d lie to my teachers when I had homework and didn’t do it. I’d just say I “lost” it or my dog ate it when I didn’t even have a dog at the time.
Usually when you lie so much it becomes a custom in your daily life; you don’t know what’s the truth yourself anymore.
I don’t lie much now either and like you I feel bad when I do tell a white lie.
OK lying about shit like that is ridiculous. Yes fair enough some people use a “fake” name online but pretending to be somebody COMPLETELY different is ridiculous.
I remember a girl who done that before; and a girl I spoke to a lot was like really good online friends with her and she didn’t even know until she found her MySpace…
It’s so much easier to lie online than offline. Nobody knows you in person. I don’t see the point in lying though, I mean in the “real” world you should be accepted for who you are not what you appear to be, if that makes sense.
I don’t understand why people pretend to be someone they’re not; it’s pathetic and stupid imo.
Though one thing that does annoy me about people who change their name is when they change it every month. I know someone who has changed her name so many times now. It gets annoying when you have to address them… Ha. Pick a name and stick to it.
Sorry kind of rambled there…
Yay I’m so glad you like it.
*Dances with joy*
Hehe yeah, Meera is awesome!
Did you get the chance to listen to Breaking Benjamin’s album?
I’m actually obsessed with it; it’s not even a normal obsession anymore ha.
Sorry 2009 was a shitty year for you.
I hope 2010 is a better year for you. 
Amen to that. I wish I was Cinderella though haha! Wait no I don’t… just remembered how the story goes lmfao.
Thanks, I hope I actually stick to them this year heh.
I must admit, I wasn’t the best of liars. I always felt really bad about lying when I was younger, however the guilt would pass me by..eventually.
I think I watched pre-school programs up until I was like in grade 2 or 3 o.o
I suppose in the end you did you work secretly (kind of cute actually haha). I suppose you could of negotiated the time to do your homework. Or maybe you liked watching TV during that time because you wanted to procrastinate? ;P
It’s quite common for people to pretend to be someone else or I guess you could say, make ‘pointless/meaningless’ lies. Maybe the person wants to be someone else she envies…she could have attention seeking disorder…she could want to sound better than she really is (i.e. popular)…bleh the reasons could go on.
You’re quite right. You can’t make true friends if your ‘friends’ don’t know who you really are.
I heard about Georgina making you a fanlisting! I might join, except I haven’t really joined any others, so I might have to figure out how it all works
Urrrgh, I hate it when parents go off and start talking about morality because they heard it in a song, or on a television show. And I’m like O.O
Thats cool how you were home schooled! I always wondered what that would be like. Did you like it? Awwe, all of us lied when we were younger, not a big deal because we’ve all realized that some of the lies were stupid.
Everyone lies now, to cover up and avoid potentially HUGE issues, so its all good! I think what made me change was when I realized that if I knew a person like me, then I wouldn’t want to socialize with them (does that make sense?)
Carly is my middle name actually, but atleast its a part of my name, but a different person? If you don’t mind me asking, who is it? I’ve heard about some people who do things like that =\
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I remember when I reviewed her on my old site, it took forever too! But I was so proud of it lol
Oh gosh, I was jean shopping again the other day, and the only cut that was fitting nicely was “sexy boot”. And I was like, what? O.o
Oh thank goodness, I would hate to fight with you, you’re too much of a good friend, and it’d suck to fight!
I was exactly the same when I was younger.
I don’t lie much now…just occasionally. Usually to teachers about having “forgotten” an essay. I do feel bad about it though.
Pretending to be a totally different person online is pretty ridiculous. Sure, I’m not the same person on the internet that I am in real life, online I’m much more confident and talkative, but I’m still me and I don’t make a conscious decision to change when I come on the internet…does that make sense? XD
I mean I have an alias but I’m not trying to be anyone but myself. On my old blog, where I did share my name and such, I wasn’t completely myself cause I was scared to have an opinion and be punished for it. I hope you’re not referring to me lol.
Its very nice that your friend made a fanlisting, means you really are worth being a fan of.
I used to lie a lot when I was younger and the few white lies I make now don’t really make me feel bad because its a way to get out of a situation where I might hurt someone by telling the truth.
Oh don’t worry, I wasn’t referring to you at all!
WHOOT! haha so fun of Georgina to make you a fanlisting! Love the lay she made and the buttons! Awesome dear!! hehe
Haha i guess as a kid we didn’t really have a concept of lying as that bad since we usually escape punishments because of it. But it’s a learning experience and we grow because of it.
I know what you mean.. that’s why I’m always wary with the net and just choose friends carefully. I also have an offline friend who has an internet alias and even if we talk to her through the net, she sounds so different than in person. sighs… sometimes the net is a mask for other people…
HAPPY NEW YEAR BY THE WAY!
