User blog comment:SlappyWiggins/How Sophie Was Caught/@comment-4169456-20120106085933

Ok don't know the whole story but did she ask for or take money from people or ask for or get item's. I mean if none of that happened then I don't see why this is such a huge deal?

I mean yes it is wrong to do but to make this big of a deal about it is just stupid. The biggest reason is you are giving the person even more attention which is what they were after in the first place. Obviously this person has problem's be it being extremely lonely or I'll go as far as having a mental condition that make them crave attention munchausen syndrome comes to mind and is probably a major problem these day's due to how easy it is to claim something on the internet (no offence Sophie, I myself am Bi-Polar, have Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic personality disorder, ADHD, and have been told I have Aspergers syndrome. So don't think for a second I'm belittling you.)

Also I mean you don't know what their life is like irl either. I mean there are a lot of factor that are in play in a situation like this. But to demonize a 16 year old girl for doing this is taking it a little far. Im not saying nothing should be done or no one should be hurt. She should be held accountable for what she did but this is only making it worse.

As far as Sophie goes you are going to have a lot of work ahead of you if you hope to salvage your relationships with the people you hurt. It might not have seemed like a big deal at the time but your actions did hurt people. First thing you need to do is apologize and come completely clean with everyone and explain yourself. When you do so tell the truth and be 100% honest about why you did what you did. I think you will see that people can be forgiving as long as you are honest. This will help you just as much as it will help them. You will be able to get things off your chest and let out your feelings. You also need to realize that you don't need to make up things like this for people to like you. All you need to do is just be yourself. People will be more receptive to you if you are yourself and are honest.

Also you need to realize that one lie leads to another lie and soon you are making up lies to protect the original lie. You also need to realize that this is the information age, if you lie about something more than likely people are going to find out so way or another. You have to be very talented to lie on the internet, irl you can lie and get by with denying it ever even happened. On the internet there is actual physical proof of your lie and if anyone feels like checking if you are telling the truth and calling you on it the proof is at their finger tips. Also if I see someone say something that doesn't seem right or make sense all I have to do is open another tab and type in what I was wondering. It took me no lie less than 30 seconds to see that if it was major heart surgery the hospital stay would be a week or more and if it was minimal then the hospital stay would be 3-4 days. Now Im intelligent so I took in consideration that complications happen but still the shortest you would be in the hospital would be 3 days. When it comes to telling a lie on the internet it's just not a good idea unless your just hitting a random person that you wont have much contact with after your lie.

In summary, Sophie was wrong and she should come clean and apologize but at the same time people are blowing this out of proportion. What she did was wrong but this kind of stuff is just exasperating the problem.