Everybody has heard about, or been trained to expect, that the person on the other end of that chat or IM is lying egregiously about their age, social status, weight, height, hair and maybe even gender.
All guys are buff fighter jet pilots and all women are supermodels.
Two funny reminders of this. This photo of who is on the other end of a chat will scare some sense into your teenage daughters.
And there is a company called Nerdy Shirts that offers this classic (on the left). (Check out some more of their funky shirts.)
