Internet deception

Just recently I have realized that online communication technologies can have a large impact on interpersonal relationships in deceiving ways. Through social medium use such as blogging, people can never be sure if what they are reading is true or if they are being deceived. Online identities can be presented in any way a user chooses, so what someone is presenting to the online community could be completely fictious as to who they are in real life. The real lesson to learn whenever getting involved with others online is that you should never fully trust what you read or see because it could just be a false projection of how others want to be seen, not who they really are.