What do you think about internet relationships ?
828205
well i have a boyfriend i met off the internet and so far it has gone great! he is at training for the army and from that he is getting money and using some to come visit me on his Christmas break. I am so excited. You gotta find the right person though, someone you can make sure won't cheat on you.  I can tell my bf isn't cheating on me, I can just tell because we talk allllll the time on the phone and he's just really into me like i am into him.  and this guy knows my personality so well that i think even if he didnt like my looks in person, he'd like me for my personality, now i dont know that 4 sure but if it ends up he stops talking to me after we meet and all, i'm not going to take it all that bad because i know he's not the right guy then obviously and i can go on and find someone else. i mean, this guy lives far away anyways. but yeah anyways i think its a good thing if you can take distant relationships and you can trust as well as be trusted.  trust and faith is very important
1165630
Of course you're right.  I wouldn't want to meet anyone I didn't feel comfortable with.  I don't think there's anything wrong with wanting to have a good online relationship with a person before I met her.
385148
I can say Yes.\nI am in love with him in the net for one and a half year and we plan to meet in 4 months, we are both excited about that. Though I have not met him yet, I do believe that I love with my true feelings and so does he. It doesnt matter you love someone in the net or off the net. I feel lucky to have such a nice guy thanks to the internet.
643779
Internet friendship is not at all wise, nothing but a waste of time, i mean whats the point in chatting with a guy/gal (you dont even know), with whom you have no common ties, like geographic location (he/she cud be lying) common topics of interest (if sex yes, its common to everyone!!)\n\nI have made friends, they still r present on my IM, but we rarely chat these days, bored . . .nuthing to talk bout. . .trying to ignore each other for reasons numero\n\nFrom my own experience, no internet friendship. cuz, you will be wasting your time and resources on nothing concrete. If you do want to have internet friends, take it to the next level, phone, sms, email or even meeting. . .but while meeting dont go alone or to a uninhabited island to meet. . .you know why. . .\n\n\nTrust is the key, and reading the pages of history, I cant find much glorious events of trust and belief between mankind!!!!\n\ntake care. . . .
65646
It's an online relationship.
450845
I am married to a man that I met online.  I thought that I loved him while we were only communicating online.  But once we actually met in person and starting dating things were very different...in a good way.  And I then when I ACTUALLY fell in love with him, I realized that what I felt for him before wasn't love at all...but more of an infatuation.  \n\nI think it's very easy to get feelings for another person via the internet.  But I do honestly believe it is VERY different in person.\nI don't think you can love someone until you know them completely, and you just can't do "at first sight" or over the internet.
736250
i think you should stay with her; it is an online thing after all; think of it this way: would you appreciate it if she talked about your mutual affairs in public? but you are exposing the intimate details of your relationship here, right? so the anonymity of the internet is a shield for certain things, that would otherwise be unacceptable.
1093171
I hope you date somebody off of the computer, or else the it would be pretty hard to have a physical relationship.  \n\nYou can date somebody off of the computer, but you had better make sure that they are who they say they are first.  There are a lot of weirdo's pretending to be something that they are not just to get to young people on the internet.
805989
I believe it's possible because that's how I met my husband :) ! I also have a few friends who have also met their significant others through the Internet. I believe it's a good way to meet because you really get to know a person. Whereas I'm shy and take a while to open up to someone in person, I can talk more freely and answer questions this way.
1049020
It's easy to feel this way about someone that you are communicating to on the internet.  Probably many things in common, sense of humor, etc.  Be careful tho.  On the internet there is no commitment, no responsibility.  It's a whole new ball game when you're together.  Take things very very very slow, don't let your emotions take over, it's too dangerous.  Be cautious and if you meet do it in a public place not just once but every time for quite some time.
208792
I find him:-) I really loved him. He is very very very handsome. I had write an address( ı think it could be my friends address.Yes somebody said me hello.But it wasn`t my friend and it wan`t a girl it was a really handsome boy.I broke up my ex-lover `cause I always think about my net lover.I love him very much and ı become happy when he logs on the MSN.
189976
Yes.  I found my one true love online, its hard though, cause he lives in NC and I'm in PA, but we do like each other and hope to meet.  We talk online, use the web cam, talk on the phone.  There are so many more people out there and I absolutely believe there is that one person meant for you.  Why not try online?  Nothing wrong with that.
665742
I have met three women that began as on-line conversation. It was very cool, as we came to know alot about each other before we met in the flesh. - Personally, I think it is a great way to meet people, as long as you are smart and safe.
