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And I experienced something like the reverse of this, while I was on FB. Seeing my friends being mealy-mouthed and trite continually, because they were on a public platform visible to everybody they ever met in their life, made me involuntarily lose so much respect for them. I had to close my account so I wouldn't see it anymore. I can understand the mentality, and the desire to be this way, because I can remember feeling that kind of pressure to be a certain way and work on my cachet, when I was in middle school. I just have a really hard time tolerating it now when I see it.