Who is behind the keyboard?

Bebi · **Bebi**

Who Is Behind The Keyboard: Author Unknown

Do you remember sitting in a chat room, watching people chat, or even chatting yourself? Do you remember receiving so many forwards that your mailbox was ready to explode? How about receiving an e-mail from someone just searching for a friend. Did you wonder who these people might be that are behind the keyboard?

Online we meet new people from all around the world. Some we chat with just once and then we go on. Others we chat with time and time again, and a friendship is made. Others become our e-mail buddies, and we look forward to their e-mails each day, but have you ever really wondered who was really behind the keyboard?

So often we meet a friend in chat we stay up all night chatting, sometimes we laugh so hard we cannot type, other times we cry and our keyboards are stained from tears. We chat about our lives and help solve each others' problems, we lend a shoulder if we can. Did you ever think to yourself, who is really behind that keyboard?

Did you ever chat with someone that promised you the world and that your friendship will be forever, and then they are gone? Do you forget about them and move on, or do you wonder "who was that person really, that was behind the keyboard?

Have you ever hid behind your keyboard, pretending to be something you are not, just to boost your ego? As you sat there and typed have you ever lied, thinking "who cares, the person behind the keyboard, it is only a fake person?" Did you ever hurt someone thinking "it's only a game"?

Well, behind each and every keyboard are very real people, some might be heartless cold people, not caring who they hurt, but then there are people that are caring, loyal, honest and all kinds of people hoping for some companionship online.

Behind the keyboard can be someone who is seriously depressed and their only hope is to make a friend, maybe an aging person who once had a family, but now they live too far apart to see one another, perhaps there is someone that cannot walk anymore or a person so ill they are in the house forever.

As we enter the world of the Internet we should remember, it is a very real world and behind each and every keyboard is a person who has a heart. No one has a life that is pain free, so as we go online whether in chat or just e-mailing, we must remember to treat each person the way the we want to be treated, to respect each others' feelings, and to offer friendship, because the truth is we really do not know who is behind the keyboard or what kind of hurt someone may be feeling. To be the best to others that you can be should be the "key" to a good, honest life.

Love,
Someone behind a keyboard

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vincent · **vincent**

Touching Bedi!

There have been a number I have made friends with and no longer see online anymore and yes I do wonder what they are doing, how they are.
The same goes for the ones I have gone nose to nose with.
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Guest · **Guest**

Bebi you know i used to be so skeptical about the inernet thinking it was silly, i was one who preferred face to face, then i found Um and many friends some i do know what they look like but some I don't yet i call them friends i care very much for them, some i talk on the phone with and some i e-mail and still they are my family...what a beautiful story becsue whether we can see the person or not the heart connects and that is something i have remebered you are right you never know that that person on the other end may be the only company you have that day and look forward to talking to you....or the person may be an inspiration or just be of lik emind s for a girl who once thought how silly has learned hat ther are many ways to connect and love each other .... Mr. Green

Geri_Berri · **Geri_Berri**

Bebi · **Bebi**

I actually first met my husband in a chat room called Whingers LOL

I think the internet is the same as everything else in life - you just need to use your head and be careful. IE if you decide to meet someone you talk to online take a friend or group of friends with you, make a night of it. If your friends are around there's less chance of anything dodgy happening. I've been to quite a few organised Internet Meets, I used to organise the Motoring Chat meets in Peterborough. It's a wonderful way to meet many people you've spoken to at once, and chances are half of them already know each other well.
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justcallmefox · **justcallmefox**

I've often pondered this myself...who is it that's typing out what I'm reading? This is why pictures are so nice to see on forums. froggy

Guest · **Guest**

LOL girl i was a big mouth about how silly it was and how weird to not see or personally face to face with them....man have i changed lol i literally have had a computer for a bout a year and only becasuse my family felt i needed one and I didn't want one they sent me one and I fussed over not watning to go on the innernet blah blah ,,,,then one night i was looking up the things the goverment doesn't tell you and i see UM and it got my attention other people like me...who would of thought.....
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