Who Is Behind The Keyboard

Who Is Behind The Keyboard?

Do you remember being in a group,
watching people post, or even posting yourself?
Do you remember needing and looking for inspiration and communication with another living being?

How about receiving a friend request from someone
just searching for a friend or a little human contact,support,understanding or inspiration.

Did you wonder who these people
might be that are behind the keyboard?

Online we meet new people from
all around the world.
Some we chat with just once
and then we go on.
Others we chat with time and time again,
and a friendship is made.
Others become our e-mail buddies or group friends
and we look forward to their e-mails or postings each day, but have you ever really wondered
who was really behind the keyboard?


If we are lucky and find a safe place we may meet a friend and we may stay up all night chatting,
sometimes we laugh so hard we cannot type,
other times we cry and our keyboards
are stained from tears.

We talk about our lives and help solve
each others' problems, we lend a shoulder if we can. Or find one when we most need it.
Did you ever think to yourself,
who is really behind that keyboard?


Did you ever chat with someone
that promised you the world
and that your friendship will be forever,
and then they are gone?

Do you forget about them and move on,
or do you wonder "who was that person really,
that was behind the keyboard?"

Have you ever hid behind your keyboard,
pretending to be something you are not, hurting others just to boost your ego?

As you sat there and typed
have you ever lied,been hurtfull,rude or cruel thinking "who cares, the person behind the keyboard,
it is only a fake person?"

Did you ever hurt someone thinking
"it's only a game" or "I don't know you,so who cares?"
Have you been quick to assume and make judgement?

Well, behind each and every keyboard
are very real people,
some might be heartless cold people,
not caring who they hurt,
but then there are people that are caring,
loyal, honest and all kinds of people
hoping for some companionship and
understanding online.

Behind the keyboard can be someone
who is seriously depressed, sick,tired or scared,
and their only hope is to make a friend.
Maybe an aging person who once
had a family, but now they live too far apart
to see one another, perhaps there is someone
that cannot walk anymore or a person
so ill they are in the house forever. Maybe they are isolated because of their disease.

As we enter the world of the internet
we should remember, it is a very real world
and behind each and every keyboard
is a person who has a heart and can be hurt.

No one has a life that is pain free,
so as we go online whether in a group
or just e-mailing, we must remember
to treat each person the way
that we want to be treated,
to respect each others' feelings,
and to offer friendship,
because the truth is we really
do not know who is behind the keyboard
or what kind of hurt someone may be feeling.

To be the best to others that you can be
should be the "key" to a good, honest life.
And should be the Golden Rule when online.

Love, from
Someone behind a keyboard...

Author Unknown....