User blog comment:Sannse/On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog/@comment-971093-20130122190128

I think it's also important to remember that seeing isn't always believing, many of the safety precautions given here can also be applied to life outside the internet. Just because you see what a person really looks like, doesn't mean they are telling the truth. When I was 18, my boyfriend and I at the time worked with this guy, my boyfriend had known him for a couple of years as a co-worker and I'd known him for nearly 1/2 a year when we decided to move in with him. We thought we knew him and could trust him, we knew him afterall, we could see him, we worked with him, but he ended up being arrested for child pornography and because me and my boyfriend lived with him we were dragged into the chaos for nearly a year before things were settled. It's a scary thought, but on or offline there's going to be people that lie and misrepresent themselves for various reasons, and caution is always a good rule of thumb, on and offline.