I'm pissed, and this is SICK.

Look, Facebook and MySpace are great social networking sites for lost friends to get back in touch, keep up with distant relatives, all that good stuff. It's also good for meeting people of the same interest; particularly when you're going through an illness or disability that you can share with someone.

I have probably 3 Amputees a day on MySpace and Facebook who add me, and I have no problem with it; I like meeting new people, I like offering advice and I like receiving it, as well. But more and more, lately, I have been getting requests from people who pretend to be amputees. Yeah, it's a real illness; people who cannot stand the concept of 4 limbs, and crave amputation-- whether by forced injury, or self-destruction. Also, people who just have fetishes with amputees. It's sick. I can always tell the fakers, the wanna-be's and the people who have fetish's. They're easy to spot, too.

Here's what to look for: 

-Generally they'll only have one picture up- a generic one; they're default picture and generally they DON'T have a leg on in the picture. Also, when you talk to them, they mention how they'd rather not wear their leg because it "gets in the way". <----- BIG GIVE AWAY.. the limb "gets in the way"--(read above).

-If and when you ask for more pics, they'll either give you pictures that look very old and/or distorted, which by the way they're never wearing a leg-- or they'll conclude some vague answer like "oh, I'm not very photogenic".

-Also, They tend you ask you tons of questions regarding your amputation, but give little info about themselves. When you ask, they're vague and give general answers. I've come to find the most popular answer of how they "lost their leg" is cancer at a young age.

-If you do finally get them to open up, they never know a lot...strangly.. read this, it's from a real conversation with someone I caught: 

Me: "tell me more about your story/ leg/ when you lost it/ type of prosthetic you have.. im interested"

Him: "got bone cancer when i was 6

chemo didn't work so it had to be amputated"

Me: "what kinda prosthetic do you have"

Him: "you are going to find this strange but I don't know alot about that stuff - i don't really want to know.

as long as it does its job than i am happy"

--Yeah, nice try buddy.

People are so sick and I'm coming across these people more and more, daily. I'm considering deleting my sites. ugh.