Navigating the world of cyberspace leads to many different areas. I often view cyberspace like a globe of the world with large general land masses that comprise small communities. One of the small communities in this vast world I have spent too much time in is the that which deals with social networking. Why I do that is in part because I enjoy meeting new people like myself that are dealing with similar issues or just have something positive, informative, or humorous to share.

Basically all I've ever had to do to enter this world is create a user profile, throw a couple pictures of myself up there for the world to see and browse the site for several minutes before emails and instant message requests start rolling in. The messages that I get usually don't correspond to who I am looking to meet and that is when the fun starts. Just to be clear I'm a lesbian. I'm in a fourteen year relationship to a stunning woman. I have a daughter, a cat, a home, and no desire to stray from my partner. I only want to meet other LGBT persons. This is something I make abundantly clear in multiple areas. I usually have some from of a humorous warning to attempt to stem the tide of straight men contacting me like a headline which reads "Men please do not contact me, I have a raging case of herpes, toe nail fungus, and some form of yet unidentified social disease found in sea lions."

I thought perhaps that would keep men away yet it did the oppossite, they started contacting me in droves. One guy even sent me an email that he likes honesty in women and that he too has herpes and perhaps we would be the perfect match. At first I thought it was a joke but as I read on saw he was serious. I tried being nice and sent him a reply explaining that was a joke and that I am a lesbian. I have no interest in dating any man and only joined to meet LGBT people, however I hope he has luck finding an honest woman riddled with social disease that would want to date him. An hour or so later I got a response that he enjoys women with a sense of humor, maybe we would be the perfect match. Some folks never learn.

Initially I used to allow the IM (Instant message) feature of sites to remain on because I just didn't know better. It only took about three days to start searching out methods to shut it off forever. The first day (As I spent several hours setting up my profile and browsing the site) I had maybe three dozen IM windows open at various times. Initally I was encouraged as a nice

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