Taking Back Sunday - Liar

No more hair! :)
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I have no idea how to put this ever so eloquently so let me cut to the chase. Brace yourself, this could be long.

The internet is a fascinating place. Believe, me, I've explored a spectrum of it that most of my peers could possibly never fathom, or could they? The mere idea of the internet intrigues even the greatest of minds. It brings so many generations together at all odd hours of the day. Before, our grandparents wouldn't have dared the company of such technology and yet our younger generations can instant message their nanas and papas at their disposal. LOL, TTYL, TTFN. All lingo which somehow morphed from the screen and clung to the vocal cords of all people a like. Though some of us experienced it from its early stages, there are still tons of people in the country - no, in the world who are still being exposed to the wonders of the infinitive life that you can find beyond the bare and desolate pages of front page google and yahoo. You can find almost anything. No escaping the land of fantasy and non fiction all combined into a place some of us have failed to understand of how it even exists.

There are communities for people who have love for hair treatments, fashion, death, darkness, life, afterworlds, underworlds, vampires and as horrible as it may be, you can even possibly find several pages telling you the most comfortable or least painless ways to commit a suicide. How to elegantly go about it as well - not only that but to make your suicide note possibly one of the most beautiful pieces known to man. Insane? Yet true!

Amongst all of that is also the intense idea that one can escape their own reality and dive into a world where they no longer have to be Kerry Finnegan Hamelton but now they can be someone completely different! They can be an entirely different age, create friends who don't exist, and a whole new life they only dreamed of living. So many do it, so little recognize it. In this, there are also people who hide behind fake images, avatars, a disgusting world of just unnatural discussions and indulge themselves in the life they would have loved to take part of. Most of these human beings, find themselves developing an addiction to the "life" they tell of and maybe at times, believe these fictitious lies they tell their internet friends who very well may be feeding off the very same lies. And yet, then, with the avatars and fake images they portray of themselves, they tend to grow so fond of each other and the image they've maintained in their mind of who the person they're talking to really is. It is a dark and demented thing. Females pretending to be males, males pretending to be females. So they say, "the internet is for you to be someone else!" and maybe you can log onto that addicting game with the 3D people, spend REAL money to buy digital clothes for your 3D character and interact with people all over the world but those who sit behind instant messenger and tell the tallest tale life of their life? They fall in love with that persona they created. They get attached. Even the ones who reveal their true identities after the lies and the faux photos and avatars, they still have a strong fondness for each other no matter how opposite they are or how ridiculous and wrong the situations might be.

I need the sick and twisted people of this world to realize something. I will go into this in a later date.

To be continued...