Have you ever become infatuated with someone you knew only from the Internet, someone you didn’t really know outside of the Internet at all? Did you spend too much time looking at their Facebook photos or reading their personal blog? Did you feel a strange attraction to them? Did you feel like, somehow, you just knew them really well? Did you ever reach out to them and receive an unsatisfactory response? Did you ever leave them anonymous comments, perhaps even angry ones, or generally act out toward them in ways that were unusual for you?
You’re not alone.
I’m doing research for an article on this kind of Internet experience, collecting a series of cautionary tales that will hopefully help people from going too far down the rabbit hole. Confidentiality guaranteed.
So everyone on the internet qualifies for this, right? RIGHT?!
