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The people you meet in cyberspace can be just as unreliable. According to
the Georgia Institute of Technology
(http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/user_surveys/survey-1997-04/)
many of us give false information about ourselves
online. It is not just in war that truth becomes a casualty, it seems to be
taking a battering online too.

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