writing penpals, earning money --- sounds familiar? what have you observed?

i heard about that specially here in my country. most of the girls are from the province who wish to have a good life so they tried to marry those foreign guy inspite of the age. i mean most of the foreign guy are already old while the girls are still young but i dont want to judge them really.

It was my mother who encouraged me to have a penpal, yes I had one before from the USA and he's a manager of Kentucky Fried Chicken. At the age of 19, I started to engaged in this form of communication. In fact my best friend had been married to a Belgian doctor just by writing. The 70s-80s were a hard time for the Filipinos; so Filipino women sacrificed or let's just say gambled because they believed that by marrying a foreigner they can escaped the hardship and poverty in our country. Well until now we are still dubbed as a Third World Country; and exodus of our women rose higher with the advent of the Internet. It's kinda securing a luxurious life, yes money of course. But there are stories too that's morbid. Are you familiar with human trafficking? And the foreigner husbands insured their wives and then kill them by accident. I've heard those stories before so I stopped writing to my American friend.

i've heard a lot about pen pals from my mom and some friends. It was really famous way back when computers and internet weren't as widespread as nowadays... Mostly, like your example, they were introduced or referred by someone else.. commonly, by someone abroad... I have a neighbor here who just got married 3 months ago.. her husband was from i think philadephia or pennsylvania, i'm not really sure. But they were just introduced to one another and they simply exchanged mails and chatted... when they got engaged, the woman was granted a visa and there she went off to america.. ^_^ she's now pregnant... the very moment she reached USA, her soon-to-be-mom-in-law gave her a car.. I suppose they fell in love with each other on the process... still, i don't know how they do that... haha.. i find it kind of weird and difficult to actually form a relationship through the net, through mails or sms or the likes... good day

I have known a lot of successful stories of internet dating. I had a friend who at 37 years old never had a boyfriend. She went on a catholic dating site (she's a devout catholic) and met someone there. After being together for a year, my friend went to the US to meet him. He proposed and they got married a few years later. Now they have 3 boys, and I keep up with her in Facebook. She looks happy to me. Fortunately for me, I have not heard of horror stories about internet dating, mostly hearsay, which I don't really pay attention to.

i used to have lots of penapls when i was young(er) but not anymore.actually you asked if i knew anyone who were penpals and then got married: my parents. yes that true, my parents were penpals and met and 3 months later got married. i think thats one in a million shot and youare very lucky to find a love like this by penpalling.

I know a love story who ended up marrying each other and they only met at social networking site. I think they have a baby right now. Well, if we are talking about relationship through this kinds I think it will always depend on them. I also have a friend who is in need of financial help and she found a kind soul from US through a social networking site also who helped her and she receives a weekly allowance for her studies. Lucky her, I also wish someone will help me too even though its not weekly. But its a good thing there are still kind people in this world helping each other unconditionally. They became friends actually :)

I remember that time too that the only way to communicate was through snail mail. That is why the penpal was the fashionable way to communicate with friends from around the world. But, now it is virtually obsolete since you can always find friends online and much faster, economical and efficient. But like the old penpal method it is similar in many ways, you can find a friend and earn like in the olden days as well. The only difference is the speed one can send and communicate with one another.

We had a boarder before and she had an American penpal. I didn't know exactly how they started writing each other but there were times were she showed me the letters. They were very romantic and the guy seemed to care so much about her. They had been exchanging letters for more than a year and they had developed a relationship. The guy went here in the Philippines to meet her family . We even met him because he went to our house. He was nice, funny and very engaging to speak with. He was not really good looking based on my standards but not ugly too you know. After another year, he requested our boarder to follow him in the US and she had a fiance visa. When she arrived there in the US, they got married. After 2 years, they went back here in the Philippines to get married again and at that time they already had a 7 month old baby. For her it was like a fairytale come true.

I do not know about earning money through penpals and all such stuff. But, yes, I had penpals and I had lots and lots of them. I had from all over India and also from abroad. I had one from South Africa, Nepal, Bhutan, etc. The friend from Bhutan and Nepal were in touch with me for more than 5 years. I had one from Shillong, but sadly all these friendship were slowly lost due to time constraints from both sides. I still yearn for those days and have very fond memories. I still maintain those priceless letters they have sent.

I know a friend who was on an internet dating site for a while. She found her current boy friend there. Don't know if marrage is in the picture yet, its too soon too tell, but I do know she's very happy with him right now and they are extreamly confortable with one another.

I have a boyfriend right now and we are introduced by my professor. We've been to penpals, phone pals, then now chatting. Our relationship was not made up because I would like to get out the hardship of our country. He also didn't commit himself in me because he can no longer look as decent and respectable girl as Filipina. It was just turned out like this we never imagined. I thought that it was just in the movie that you can tell "you just wake up one morning and you are already longing for him". He is american, he is not giving me weekly allowance or montly allowance as what they say. I dont want to accept it any form of cash or cheques he is going to offer because I dont want him to think that is what I am after for or that's what our relationship is. I would like him to think that I am with him thru thick and thin. In fact we are still in the merge of decision to continue his career here in the Philippines instead in UK. I dont want to leave this country and I dont want to stay in the place that I am not known of. I feel that I am not secured in other country not because he will not protect me. But let's say he is at work and I am left alone in our house. Those are my worries. Unlike him staying here in the Philippines no one will have the nerve to get into his guts because he is tall so much tall so he could always protect himself. So I hope one day he will decide just to stay here.

I didn't writing penpal yet..but like as interesting because has found partner in this writing penpals!

yeah I know a friend, first they meet at cherryblossom dating website were women are free to register,they started chatting often times exchanging different kinds of questions, things they like and dislike, what they expect, what their dreams and aspirations in life. After two years of live chatting and calls, the guy visited in her country and stayed in their house for 21 days..before the end of 21 days the guy proposed a marriage which she accepted it because she knew him well now. So when the guy went back to his country, he processed the needed documents to petition her on a fiancee visa. While waiting for her petition the guy is sending her $200 a month for her needs. after 9 months she followed him in his country. At first, it was hard on her part because it was a totally big difference in her country, from environment to food and the people around her. so far for now, they already have one baby boy, 6 months old and they live happy together. Well, she don't have regrets because even the guy is not rich but he truly love her and their baby..

I think nowadays stories of women or even men using penpals to earn money or even gain lovers is decreasing rapidly.Well one of the main reason is because technology is pretty much fast and theres alot of multimedia access that almost everyone can use to lets say find a lover or find an extra paying job or money generating application online. But on the other hand there are still some who preffers the old ways i mean the kind of people whom like the thought of sending a letter instead of an email or even txts but these people nowadays are considered minority at least in this aspect because due to technology most of us me being one go for the faster means of getting someone special or even earning extra for my expenses ;)

hi, with the advent of internet came the social sites and emails and messengers, this made world very small and now people dont need to ask for a list..all they have to go to the browse section of a social network and can find people for themselves and hence the secrecy is more these days then before ebcause then you could have seen the postman carring money order or gifts. now They can send money from paypal and no one would know. Yes Fools still send money via post . Yes there are many love stories going on on the net but i have experienced that most people would make a fool out of you if you are not very very careful. Yes i have seen many boys and girls fall online but yet to see a sucessful union.

Hi, I know a lot of those who married over the internet, some are successful and some are not. Recently a friend's sister got married to someone over the net but they have been together for 5 years, the guy comes over all the time, 2x a year and the phone calls and email exchange. They seem to be pretty perfect for each other. All went well. I used to have penfriends back when I was in the 6th grade because we had to do that for our english class and it was fun. I'm happy to have experienced it, it's nice writing to people around the world.