Love on the Internet
By kayla_7602
@kayla_7602 (704)
Canada
February 9, 2009 10:02pm CST
So who believes that you can find love on the internet. I would have to say yes you can. i know someone who met a guy who lived in Texas, she lived in ontario canada. He came and visited her a couple times and then she moved down their and they got married! They lived happily but unfortunetly he has since passed away. But they point is they found love on the internet.
Now the answer i want to say is no. This is because i have also witnessed people meeting people online who were not at all who they betrayed themselves to be. I dont mean physically but in every other way.
I think it's kinda dangorous to meet someone online, even in person though you never really know who people are. But online it is even harder to tell, you cant read body language, and they can easily put on an act when on the computer and turn themselves into whatever they think you want them to be.
So i dont know what do you all think about people finding love online?
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16 responses
@VorTy01 (36)
• Romania
10 Feb 09
Hey there.
I can say I found love on the internet about 2 years ago by mistake. I think it's a bit risky to try to find it on the internet, but if it happens and you meet the person, things start to turn in better.
When I met her, she was an angel, just as in pictures. First thing came up in my mind was "Why doesn't she have a boyfriend ? I mean, c'mon, look at her ! And she's so cute and funny !". She loved me too and we're still together since that day.
So it is possible to find love on the internet, just that the chance to find someone who's good for you is quite low.
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@Kmarie923 (875)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I think that if both people are completely honest with each other then it is possible. However, I think that it would be pretty rare.
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@tinytankster (25)
• Canada
10 Feb 09
Hello, whats up? I am not a big believer of this. But I have heard it works great if people are being truthful. The problem is you have to watch out for the creeps. Good night and sleep well.
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@esthatika (85)
• Malaysia
10 Feb 09
I think is dangerous to meet a person that you know online, because the profile that someone's updated online might not be true. It's all up to your personal judgement about someone you know online. Even if really want to meet that someone you know online, you ought to bring some other friends along, to keep you company to reduce your risks. Never go alone, especially if you're a female.
However, I do have a friend who actually know her boyfriend online, he's in Australia while she's in Southeast Asia. He came to visit her and her family, then there spend time together & their relationship progress for a year or two. Now, they are married & have a son. Not all online romance will go bad, but it never hurts to be careful for your own safety.
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@garychie (157)
• Philippines
10 Feb 09
I am Filipina and one of those who got lucky in finding love on the Internet. I can say that i am thankful to Internet because it is where I found a great man who is now my husband. I understand about that dangerous thing you said in finding somebody to marry over the Internet. Not all are good people and not all are bad. Not all can be lucky to find someone here who is real over the internet. Some people are just scamming and just having fun. I can not be racial here because even some Filipinos are bad. I heard a story also about a Filipina scamming her foreigner boyfriend just last week. The girl is our neighbor. She only needs the guy for money, in short she is milking him. The guy finally found out and even asked my husband for advice and then in the morning the guy left. I didn't feel sorry for the scammer filipina because her kind can make other people and other race generalize our race as Scammers.
So, yes, it is real risky to find someone to love over the Internet because you cannot know the person right away just by looking at his/her picture. As for me, i met my husband last June 2006 on the Internet. We met personally on Sept. 02, 06. We had that mutual understanding but not to the extent of committing ourselves right away like getting married..there should be a process of getting to know each other before entering that very serious relationship and the process was long. So we have became bf and gf for about 6 months. He visited me again here in the Phil. on January 07 and it was when he proposed to me in front of my parents. We were engaged for a year and half and now we are married for almost 9 mos. Our relationship is getting stronger each passing day because we are not only husband and wife but also bestfriends.
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@shinkai03 (114)
• Philippines
11 Feb 09
Actually some people find love in the internet through chatting, most of them use yahoo messenger, so they can see who their chatting with.. I have experienced chatting with Indonesians through Nimbuzz Mobile Application, Now I have 3 friends in Indonesia most of them are girls, So I study Indonesian language to impressed them..
@garychie (157)
• Philippines
11 Feb 09
Hello, thanks for the comment. I met my husband from Prettypinay.com, an online dating website. Now, that website is not working anymore. I heard they changed it into preciouspinay.com. After few emails with my husband, we then decided to chat through yahoo messenger. That way, we have known each other better and saw each other on the webcam.It was really great. We started as friends of course, and that was how our love for each other started to build.
@HelScream (2822)
• Philippines
10 Feb 09
Lucky are those who have found someone to love ,lucky are those who have loved and luckier are those who are married to their love ones. Because in this lifetime alone its rarely do you found true love that last for a lifetime. I want to start my answer with this lines for I believe that we can find love in the most unexpected ways. I have worked online for sometime now. I was never looking for love or even a friend in the net. It was just a sudden event that i know her in the net not on chat rooms coz i am not into that. But what remains a question yet to be answered is, are we meant for each other. For now I cant be certain but to answer your question yes I believe that love can be found in the net as well.
