Before you sign onto Howrse, always make sure your bullshit detector is turned on. You don’t even need to have a good bullshit detector, because most residents of Howrse.com are really bad at bullshitting. Boy do they sure love to give it a try anyway though…
In fact, I can’t even believe how many bullshit liars use Howrse… I don’t even actively seek people out to message them besides a select few. I’m so very unsocial, and I still run into so much bullshit I could start a bullshit farm, full of everyone’s lies, cheating, fake kids, fake illnesses, fake gayness, fake spouses, fake problems, fake ages, fake interests… Just heaps and heaps of fake bullshit and lies and attention whoring.
I’ve debated taking screenshots of all the bullshit private messages I receive, and even blocking out their names to keep the bullshitters’ identities confidential… I don’t know if that would be considered bullying. A part of me feels like they’d deserve it for plaguing me with their bullshit. It’s not like anyone but me would even know who they are…
Anyway, if you’re a howrse-user and you like to send stupid bullshit lies to people, make sure you stay the hell away from doing it to me. No matter how much I play along and politely reply, pretending to give a damn about the fake life you’re telling me all about even though we’ve never spoken before, the whole time I’m talking to people like that, I just keep thinking to myself, “God damn… What a fucking whiner liar.”
Do these people just target people like me or is this a problem for everyone on Howrse? I’m speaking mostly of those sorts of players who message you out of nowhere with something like,
“Hey. I like your page. How are you?”
and so you answer, to be nice, “Thanks. I’m good. How about you?” (And remember - you have no fucking idea who this person even is…)
and then they’re like “Ever since my daughter died from cancer after my husband abused me, I’ve been having a rough time. I’m seventeen and am pregnant with twins and my dad doesn’t like that I’m gay. With all the panic attacks and seizures I have, I don’t know how I’m going to get a job to support my family! I fear the sun and am allergic to oxygen, so I can’t even go outside. I don’t know what to do!”
And then you’re like “…… ??? ……”
Even if any of that shit were true, why message a stranger about it out of nowhere? Fuck…
Still applies…