People do lie. They lie on here and to themselves. Example, there was a person in the chat room the other day and their profile information stated that they had been clean since 2010. Yet they were off their face on weed at asking everyone "why do I always do this to myself".
I view the chat room as a sanctuary. A place where I can go and know I will find support. I don't expect to go in there and find people trashed...I was more than a little p*ssed at this person for bringing their BS into the room.
So yeah, people lie on here and in the real world. It's the nature of the beast I guess.