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@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
10 Feb 09
Yes, I believe that love can be found everywhere. But not are successful. There are love that turned out bad. But some lasts for a lifetime. I read stories about love in internet that went successful.
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@danrunsfast614 (1396)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I don't think I could. But I do know others who have, so it is possible. Actually a girl I know is getting married to a guy she met on the net 1.5 years ago. They will be married this summer. So it can work for sure.
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@trisha_nava82 (1379)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I have to agree with you on both instances. I believe that there is a small chance that you can find love on the internet. Because there have been many people who have found love on the internet and have since gotten married and have been very happy.
Although, I believe that it is not very safe in dating someone over the internet. Because like you said, you don't know who you are talking to and what that person's intentions are.
I remember I did try the whole dating thing on the internet, but the guy that I was interested in actually was not interested in me. He was from Africa and he was looking for money to come to America and wanted someone to pay his way and to help him get to America. He and I never met, but around the time he did say all the right things that I needed to hear to make me think that he truely loved me. When it was all a scam. Till this day, that man is still trying to get back together with me, but I let him know I am on to what he is trying to do and that I no longer am interested amd that now I am married and he still tries to hook up. That there shows me that he was only using me.
I'd have to say that if you are going to date someone over the internet give it some time and take it in sections. Chat a bit over the internet, then let it lead to the phone and chat there a bit and then eventually try to meet up in a well lit and crowded place maybe do like a group date with a couple of friends and not go alone. That would only be the best way.
@TnWoman (1895)
• United States
11 Feb 09
hello kayla
believe it or not that is how that i met my hubby. lol we chatted for over a year's time before that we decided that we wanted to finally met up with each other. so we met, and it went from there. we both have our up's and down's, and we have two beautiful boys that we share together. i wouldn't want to change my life for anything in the world. so yeah, i found my true love on the internet. lol and it just happened that we liked each other and made a relationship work. my hubby and myself have been together going on thirteen years now. time flys when one enjoys themselves and also their surroundings in which that they live in.
take care and have a beautiful evening.
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I think that there is the possiblility of this working out, but it is also extremely dangerous. I have seen cases where people have found someone on-line and dated hem for a while in person, and I have sen cases where they meet on-line and one person or the other ends up being really crazy. I would suggest that anyone who wants to try it should be very cautious. Let's face it, when you meet a person on-line rather than in person, you really do not know if that person is who and what they claim to be. You may end up finding the worst nightmare of your life if you are not very careful.
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@sandymay48 (2030)
• Canada
10 Feb 09
Although it can be extremely dangerous and very heart breaking when Mr Right turns out to be Mr Wrong..It can also work as well. I have seen several failures but have also seen 3 couples that I can think of off hand, come together because of the internet. One was a man living in Sweden who chatted regularly with a girl from Ontario Canada..He came over to meet her, they dated for nearly 2 years and were later married and now have a family. Another is a couple form england, same thing, chatted met, fell in love, are now living together and purchasing their first home together. The third couple are not yet married, but well on their way
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@twignig (19)
• United States
10 Feb 09
Sure, I think someone can find love online, you just have to know what you are doing. You have to be careful. Of course there are a lot of frauds out there, but at the same time there are a lot of genuine, good people out there. You just have to know where to look.
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@jimbo88 (231)
• Indonesia
10 Feb 09
That's true mu friend. I founded my love when I was surfing on the internet. And now we still together.Internet can be easily to get relation from another person. I'm very sure about the love on the internet can make people more easy to find their love.
@ehlana88 (330)
• United States
11 Feb 09
I think finding love on the internet is like finding love anywhere. Full of frauds, danger, pain, grief, and best if done on accident. No one likes meat market bars but they exist because its a way to meet someone. You won't know until you spend time with people what type of someone you want to meet. I met my love online trick or treating on some silly website that gave you dorky little prizes for your avatar if you talked to ten random chat people that day. And we've both got the best prize out of the deal.
Did we instantly fall in love and know that this was what we wanted? No. As a matter of fact it was weeks before we even realized that we were on the phone every night for six hours.
Internet profiles are like getting ready for a date without the nose dive into a fragrance. It's about dressing yourself up nicely, being on your good behavior, and trying to appear wonderful. Then after you settle in and relax the sweatpants come out and you argue over dinner plans.
The key to any relationship is communication. When you are a long distance or meeting online communication becomes that much more important. Not just random talking either, but honest, open, painful discussions at times too.
So yes, I believe in internet love and I believe its just as challenging as bumping ur shopping cart into the one single guy in town who buys vegetables.
@tonibanzai (79)
• Indonesia
11 Feb 09
i think finding love on internet its possible just like my friend too he found love on internet. he start from chat,discussion until he visited her and now they are going to married.