can we really get to know people in the virtual realm?

lately been crazy browsing through people's blogs. kinda a good activity really except for the eye strain once u forget to blink due to being sooo absorbed in the posts.

one thing i can learn.

people say that, if it's online, we can hardly judge people.

reasons:
1. we cannot see the true faces of these people.
2. maybe they are just putting up gimmicks so that people read their blogs.
3. eleh, nothing laa. it's electronic, no way u can study people's behaviour from their blogs.

i would love to add more reasons but i don't wanna bore myself typing down the long list of misconception of people towards blogs and stuff.

how can we actually judge people from their blogs or social networks and stuff??

the most apparent factor would be the pictures.

we can see how and what types of photos are uploaded into their blogs or networks. it could be their families, friends, tehmselves or just objects. in my theory, the ones who put pictures which include others like friends or families mean that they prioritize these people in their lives. especially pics with bf and gf kinda thingy. as forindividual pics, i believe these type of people are really confident of themselves. if not, why would they expose their pics for many people to see right?? we can interpret this type of picture with various objectives but all would come back to the level of confidence these people have. just watch the body language, the eye contact with the camera n stuff, and voila, u can easily hypothesise about them in just one click.

another thing that contributes a lot is how much they reveal themselves online.

ok, this can be quite contradictory to beliefs but still, i think that those who reveal a lot in their profiles and stuff are people who can easily open up to new people around them. maybe in real life, they might not seem that way but by revealing themselves online, it could be a source for them to project who they actually are in the real world. maybe they don't have enough courage or just being mysterious, we do not know. again, different circumstances can be interpreted differently. it needs congruent observations to finally identify what type of person we are in the virtual world.

i would also observe on how often they update or go online.

this is a factor which vaguely conveys the type of person if we are to judge them in the virtual realm of cyber. hehehe. a lot of variables need to be considered in order to construe who we really are when we surf the internet. some might treat facebook, ym or whatsoever so called networks seriously because the people they care often go online. others would just merely treat them as a recreational activity where they can wind down after a long day of work or study.

i don't know.

these are my assumptions.

on how i see life. from the cyber world perspective.

natural instinct also plays a highly significant role in evaluating people via the cyber realm. who says that if we are in this virtual realm, nothing is real? could be out there somewhere, there is just a real person as lively as a soul should be, just waiting for all the lies in the virtual world to mitigate.

maybe, all we need is to just trust. hmmmm.......