There isn't a day when someone comes up and tells me about this WONDERFUL person they have "met". When the conversation continues, you find out that this wonderful person lives 2500 miles away or is in another country altogether.
Is the internet the NEW Social form of dating? Why is that?
Whenever someone tells me about the wonderful person they have met, I always ask-why go online to meet a fool when your state is full of them? lol
I am paranoid about meeting people offline. It doesn't matter if they are female or male. I am talking about simple friendship. Not even a relationship.
I have been online since the nineties and when I first came online, I noticed there was a different TYPE of person online. They were the same online as they were offline and the net wasn't being used as a dating tool.
Yes, people met and fell in love and married, but that wasn't the focus. It seems that's all people use it for now.
I have YET to see a successful internet founded love. It seems folks have met, "loved" and found out that the wonderful person isn't so "wonderful."
I have a theory about this.
It is easier for folks to pretend to be "wonderful" when the other is so far away. They know (or hope-lol) that you aren't going to just show up to see that mansion is just an apartment or that Mercedes is a Datsun.
When they send pictures, the pictures aren't recent, and the lies just continue and the "wonderful person" is just another liar in that persons life.
Back in the day before unlimited long distance, I actually know of people who had phone bills that were as high as house notes. Just to find love.
Share your internet love stories or what you have learned since you have been online.
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