I always tell my friends to be careful what you believe online. Just because a person says they are one thing, it does not make it so. You can have a little faith, giving someone the benefit of the doubt, but don't just believe and behave as though every word is truth and they can be trusted with your heart and security.
It isn't just that I know this from unfortunate experiences. It is because I can watch people I know in real life, people I have known in my 39 years of life, successfully deceive dozens of their online friends into believing they are "godly" and trustworthy. People who have friends on their page they know to have molested and raped young family members but allow these people to mingle with their underage friends and friends with small children. People who post scripture on their page, every status message being about behaving as a "good christian," and "not bearing false witness."
Yet, these are the people who abused their own kids in one form or another, sold their children for sex, participated in the kidnap and underage prostitution of their own 14 year old sister, threatened their father with bodily harm if he told what he knew, convinced people they were the real victim of everyone they victimized, etc.. etc... etc......
And their Facebook friends and even relatives they have not spoken to in years believe every word they say because it is said with gospels and scriptures and the assertion that they are some kind of ministers for Christ, they are grandparents, lies about having degrees for colleges they never even went to, all while hiding the very twisted horned skeletons in their closet...
As the family member of such people, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is extremely dangerous to put your faith and trust into someone you meet on Facebook. I don't have to read the news to hear about people like the Craig's List Killer. I know people like that and I'm telling you, pretty words have no meaning when they come from a stranger on the internet.
It isn't just that I know this from unfortunate experiences. It is because I can watch people I know in real life, people I have known in my 39 years of life, successfully deceive dozens of their online friends into believing they are "godly" and trustworthy. People who have friends on their page they know to have molested and raped young family members but allow these people to mingle with their underage friends and friends with small children. People who post scripture on their page, every status message being about behaving as a "good christian," and "not bearing false witness."
Yet, these are the people who abused their own kids in one form or another, sold their children for sex, participated in the kidnap and underage prostitution of their own 14 year old sister, threatened their father with bodily harm if he told what he knew, convinced people they were the real victim of everyone they victimized, etc.. etc... etc......
And their Facebook friends and even relatives they have not spoken to in years believe every word they say because it is said with gospels and scriptures and the assertion that they are some kind of ministers for Christ, they are grandparents, lies about having degrees for colleges they never even went to, all while hiding the very twisted horned skeletons in their closet...
As the family member of such people, I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is extremely dangerous to put your faith and trust into someone you meet on Facebook. I don't have to read the news to hear about people like the Craig's List Killer. I know people like that and I'm telling you, pretty words have no meaning when they come from a stranger on the internet.
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