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This is an open blog seeking thoughts and opinions about what CS is really all about.

It is advertised as a dating site with many other features.
But I ask, isn’t it really just a social site with some dating features.

Just as Facebook and Twitter are social sites. There has been success in some from those sites getting together and dating, even getting married.

Let’s break down what makes a social site.

A social site is a place where people can meet and make friends through communication over the World Wide Web. Where games, puzzles, communication publicly or privately, a collection of members that can interact in so many different ways, A place where people can meet and share life experiences and make new friends as well as catch up with friends they haven’t seen for a while, Somewhere they can post pictures and tell stories, tall and true, A place where people can interact on a daily basis. Isn’t this CS?

What is so different between CS and Facebook, Twitter, even LinkedIn or any other social networking site?

Should we just consider CS a dating site that offers more than other dating sites, or should we view it as a Social Site that offers more than other Social Sites?

Advertisers are equally important to both Social Sites and Dating Sites, or do advertisers pay more because a site specialises in Social networking or Dating?

How many Dating sites allow debate about various topics such as Capital Punishment, Religion, Same sex marriages and so forth? Yet social sites encourage this type of interaction.

How many Dating sites have extras such as a poets corner, forums, blogs, face puzzles, photo ratings and so on? Yet Social sites have all these.

I could go on and on and on, but I really would like all those out there in CS land to give me their view/opinion.

WHAT DO YOU THINK CS IS REALLY ALL ABOUT?
I may not be able to quickly respond to all comments, but i would really appreciate as much feedback as possible.
I will be back to add my thoughts a little later.
Thanking you all in advance.

Inspired by a blog i have just recently read, i offer the following.
It has been my unfortunate experience to be associated with a person for a period of time that was not the person I thought I knew.
Now I am not that easily fooled, but over a reasonable period of time I had taken time to befriend this person and delve into their life. We shared many private things together, things that maybe our family members may not know.
We shared many hours getting to know each other, understanding each other’s traits and getting to the stage (or so I thought) that we knew each other as well as we knew ourselves.
It has come to pass, that the person I had befriended had been living a life full of lies.
This is the problem with the telling of just one lie, unless you own up to it, another lie is needed to cover up the first lie, and then another to cover that one and so on, like a snowball rumbling down a mountain it just gathers speed and becomes out of control.
Before you know it, your life has become a complete and total lie.
Not are you lying to those around you, but more importantly to yourself. How can anyone have such little regard for their own life that they would continue creating another lie to cover the lie before that and on it goes.
It matters not what the lies are, your age, where you work, your friend’s name, where you went to school, creating extra family members, using other people’s pictures and passing them off as your own. Even your name, your qualifications, what sort of phone you have, inventing a child you never really had or stating that a family member has passed or has a terminal illness. It is just being deceitful.
Now I know some people will say a little white lie is ok, but if you don’t own up to that little white lie, you have to invent another lie, and that is a little bigger than the first and not as white either, until you have been caught in a web of deceit. WHY would anyone want to do that to themselves and to those who try and surround them with love?
I am no angel, yes I have lied in the past, and will no doubt find a reason to be untruthful in the future, but I have not, and will not live my life as a lie.
The biggest problem comes when that person believes their own lies are the truth, when that happens, how can anyone differentiate what is real and not real.
Just recently I have had to deal with a person like this, a person I respected and held in high regard, a person who I was proud to say was a friend. I found myself doubting everything this person said to me, and that made me feel terrible, as if I was letting this person down in some way.
I went away to try and clear my head, with the help of other friends I researched some of things I was told, what I found out was mind boggling, it completely floored me, how could I have been so naive, so gullible as to believe without question for so long what was being told to me.
I am not bitter, just confused/bewildered as to why some people go to the level of deceit that they do in order to lie to people. The level of the deceit I uncovered included the help of others, others that may have befriended many other people.
I feel betrayed, but the person has betrayed themselves more I think.
Can I help, should I help?
What would you do? The scariest thing is you may even know a person like this.

There are times in each life when you have to decide between what you want to do and what is practical. I have reached such a crossroad.

Finding the right solution is not always easy, especially when it is not what you really want to do; then implementing the practical solution is even harder. At times like this you have to do what is going to be best in the long run and you are bound to disappoint the very people you care about most.

But there comes a time when you have lift your anchors; a time when all that remains is the eternal question of what might have been if only…

I think of this topic, just wonder which kind of opinions people can come up with. I wish to have lots of people discuss here, thank you in advance!

There is no two ways about it for Leo women – it is an all-or-nothing deal. This intensity and passion, which manifests in every aspect of her life, has its greatest focus in her love life. Everything that books and movies depict love to be, you have the highest chances of finding, with a Leo woman. This means a roller coaster ride of extreme highs and profound lows. This means BIG LOVE, the kind that rocks foundations and shatters stars. She will place her love in the center of her universe, but she will also like for this to be reciprocated, and she will not settle for anything less. Leos tend to fall in love easily, and when she falls, she falls hard, and completely. This is not to say she is easy or that she will settle for just anyone, but when the right suitor strikes her fancy, it’s easy for her to submit to the love feelings. A territorial lover, Leo women can tend towards the possessive, or slightly jealous.

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I think sometimes we all get up on the chaois, past hurts, pain, and the stressors of everyday life, natural of course, but i think sometimes, as myself, i do forget the beauty of everyday life, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift, that is why we call it the "present". We cannot do anything about the past, or tomorrow, only today. It is very special we have today, so although sometimes i present as goofy, silly here, i know its my own coping mechanisim in dealing with my own stressors of my today, my release from my own reality sometimes, but with a smile i say to you, my simple rules to daily happiness is:

1. free your heart from hatred
2. free your mind from worries that u cannot control
3. live simple
4. give more
5. expect less

hope u all enjoy and unwrap ur gifts for the day as everyday really is a gift......

You are loved

You are needed

You are alive for a reason

You are stronger than you think

You are going to get through this

I'm glad you are alive - and don't ever give up.

Your name tells alot about you. It's like a first impression. I really like my real name, and I think a name has it's importance.

Does your name suit your personality?
What name would you prefer if you could change it?
What English name do you think suits me?

when I've written a blog I see the numbers of views that took place. The comments are just 'the comments'......usually the views outnumber the comments by 10 to 15 to one. I wish to know who are you viewers, are you shy to post, is your English not your first language????? Are you afraid to write that first word??

A ONE word answer is JUST FINE....an explanation is certainly your choice.....here goes...

What profession did you wish to be when you were a child?

For the more risky lurkers did you achieve that childhood wish??

I'm not excluding the regular gang, just trying to see more people contributing.......