781607
I don't have a problem finding love over the internet. After all, I met my husband on the net.\n\nWhat I have a problem with is people who actively go looking on the internet. It's like putting your name in the personals in the newspaper. A sign of desperation. And last I looked desperation isn't a good thing.\n\nThe internet is also dangerous because people don't think when they meet someone on the net. They rush into it talking about how they met only a month ago and have talked for only a week over the phone and want to get married to this person. For some reason, if it's over the net, they don't want to wait until they actually get to know someone.\n\nMy husband and I have known each other for almost 9 years. We knew each other for over three years as friends over the net. Then we spent 5 and a half years "dating" going back and forth between our countries and talking on the phone for hours and hours every night for YEARS. \n\nWe've been married since June.\n\nMost people aren't willing to take the time it takes. It's not like meeting someone face to face. It's alot more dangerous and you don't have the ability to look at each other so you can rely on your own personal perception. \n\nPeople also aren't willing to wait until they're over that "honeymoon" phase of the relationship and work at the communication part. It's why most internet relationships fail. They can't handle the distance and work on the communication.\n\nEven my family, the people who were so sceptical in the beginning and advising me against getting involved with my husband. Even they have admitted that this is probably the healthiest relationship they've ever seen due to the level of communication he and I have. We can even finish each others sentences and yet we will find each other absolutely fascinating. Even after all this time.\n\nIf people would learn to be patient and take it slowly, I wouldn't say anything. But most people seem convinced they want to marry this person after speak to them for only a month or so over the internet. It's ridiculous.
642442
I do not.\n\nInteracting with "people" on the web is strangely compelling to most of us. We are usually at work or in a room, basically alone, at home or a cafe. We look at a screen and type.....read a response.....and perceive a relationship developing. It may be a banking relationship or an instructional relationship, a buying /selling/ questioning/ answering relationship. We may have cyber-friends and/or cyber-enemies. Our perception is one of a group (or couple) engagement of ideas and dialog.\n\nWeb-sites are commonly filled with declarative statements, rhetorical questions and "sticky" links and crude Q&A response threads. When you plug yourself into a more "human" question and answer session with a "live" human individual you begin to feel like the screen and keyboard in front of you "comes alive".....almost like a telephone call. With the advent of one and two-way video feeds the web has finally created the "ambiance"  of a real meeting of two or more people. You may still be alone in a room but your mind begins to "lean" towards believeng you are sharing a "moment" with another person.\n\nAs mentioned.....buying a car or doing your banking  or getting/giving advice to a client or a friend is made easier and more convenient by using this technology. However, it will never replace intimacy. And many types of relationships require a truly intimate experience.....not only a sexual relationship.....but a truly healing relationship requires intimacy. Compassion requires intimacy. Reassurance requires intimacy. Real friendship requires intimacy. The web will never be able to replace holding someone's hand in a time of need or a time of reassurance or a time of congratulations.\n\nBut we short-cut that true intimacy and many times settle for something APPROXIMATING intimacy with our love-life. We all have FLIRTED on the internet at some time. It's fun and basically harmless. I love to try to answer questins and imponderables while bettering my typing skills and self-editing abilities. We all do something that is fun while using the web to be our buddy/tutor/ soapbox/journal or scrapbook.\n\nSex..........as we have allowed ourselves to view/experience it.....has become a daily cat-and-mouse game for many pepole. Some of us have forgotten what makes sex so wonderful and ALIVE so we become so jaded and "mechanical" that we surrender the most intimate part of ourselves to be corrupted by a typed word and/or a pretty picture.\n\nThe Defence Department created the internet.......the sex industry and the people who pay into it have FUNDED 90% of its growth and develpopement costs!!!!!\n\nLet's enjoy the fruits of what pornography has built (this cyber-infrastructure).... but let's also resist becoming a slave/zombie to it. The REAL people in your life are an arm's length away. \n\nTOUCH THEM.
548969
So, and in agreeing with your experiences because I find them to be true many times in this web based world, I believe the first thing is to establish right up front that two people actually have some common ground in interests. If so, then seems to me two relatively intelligent and mature adults should be able to sustain some kind of reasonable friendship simply based on those common interests. I'm reasonably intelligent, articulate and enjoy making new friends and finding out how the rest of the world lives and thinks. How about you ?
350108
sure!  people make the internet out like all you're going to find is pedophiles and serial rapists, but let's be honest - the internet reaches everyone in the world, including you, including your potential soulmate!  it's no more dangerous than posting ads in the newspaper, and that's been going on for hundreds of years - because it works!