[KaoriHoshiko]

I was just curious.
because one of my bestfriend, she has a boyfriend, and they've been dating for 2 years now? online.
I think she has seen him like twice, last year, and on valentine's.

i think she's truly love him. but they have had their problems.. and it's really annoying you know because they can't solve it
since he lives like 4 hours away from her. but they did meet online. it's really confusing me me.

and my other friend, her boyfriend's from greece (i live in Florida btw) and they really like each other.
he's like rich, so he's planning to come to america and go to college with her.


have you had a seriously relationship online?

what do you think about it?

personality i find it weird.. i don't know.
how do you completely know and trust a person you've never met face to face? or even look at him/her in the eyes?

i myself have one relationship online but it's not extremely serious, he's just my friend online, but i feel like i want to meet him in real life but we live so far away. what do you think?

weird?
ok?
cool?
love has no limit?
extremely creeper material?

[AzNsk8er4Lyfe]

I guess if you meet in real life it's okay..
But if you dated someone like one person in america and another in china (hypothetically)
it'd be creepy cause it can be a 40 year old guy with no life lol.

[last love.]

Tbh, I'm sort of in an online relationship right now. YES I KNOW. IT'S BAD. Yeahyeahyeah, but I think it depends on the person. Sure, the distance and the fact that you don't know if the person on the other side is who you think he/she really is .. gets you, but I personally think it has its positives. Sometimes the person on the other side really IS who you think he/she is, and you won't be sidetracked by the physical appearance. XD

As long as they meet SOMEHOW in real life, I think it's fine.

[Teaaheart]

FRIEND, I SHALL TELL YOU WHAT I THINK OF ONLINE DATING!!! Although I find it incredibly sketchy and those who use online dating sites are... iffy, but it really can bring you true love and I have my brother's story to share here! *Gets excited lol*

This was about eight years ago, way back when Napster was still around and my brother couldn't sleep one night, so he decided to get on the good ol' dial-up internet and download some songs. While downloading, he got bored, and so he looked at the chatrooms and figured, 'hey why not, I can't sleep anyway" and so he entered some random chatroom and started talking to this aussie girl named Lauren. From there, they added eachtoher on ICQ and MSN, and continued emailing and talking online for the next three years. Then, one day, my parents get this mysteriously HUGELY EXPENSIVE phone bill listing all these long-distance calls... Turns out, my brother and this girl from Austrailia were falling deeper in love and began calling each other from half way across the world (we'd get these calls at like 5 in the morning @_@). Then another two years later, they made the huge decison for her to immigrate over to Canada and be with my brother. And now, they're engaged!!

Online dating takes SO much of a commitment to actually work, especially if it's something like my brother's where they were halfway across the world from each other for years and years, but managed to keep everything amazing and pulled through in the end! Hoorah for Napster chatroom thingies... : )

[-_-]

I don't like it. Too easy for people online to hide who they really are.

[kanyewong]

I don't like it. Too easy for people online to hide who they really are.

web camming?
but yeah, with the internet people can hide under a mask.

[leeahh]

I reckon it's fine as long as they eventually get to meet. For me, even some online friends have proven to be better friends than some of the ones I have in real life and I probably would be someone totally different if not for people I've met online. so I guess it's weirder for people who don't really have much of a "second life" to find nothing wrong with online relationships. and as for "hiding" who they really are, people do that "in real life" anyway. nothing in life is simple.

[starber]

i don't like it :/
simply because you may not know who the person is or looks like (unless with webcam) and also you don't know how the person really is in r/l. It's so easy to be something your not on the internet. You may think your in love, but once you meet in r/l, the sparks die away.

[MNLV27]

I would never get into an online relationship, I'd probably make friends online but never be in a relationship with someone who I never met in real life before. I have a friend who met his gf through the internet, I guess it can work for some people but I personally would never be in an online relationship.

[nxtlvl]

It seems so hard because of the distance that could be set between two.

And I wouldn't know for sure, but wouldn't it seem like it's hard to communicate in person since you'd be so used to chatting online?

[-_-]

web camming?
but yeah, with the internet people can hide under a mask.

Yeah not just physically speaking. It's hard to gauge someone's character just by what they choose to type or portray themselves. Just 5 minutes spent with someone in person can tell a lot more.

[hungrycollegeboy]

I'm pretty traditional in the sense that I want to know and meet them in person.

But truth be told, I had an online crush, but then she got married (Doh!) lol. I'd like to know them in person, and only use the internet as a form of communication between us, when we're not together. If that's considered online dating, then yea sure. But I doubt that considered online dating.

What I picture online dating to be, is 2 people who've never met in real life, being BF and GF online.

[xo_sugar_ox]

personally i wouldn't want to be in an online relationship. i wouldn't be able to trust the online person o__O

[Nganie]

For me, I don't like it at all. & i will never want to be in one.
I think it's not serious for dating online. It's just be thou.

[TechnoFibre]

Ehhh idk, it just seems shady because people can hide so much of what they don't want the other to know so easily.

Although, I'm sure there are lots of success stories. There are positives to online dating since websites like eHarmony match people up based on personality and preferences.

[naoto]

No. Creepy as hell. I don't care how technology has progressed, I don't date my computer. But I know a girl who loves to talk to strangers and meet them in person they are not older people. same age but still I think it's stupid.

[imclarence]

Should be a problem.

I've got a friend a couple of years ago, they met in an online game and they live in different cities.
Eventually they broke up.

[mizz_J]

Online relationships are kind of like long-distance relationships in a way. They both takes a lot of work, honest, trust, communication and commitment between the 2 people involved. It also takes a lot of patience but if both party works together, it may be worth it in the end. The most difficult part is the distance and the fact that they can't be there for each other physically when they need one another. And yea, it's hard to trust people from the internet because you'd never met them in person and you dont know whether they're really who they say they are. But there are honest people out there, it's just up to you to decide whether you can really trust them or not. Personally, i find it easier to express my feelings online. Online relationships aren't necessary a bad thing, really. The prince charming you'd been waiting for all your life might just be that one guy you talk to and have feelings for over the net.

It's kind of weird because the people you meet online are sometimes better than the ones you met in real life. Some guys on the internet are also better than the guys that are around you, or at least that's what i think.

[KaoriHoshiko]

woah thanks for you guys' opinions.
people does have a lot of different ways when it come to thinking

[QWERTY.]

i find it so gross
and weird

and my mom's "friend" (she actually hates her cause she just comes to my house to eat my food)
she met some guy online and she was telling my mom how he works with houses and was rich (she thought he was a relater)
so she flew to CA (im in md) to go see him
and instead he was this fat guy that was a construction worker
and she was disappointed
suck a freakin LOSER