Why

Being lonely and online all the time in communities can cause it. I once made a friend on YouTube in like 2007 and we would just talk about movies all day after I got out of school. I didn't have many friends with similar interests so I liked coming home and checking to see if I had any new messages. I wasn't obsessed with it but I would get excited to talk about stuff I liked with someone. Eventually because we were really close friends online they revealed to me that they weren't the person they portrayed themself as (an 18 y/o girl with problems at home) and they were actually a guy around the same age as me who had mental issues (nothing extreme though) and I even met his sister on MySpace. After that we stopped talking because I didn't trust them as much anymore and I even questioned if the sister was real. After MySpace stopped being what it was I stopped using it and never heard from them again. I guess it was myself that got into that situation in the first place just because I thought I made a great friend online, I wasn't targeted or anything. Nothing bad happened though, but I haven't had any online only interactions or friendships as thorough as the one I had at that time since. It was quite an experience.