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Originally Posted by madworld42
The answer isn't to see a doctor. They'll give me meds for the depression and send me home.
I just want your opinions on what to do with the accounts. I need to work through this personally too and I'm asking how you would feel if you were one of my friends. Would you forgive me ? Would you prefer if I never told you?
I do have enough self control to not log in again. I did that with myspace and another website so far. I think I just need to pick one site at a time, and delete all of it.
Then I can work on creating real friendships.
I dont have $200 / session to spend on a doctor. So any advice that will help me do this on my own or with real people is appreciated.
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I know all about purging accounts, and deleting things on the Internet. I am a master at it. To make it look natural, I would recommend you delete
only a few of the accounts, then don't log into the rest. If you delete them all, it might look suspicious. The Internet is fast moving and changing; people will eventually shrug off the situation and move on. Maybe even immediately.
If you truly feel like this could be a step forward to "creating real friendships" as you said, I would recommend you go through with it in a calculated way. You seem ready. Besides, didn't you say those accounts were years old anyway? Try looking at an old myspace account, or a Youtube comment that was made 8 years ago. Eventually, that stuff loses it's 'energy' or value, and no longer becomes relevant at all. It may be that your accounts and alternate personas are already irrelevant.... maybe.
I would also recommend for now not telling anybody. You have anonymity on your side, and like I said, the nature of the beast (the beast being the Internet), works in your advantage.