I’ve come around here a bit before, just never stayed long enough for us to get to know each other. :3
-sticks out hand to shake yours- I’m Haley; you can refer to me as Clompeh or Hales or whatever you like. =P
Georgina is so kind. ? And it’s so sweet that you have your own fanlisting now, and even sweeter is the fact that you completely deserve it, too. I must join as soon as I post this comment. :3
Lying bothers me. I’m only 12 now (coming up on 13 in… like 6 ish months haha) but I don’t lie much. I wish I could say I don’t lie at all… but I really can’t – no one can. Sadly.
I used to, like you, lie tons when I was a bit younger. I watched my sister grow up and get busted for lying, and think, “oh, I’ll never do that!” and then a year later… there I am in her position.
Some things you just can’t avoid. =P
Anyways, I think that’s not really right for that girl to be doing what you suspect she is. I mean, I guess she might not be, but still… if you have reason to believe so, then, listen to the gut.
So, I shall join you. One… two… three… what the heck??
I guess I was a bit nervous at first about me on the internet, but as I’ve matured since my first website, I’ve tried to drop the name “Clompeh” (although many of my close internet friends who know me as Haley still prefer that). I’ve even become brave enough and comfortable enough for a picture on my biography page of Clompish. Just need to be careful not to get TOO comfortable…
Well, have a wonderful day and take care! xx
Hey Rachel.
Obviously I’ve opened Broken Desire now. 
I hate lying, to be honest. I feel so guilty when I do it, which makes me horrible at it. Sometimes my parents call me a stupid kid because when I forget to give them change back from going to the store for them, I always give it back and say, “Sorry, I forgot!” So they say that a smart kid would have just kept it, which is probably true, but I just can’t steal, let alone lie about it.
It was nice of Georgina to make you a fanlisting, and saying that if people are a fan of you, feel free to join, it doesn’t really seem that self-centered to me, since that’s the point of it, right?
Wow. I would never make a whole new person. My owner page is 100% truth.
The only reason why I never show anybody photographs is because I hate getting photographed. I dunno, I just do. And that sucks, cuz people say I would make a great model. Not cuz I’m pretty necessarily, but because I’m really tall and I have a fast metabolism, which makes me naturally skinny. 
Take care, and have a nice day!
Hey!
Yea I agree, creating a new name for yourself online is infinitely different from creating an entirely new persona. XP
I noticed that you’re 16 but in 12th grade… did you skip or something? lol. Just curious!
Yes I did.
I moved to first grade after three weeks of kindergarten. I turned 17 the day after you posted that though! 
Ahah, it sucks because I like used to NEVER have homework. And I haven’t had very much this year, because teachers barely give us any, or I do it on the bus or at lunch. I love being able not to have to do anything at home, just sit back and relax. So what if homework was meant to be done at home?
I never lie anymore either. Theres nothing to lie about, at least for me.
Cute site btw(:
Where’ve you been, girl?! I haven’t seen you on Twitter for ageeeesss, ((Unless I’m just somehow missing them?)) And you haven’t updated your blog recently, either!
Eeep!
Hope you’re okay! ?
Hope you’re doing well dear! haven’t heard from ya in a long while
I haven’t been on your site in forever nor have I talked to you in ages. Hi. ^^
Oh, lying. I was similar to you too. I remember my dad getting extremely pissed at me for lying because to my dad it’s the worst sin in the world. And nowadays, I agree with him. I don’t know what I thought was so amazing about it. Back then, I knew it was bad but I did it anyway, thinking it would save me from any furthur punishment. But after getting in trouble several times over a few white lies, I realized it wasn’t worth it.
For like they say, the truth will always set you free, at least in extreme terms. But I have come to believe that. Telling the truth has set my life on good terms with a lot of people, even when the truth isn’t pretty. It’s far better than having a guilty conscience.
That’s like what me and my cousin did. The work right when your mom comes home. During the summer, we were expected to follow this “schedule.” We’d have to do our KUMON homework, some workbook problems (to keep our brains in check over the summer), piano practice, and other things that made our brains work. I knew it was for the good of our brain, but I always felt I never really needed it. The reason I was stuck doing it was because my Auntie knew my younger cousin wouldn’t do it (he needed it) unless I did. Because he looked up to me in that kind of sense. And we had to follow it because my older cousin would watch us and make sure we did it.
But when my cousin no longer could watch us, because he was off to College or the time when we were left alone at home because everyone else was working. We would do like a minute of work and then go off to the computer and play games for the entire day until my auntie got home. It was quite a fun month that month. And our little secret never came out. We even went exploring in the attic. Haha, good times. ^^
Okay enough of my stories. Back to your blog.
