Thread: Internet Relationships

i can honestly say that i would never try online dating

im kinda against it but if i met a girl on facebook i guess thats different but i dont no

I have to say that while I'm all for online friendships, relationships are a bit far. I've been in one, which was more like a friendship because it was years ago (and I'm fifteen - do the math), one friend of mine is so obsessed with hers she's broken promises to others, and the other friend I know cheated with her really nice Internet boyfriend (who she went quite far with before meeting him) for someone who just isn't perfect. Then she got angry at me and Friend 1 for supposedly telling her online boyfriend that she cheated (he dumped her, and was very hurt about what she did). Maybe she got bored or something... but the fact is that you're NOT seeing each other on a daily basis or even at all sometimes, and that means you can't be as close as you can be offline.

It's one thing to meet online and then continue to see each other on a daily basis offline... it's another to carry on an entire, even sexual, relationship without ever meeting the other in person. As I know from experience, it just doesn't work.

what the hell people under 18 definatly shouldnt even make friends over the net

Scruff McGruff would be disappointed....

That he would, but in Soviet Russia, crime takes bite out of YOU.

My future step-aunt and uncle met online.

Well, it's nothing official really yet. Though, I'm positive they're gonna get married soon cause my uncle only shows us the woman he's dead serious about marrying.

Originally Posted by CsuTiBea

and if they are really serious about it, maybe they can meet one day :] i mean anything can heppen

Originally Posted by Don_Sharko

If you knew the person before in real life, I wouldn't call it internet relationship, it is more like long distance relationship. Long distance is not as bad as internet relationship, though it also requires a great deal of trust in order to make it work.

these statements are both true, i think. I think that there is a distinction between an internet relationship and a long distance one. Long distance relationships are based on trust, which is built up over time, so the truly successful long distance relationships will have known each other irl for at least a decent amount of time.

Originally Posted by coolpuprocks

My future step-aunt and uncle met online.

Well, it's nothing official really yet. Though, I'm positive they're gonna get married soon cause my uncle only shows us the woman he's dead serious about marrying.

geez how many times has he been married?

ok... the only picture that comes to my mind is one of a man who think he has a gf over the internet, but the gf turns out to be a middle age man...

gives me the shivers

I saw an article somewhere about some dude who had an "internet relationship" with someone for half a year and it turned out to be his mom playing a joke....