A blog dedicated to show different views surrounding the BDSM life, written by a Master and directed towards both slaves and masters.
Saturday, October 26, 2013
The friendship system - Success and failure of online trust
Many slaves have asked me as to why if I claim to have such a long number of slaves that have served me in the past, why my friend list on recon is so small
That has some explainable reasons easy to grap
The first and more basic is that adding friends can only be done from premium membership
As very few ever took the initiative to add me in the past, there was not that much to show
I have premium membership since December 2012
The second is that profiles are made and destroyed too quickly
Some time ago I made a small exercise and selected from my contact list a few spaced nicks from previous contacts I had made
From that list, less than 15% were still in existence
The third reason is that not every slave that I have trained in the past wants to be known to have been under my service
In fact many are not even able to be associated with anyone to begin with
That happens too much in countries that do not have a gay open community, being Portugal one in that list unfortunately
As a keeper of secrets, I have no interest in the exposure that comes from that
Nevertheless I understand that there has to be a balance between secrecy and exposure, specially in terms of reference points for future contacts
Dating services are made popular by providing an anonymous way of connecting people without having to expose yourself and be seen, touched and evaluated
Photos can be retouched or just be internet pictures that you like, profile data can be faked or "enhanced" to meet your made up ideas about yourself and fantasies can be written down without any physical support to the real you and what you are truly in search of
To help you in that area the friend list on your profile (that I call in a jokingly way as the friendship system) could be a good help
If you were to add every person that you have known personally in the past and that could grade the realness of the profile and the ideas on that he stands for (being in terms of recon if he is a good fucker, fister, fistee, master, slave, dog or whatever they one day invent) it would be nice
Some sites use that concept already and it seems to work out
Nevertheless in a virtual world friends can just be people that share the same ideas or that have something that you like and you may never have seen in real life
Just because you have a nice text and/or pictures you may have 200 friends and have met none
As it is now, the friendship system has deep flaws in terms of the evaluation of a truthful identity of a profile
Each user is free to use and abuse it according to its own views about its purpose
Virtual does not connect with the real and it does not provide any meaningful fulfillment
There are too many fake profiles in any service you may use
Trust is something that has to be earned
Eye to eye
Flesh against flesh
Trust your own judgement about those that you are in contact with
The choice of whom you will meet is yours in the end
Nevertheless if you know me in person and wish to add me to your friend list in recon you are free to do so and to do it as well to all of those that you know
The friendship system is better than nothing, but a mere drop in an ocean
Never enough to really fulfill your thirst
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