...becoming known only as a profile on a page

This is for the contest 'What Are YOU Afraid Of?' by [link]

The idea of this contest was to express your fear in a creative way.

Since I became ill 6 years ago, I have had very little contact with the outside world. Friendship is something that has fallen by the wayside as I had to prioritise events and activites in my life and keeping in touch with friends was always at the bottom of the list. Needless to say, the little contact I do have with people is through social networking sites such as 'Facebook'.

Corrospondences with friends are through emails and instant messages, and there is a freedom given with this that makes me more outspoken and humourous than the me in real life. The me I put across on my profile page is not the me you will see.

The cyber-contact I have with people seems to satisfy their curiousity about how I am and what I have been up to. The need for face to face encounters has disappeared and does not even make it onto the list of things to do. It is this way of thinking combined with my habit to embellish aspects of my personality that has left me with the fear that people will only know me as 'Sara on Facebook'. I will be the 'cyber-Sara', only contacted via a webpage, my life documented by others through updates in my profile. The need for a real me, a tangible me is quickly fading away.