To not believe a single bloody thread on here any more?

[Hullygully]

Or am I just too old

I always believe everyone i read because it just wouldn't occur to me to make anything up, so i can't imagine how sad you'd have to be to get attention for something not real by people you don't even know.

I have never posted on any other forums so admit i am naive (sp?). When i first posted on MN people called me a troll and i didn't even know what it meant. Also i didn't know the rules of 'drip feeding'. So i started with a small amount of info so as not to overwhelm and then when said something later got told off

Also my life is like a soap opera - seriously - really dramatic/shite things/unbelievable (mainly because of Narc family) situations happen to me all the time, so i never doubt anyone else. Maybe i should become more cynical. I don't really venture onto the web apart from MN tho as it scares me!

@Hullygully

CBA

They'd have to just close the site down

Don't bloody tempt me

I can assure you that I do have a grumpy husband and a weight problem. You are welcome to come and inspect both :)

Yeah Hully. It's fun to make fun of mental illness. Let's call people trolls when they are obviously in deep suffering, it's a good laugh.

'Except LineRunner I'd call you on that. There have been frequent times on here, that I have felt like trolling. I wouldn't be surprised if MN has a significant number of married older female trollers - way above the norm. I've never felt it on any other forum. Just this one. Have I? Nope as tempting as it is at times.'

Now that's really interesting, and surprising to me as I have never, ever ever felt the urge to screw people over because they are doing something a bit annoying.

I've trolled once or twice in the old days but it was funny stuff - never anything serious and designed purely to make people laugh as much as I was. That sort of trolling is good and we rarely see it any more on here.

But wanting to troll people who are genuinely trying to help someone - however much they might be getting it a bit wrong, or be trying too hard - is horrible, and totally alien to me. (sorry)

I've never understood why people do it - is that the answer? What a sad world

and just to be absolutely clear, I'm talking about the sort of funny where everyone knows it's a blatant joke and laughs along with you till they figure out who you are normally.

That's all I've ever meant to do. Not deceive anyone to get back at them, that's way different.

Thank heavens it's not just me. I can't even be arsed to report them at the moment. Bloody Active Conversations full of bloody crap. What am I supposed t do? Parenting or something?

I do tend to think "oh get a grip" A LOT!

Actually, that was a bit harsh. Probably about six threads today. But it feels like all of them. Except this one. And any of the others started by real MNers...

I'd love to just post "oh get a grip" on most AIBUs...

have just reported one in active convos for the second time - it's been popping up for weeks.

Tbh I don't think it's about peoples' circs not being believeable. Bad stuff happens to people - it does and that's crap and it's life. I think the issue for me lies with the fact that people turn what they claim to be their rl lives into online soap operas, with an episode-by-episode run of events.

I think the vast majority of dramatic threads are fake, tbh. any thread that is a long-running, single person support thread, which then reaches its conclusion and another is started to make the drama ongoing is IMO fictitious and I give them no time what so ever..

and by single person support I'm referring to threads that are started by one individual, for support for that one individual, which then spills into more than one thread.

I am not referring to support threads started for specific groups of individuals such as conception/bereavement etc. Just so that's clear.

I'm new to MN and have to say the AIBU threads are a bit scary......lots of angry people.what happened to " live and let live"? I suppose the posters do ask for opinions though.
It strikes me as ironic though that there is a lot of anger (rightfully) aimed at the Daily Mail by very angry Daily Mail reader types!
I stick to S+B. . The one about what to wear to the zoo, whether it was a troll(?) or not was fantastic!
Do not dare venture onto feminist thread.

"I think the vast majority of dramatic threads are fake, tbh. any thread that is a long-running, single person support thread, which then reaches its conclusion and another is started to make the drama ongoing is IMO fictitious and I give them no time what so ever.."

this ^

those threads which have a breathless op returning briefly to say they are ok but can't go into details but will be back very soon... I see people sucked into them so often and tehn when they are exposed as fake those people are so upset that they have been taken in. Don't believe the vast majority of them.

My best friend, who is on benefits and lives in a five bedroom detached house, and refuses to read the daily mail is shagging her daughters headmaster. should I report her?

Sigh. I'm not a troll Honest.
I just need to ask AIBU to feel guilty for locking my 4 yr old adopted DC out in the garden.. only to find to my horror @ 12pm that i'd forgotten to give her breakfast?

I only remembered when i found a half-eaten bird on the lawn (yuck!) - yes, she'd got SO hungry that she caught her own breakfast. Then ran up & bit me on the leg.
My poor Darling Cat. Don't worry MNers, i assure u that i haven't forgotten to feed her since!

Seriously though; trolls remind me of attention seeking types i've met in RL - their dramatic life stories seem real enough until they tell one lie too many.. Although i do feel sorry for people who are so desperate for attention that they will lie about their lives.. but they annoy me too as their lies make life worse for people who need help & support for REAL problems.

Sorry to derail the thread for a minute, but did anyone else actually read that article linked to ^ up thread?

I nearly fell off my chair at this quote: "Social distance can cause a 55-year-old climate change sceptic with a job and a mortgage to behave like a spastic donkey with strange malicious behaviour," said researcher James Heathers, of the University of Sydney.

wtf?

yes, I saw that. tasty.

I think it's hard because I automatically assume everyone is like me, behaves basically the same online as in RL, and doesn't make shit up in either place.

But I've had real life experience with a sociopath, someone who faked having cancer, dead children, an evil conspiracy where a local rich family was trying to have her killed, etc.

Now, even though I don't understand it at all, I know it happens, and it's a hell of a lot easier to do this shit online than in RL.

There's just somehow a smell about it.

I don't really understand either why people fake this stuff. I know logically it is for attention, but emotionally it just seems incomprehensible. I knew someone like that who faked lots of stuff too. At first I believed the few dramatic stories she told me - showed her scar from being shot - more believable than it sounds here as she comes from a country where this seemed a possibility.

It was actually her ex who toild me a month after meeting her that she lied constantly and told me she had lied about having cancer, about her mum dying, etc. And it soon became clear as she forgot what exactly she had told me that she was lying about lots of stuff.

But in the end, people have to be pretty sad, very lonely or screwed up imo to do this kind of stuff.