Realfakes: Thomas does not exist

On the Internet, people construct deceptively real bogus identities. I fell in on such Realfakes and I feel betrayed. How can you handle it?

Realfakes: Thomas does not exist
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    The fact that re is a lied on dating apps is sufficiently well known. Also in social networks re are enough problems with artificial identities – mostly because of fake profiles number of followers driven upward being, or because robots drive political campaigns against unpopular people. But y can still be filtered out. Worst of all, however, are those who construct a dummy that is so deceptively genuine that it begins to live – at least digitally.

    The damage it does is a special one. Because he hits heart. And I mean honestly, because that's what happened to me.

    In third season of talk show series Dunja Hayali I was on a dementia care ward to accept problems of affected and caregivers. After show, young nurse Thomas Lehmann wrote to me personally on Twitter because he had seen reportage from Munich nursing home.

    I was done: he was polite and reticent, he knew, wanted to talk briefly about home and my impressions. He knew this was an issue that was important to me and with which you meineAufmerksamkeit. On or hand, I am always open to feedback from people I do not know but who are interested in my work.

    I had no suspicion, we wrote back and forth. It was not for a meeting because, when I was in Munich, he had to jump in for a sick colleague and had no time.

    We stayed in loose contact. I found this not to be alarming, because online people come to me again and again to discuss topics.

    With number of emails I get, I find it hard to care who hides behind online identities. I don't pay attention to spelling errors or punctuation from users. and first of all, I don't have any patterns behind spellings.

    After several weeks of contact with Thomas, however, or users made me aware that way to write and to commit exact same mistakes was repeated with or users. It was about trifles: type of sentence position or wrong punctuation.

    Date Of Update: 13 November 2017, 12:03
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