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lidsworth wrote a beautiful piece entitled "internet friends", I thought I'd share it and my candid warning with you.

Internet friends are fake, unreal, untrustworthy.
Parents say , “Don't give your information
to someone who may do something dirty!

They're liars, evil and rapist in waiting.
Their compliments and gifts
are just another form of baiting.”

I'd like to think that we judge without
getting to know,
what happens on the other side of the mouse.

Internet friends are there when we're alone,
till 2 a.m on weeknights,
chatting with us until the pain is gone.

They're always there to confide,
when we're sometimes
on the verge of suicide.

Pulling us through our depression,
begging us not to relapse,
not to succumb to our regressions.

“Get help, not attention,” they'll tap in chat,
as a response of a picture,
that'll show our wrists all hatched.

Sometimes it's the little things they do for us,
like sending “You're amazing” “You're beautiful”,
“You're so full of love.”

They encourage us at times when our “friends” don't,
when our parents have turned their backs on us,
when they've clicked us off like a TV remote.

It's amazing how these people we have no idea about,
are constantly running
to us, and willing to  pour their hearts out.

They take our suffering as if it's their own,
and help and help
until they can do no more.

Internet friends are usually angels in disguise,
and I think it's safe to assume
that everyone's been an internet friend once in their lives.

Beautiful, right?
My comment: Your poetic analysis of the ease of confidentiality under the cloak of internet anonymity is both beautifully insightful and naive. The truth is, that today, that anonymity we trust is a fallacy.  We still feel it, and it helps each of us to unburden our psyche, often receiving genuine compassion from one or many. But while most of those opening their hearts or consoling the wounded have no clue who or where we are, you may rest assured it is all being cataloged digitally. IP addresses, GPS locations, identities, and the heartfelt flood of emotions, all in one tidy little packet.  For what purpose? I already sound paranoid enough. Watch Dinesh D'Souza's documentary: America: imagine a world without her.
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Familiarity breeds contempt, so distance breeds...

...compassion?

But yes, people (and more often, entities) will take full advantage of naïveté.