I think I've been doing this online thing too long. I'm basically so jaded that I tend to politely acknowledge or disregard most folks with extreme equanimity. The few people I run into in any given year that I am genuinely charmed by, I basically grant carte blanche to be whoever they want to be with me. If they turn out to be a fraud (whatever that really means; honestly, maybe it's just my arrogance, but you can usually tell when someone is either deliberately fabricating their life, or quite frankly devoid of true personality to begin with; usually it's a little bit of both), I usually just pity them and move on.
That said, I'd be a little heartbroken if the few I've really come to like turned out to be other than they've made themselves out to be.
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