Before the Internet, the early dial-up bulletin boards were something I thought would bring me contact with like-minded people in other places. In some cases it seemed to, at first... but then I realized it really didn't. People can pretend to be anyone or anything even easier when they are not in front of you. Then came the Internet and more people were online... and it seems like at some point all the people who used to think it wasn't "cool" to be on computers suddenly wanted computers and phones and online forums and whatever... and then it was just filled with all the people everywhere who I wouldn't want to be with in real life either... and I found myself wanting to be with real people in real life... but nobody was around.