Before you talk to anyone
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Before you talk to anyone
Online, you never meet a person. You meet what somebody chose to send you. The name, the photo, the age, the story about the school they go to — all of it is typed, and anything typed can be typed by anybody. That is not a reason to be frightened of the internet; it is just the one fact it runs on, and most of what goes wrong online is somebody forgetting it. The other half is what goes the other way: what a…