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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: charlie mcgeehan who wrote (70575)	11/7/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: Ivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90042

Never got a PM from you Charlie. Thanks for the complement though. And I'll pass on starting a thread. Unlike Tim, and many of you, my life does not revolve around the approvals of people whom I do not know (or even the ones I do know). Funny story, kind of related. When the internet was just getting into the mainstream, chat rooms became the rage. People would spend hours talking to each other in the comfort of their little caves. A gal I worked with, we shall call her Nell, sat one cube away. Since she was a rather lonely gal, she spent a large amount of time chating during the work day. Unfortunatly, she didn't know the company was keeping traffic logs, complete enough to reconstruct her "discussions". Lets just say they were very graphic. Graphic enough, in fact, that a large number of men actually called her (she was in fact stupid enough to give them a phone number). So what's the point, you ask? Well, one day Nell is conversing with a guy who is local, setting up a "date". He asks her what she looks like. She says that she has an athletic build, dark hair, and is told she looks like Demi Moore. Nell was in fact, at the time, between 375 and 425 pounds. After that I moved my office (it was a very sad and pathetic situation that a person would need to create a persona to feel whole and complete and I did not want to be involved with it) and eventually she was fired from her job for screwing around on message boards instead of being a productive member of the company. Now for the moral. You never know who is on the other end of that line. Even by phone, a person can be quite different than the reality that is their life.