True Story.

Honestly, I didn't know Mary well.  I didn't know her from the OBY, and at the time that she was friends with some of the people i know, i was immersed in my own message board.  I only friended her on FB because she friended me, and i actually had her 'hidden'.  I would only look at her pictures, or conversations on occasion.

Occasionally there was a twitter conversation, but it was always my foolish bantering and blathering, never anything personal or of substance.

So when Mary 'died', i just looked around at some of the comments people had made, and sat back on my haunches.  Didnt seem real, didnt seem right to me.  There wasn't anything that really jumped at me.  I don't know much about her back story, i didnt know much about her 'treatment', or cancer, or MS, or ALS.

I looked at some pictures of 'Chloe', and it clicked.  I had seen the girl before.  On my Grey's message board.  The mother had asked a friend of mine not to use the girl's pics (She would use them as illustration of what her character looked like)

It was the same kid... this was all Thursday.  I did some more digging, and found that the nursery pics were stolen, the chloe pics had been taken from the FB, but the 'newborn' was still there.  That was also stolen.  The pictures of 'daniel' were stolen. 

I didn't like the idea of people i know and care about mourning the loss of someone who obviously didn't exist, or at the very least, was misrepresenting themselves.

I'm not in the business of blame.  That's not my job.  I just wanted it to stop.  That was why I posted the blog.  I turned off comments, and I was very clear. 

The internet is not an invisibility cloak.  It's not a fountain of anonymity.  Things can be researched, found, and exposed if they are fraudulent.  I honestly don't care who Mary is, or the reasons for doing what she or even 'he' did.  The point is, that it was wrong.

For all I know, the ruse was just some kind of sick psychological experiment. 

I posted the blog yesterday, because i'm a blabber mouth that can't keep her trap closed... and couldn't see the positive side of allowing REAL people mourn someone who doesn't exist, or doesn't have the decency to be themselves.

Sorry about the babbling :)