I understand why some people would choose to go under another name online. You never know whose on the web these days anymore. As a precaution before, I’d go by Anne rather than AnneMarie. But I like the name AnneMarie and I just told myself to not publish my last name unless necessary. It’s better that way I feel.
ok so i was in helthh class (im in 8th grade im 13 OMGZ!!!! noone stalk me!)and my bestie ashley says”im lying to my aunt about going to pablos party saturday” “what are you gonna go do then?” i ask (remember me and ashley are 13)
she replys with”im going to go smoke weed” i almost broke down crying shed been lying to me for our entire 8th grade year. “wher are you gonna go?” i asked her,she pointed at my other bestie shayne. i just sat there and freking stared at them.noone get mad at me plz i dont smoke it.ew.
ok so my story with my online personas and what not =:0)
ok so i get on this like chat sight and its called meez.com(the sight i gave to write this) i am 14 on there and my name is libby and or lacey and i have 3 main accounts eieio_ily ily_cutie and libby123_123 (look me up if u want) and ill tell people im the kid sister of katie meez one of the online admins. but the scary thing is people actually belive me… its scarey kowing the fact that people will belive just about any thing now.
ok so thats it i think i dont know if anybody really reads these but if you do pleze pray for ashley for me (im not THAT religous!) becuse her mom is in jail she is virtually in foster care and her life just plain sucks so please please help me if you read this i need all the help i can get.you guys are the first ones ive told this btw. ÷) =:0)
When I was a teenager I used to lie to my mom about somethings .. mostly related to school since I hated it so much. But, I really didn’t lie to her about who I was with or where I was. But, now that I am older I really avoid lying … except to my stalker ex who wants to still be involved in my life and well, thats for my own safety & peace of mind.
hi, I applied for a review, but you can take me off the list
I find making a new person out of yourself rediculous. In my blog, I post about MY OWN LIFE and I don’t lie about it, because that’s stupid. I made a “screen name” because I particularly do not want to be stalked, although my name is awfully common. My first name is Amy, but I am not giving out my last name no matter how common it is. I’m Chinese, so you get the point of common last names.
Hahahaha. I love love love your smilies! They are crappy but cute! LOL! I love the heart eyes one aka this one:
LOL!
Your layout is cute, too.
Yeah, I think everyone has lied like that at least for a few months in their life. I [highly] doubt that anyone could go a day without lying in their WHOLE life, including their childhood. It is nearly impossible.
I know TONS of people who lie all of the time and they are adults….THE PAPARAZZI! hahahahahaha.
I just might join the fanlisting made by Georgina for you.
Georgina is awesome but her comments are so effing long. I was just thinking that if you were replying to them on an iPhone or iTouch that they would be a seperate blog ENTIRELY. hahahahaha. I like them though, she always has TONS to say, Idk how she can do that. Impossible for me. Hahahahaha.
Lying – that is suck a big word for me. It brings up so many memories of my childhood and teenage years. I use to lie a lot. I would lie about how I felt about certain matters to go along with the crowd, I would lie to my parents about when I got home, or what I was up to. I would lie to my friends, just so they could hear what they wanted to hear. – Look back on it all now I have learnt that I just had low self-image, I was worried about what others thought of me. I think most teenagers go through a similar phase in their life as well.
Just as long as we all learn as we grow older that lying hurts others, even online lying. It is fun to exaggerate the truth, but you never really know who is listening and taking your words to heart.
I always am curious about those who lie online, who create a completely different personality, or vision about their real life. What is the point, who are you trying to immpress? You only hurting those who have feeling for you, and have spent their own time becoming your friend only for them to find out it has all been a lie.
I’ll be bookmarking your site – I’ll be back!
Lieing is a part of life
I’ve lied to people before, but never to my closest friends.
I also have never really lied about my life online.
Blogs is where you can let your feelings out and tell the world your secrets, lol
Hear, hear.
I couldn’t have said it better. Using an alias is totally different from using another persona, or worse, inventing one. I don’t get the idea why some people do that. Maybe they’re not contented with what/who they are thus they create a persona out of their desire and imagination… someone they wish they could be. LOL.
I think I was much more honest when I was a child than now. LMAO
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Being homeschooled sounds really cool, lol though i know thats not the point of your blog. Anyway i think everyone lies. Your lies are hurting anyone when you were younger, But i can see how they might annoy you know as you look back on it. I know a girl who use to tell us, that her old boyfriends she met died 5 days later from cancer. It was highly unbelievable, i would say that is extreme. I also think i met someone fake, i dont really know. He would never talk on the phone or anything. Once i realized this i lost contact. I think you should lose contact with her, and also i think you can tell they are real. kinda. Like if they have a facebook (with lefit friends), you video chat them and stuff. I meanits hard to fake that.
I used to lie constantly, but of course I was younger and didn’t know much better. But they weren’t big lies or anything, just trying to impress friends, I guess, haha.
I don’t know why someone would create a whole new person on the internet, haha, to me, I think that’s pointless.
I especially hate it when people on the internet, like on a particular forum I’m a member of, fake deaths of their friends or something else tragic going on in their life just asking for attention. Because a lot of people wouldn’t be going and posting ‘my best friend died this morning’ once they’ve reached the news.
Ugh, I HATE when people lie about who they are. Like you said, it’s understandable to just make a name up or something like that for privacy/safety, but you need to keep who you are real.
I also find honesty to be a big thing of value in people. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find honest people.
Wow, that’s really strange; I used to do the exact same thing. With the lying and schoolwork. I wonder how many other people do that. It is so easy – mostly because you really do need to relax after school.