Internet dating: Would you or would you not?
By JJN2008
@JJN2008 (18)
December 20, 2008 5:53pm CST
I know a wonderful couple who actually met and developed their relationship online - long before they met face to face. They have been married now for over ten years and have a couple of beautiful children. They are touching other people's lives positively.
My question to you: Would you or would you not? Have you? Internet dating, I mean.
Peace.
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3 responses
@Khayam (346)
• Romania
21 Dec 08
Internet dating is a Russian Roulette. Beyond each amazing love story shaped in the virtual environment there are 10 dramas no one speaks about. Internet dating can be good or bad, it simply depends on a person's system of values, on his/her needs, on his/her availability to take on risks.
Although I've done it several times, all I can say is that before you decide to move on with this you should remember a few things:
Internet is:
1) the cheapest form of aestetic surgery
2) the most propitious climate for personality mutations to occur
3) the simplest way for shaping a different truth.
Ah, and if you are a guy... remember also this: On Internet, no one is female until proven:-)
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@JJN2008 (18)
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22 Dec 08
Khayam, that's funny. And it is true that there are more mishaps than matches made in heaven as far as internet dating goes. I've heard of stories where people so 'fall in love' that money exchanges hands (or I should say, bank accounts) without the would be couple actually meeting. In the end, it turns out that their love interest was not what the claimed to be. In that case, it is clear that the persons that lie do it for money. But in other cases, why would people fudge things about themeselves if they know that at some point, if they met, their lies would be uncovered?
When you dated over the internet, did you use social network sites dedicated to that? Or was it through less structured means?
@JJN2008 (18)
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22 Dec 08
But here's the thing, sanuanu: in responding to me you are talking with a stranger, as we've not met before. But I suppose simply commenting to a discussion is different than 'dating' over the net.
What about dating over facebook (which it seems to me is more revealing of people's personal details than myLot). Perhaps a friend recommended a friend of theirs to you, thinking that you would be a great match...?
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@keith12345 (164)
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21 Dec 08
I do not think that i could ever think of doing this, i think that in real life i would never try to get a date through the Internet but some people think that this is a great way to make a new girlfriend, for me i like the girl up the road not the girl at the other end of the road, thanks
@JJN2008 (18)
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22 Dec 08
Keith, same question to you: What if someone you knew recommended a friend of theirs to you (that you did not know) and the only way to follow this up initially is through the I-net?
But certainly, the internet is a great way to develop a relationship with someone you have met before (face to face) if distance becomes an issue (i.e. the person goes off to school in another country for a while or their job moves them overseas or to another part of the country). Wouldn't you say so?
