I’m not sure what it is about the internet that encourages people to share the intimate details of their real lives with anonymous e-friends.

Maybe I’m just out of the loop, but I don’t need to know any details … I don’t want to know any details … if someone needs to quit an online game, I’m willing to concede that whatever reason they have is valid and needs no further justification. Hell, quitting a game is like killing gophers: you don’t even need a reason.

In the following example, a short post about “I have real life stuff” would have been sufficient, rather than “I’m having erectile dysfunction issues and here’s all the details”
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