Some recent talk about Fake suicides on another blog reminded me of an incident that occurred on my chat site almost a year ago. Our chat and broadcast was going on as usual when someone on the chat blurted out something to the effect" I am done and am going to end it all." I am not sure of the exact wording, but a number of the senior chatters picked up on it, one, notably, my former super admin NANANC.
Now, by some miracle, NANA supposedly able to contact this woman through pm and both calm her down and get her contact information and thus save the day. We were all happy about this and thanked NANANC and so on and so forth. As time went on the memory of this incident faded.
About a month or two later, I received an anon letter from someone claiming to be the "suicide lady" and that the whole thing was a hoax (joke in her words) that her and "some others" set up NANANC being one of them.
I dismissed the letter as being from someone who wanted to discredit NANANC as I was always getting these and other letters about some of the other Staffers and "trusted members" on the chat.
In hindsight, I should probably have paid more attention to this letter and some others that continued to arrive after that incident.
One thing that I was reminded of was that this person "went away" shortly after this incident and never came back into the chat. In fact, not anyone that I have talked to can remember who she was.
It is unfortunate that such a good deed may be, in fact, a cruel joke, a hoax, played by someone I trusted to care for something I worked so hard to build up and provide for my "roomies."
I once said to a number of admins in a closed session "I do not trust anyone on the internet, and unfortunately that includes all of you." They all agreed with me and all accepted that except for one, Mommiesdollies1.
In retrospect, my instincts were right, although I continued to trust two of them longer than I should have.
MURTWITNESSONE
