I'm surprised you'd be skeptical of online-to-real-life relationships if you had started mucking around online before even hitting puberty. Usually the skeptics I've met are of an older generation that didn't grow up with these newfangled gadgets. While I used computers and the Internet when I was rather young, I used it mostly to play games. It seemed absurd to a kid that anyone would ever use it to date someone.
We can represent ourselves honestly or we can be misleading and even outright lie but those possibilities for deception exist even outside the online world. Exactly. The online world is full of deception just as the "real" world is. What's scary is that it's becoming harder and harder to differentiate between virtual reality and true reality.
My parents first met each other in person on the day they married. If you want to go by tradition, I would think corresponding and text messaging with someone you've never met would be second nature :) I stand corrected. That doesn't happen too often. :)
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Date: 2006-01-14 06:48 am (UTC)While I used computers and the Internet when I was rather young, I used it mostly to play games. It seemed absurd to a kid that anyone would ever use it to date someone.
We can represent ourselves honestly or we can be misleading and even outright lie but those possibilities for deception exist even outside the online world.
Exactly. The online world is full of deception just as the "real" world is. What's scary is that it's becoming harder and harder to differentiate between virtual reality and true reality.
My parents first met each other in person on the day they married. If you want to go by tradition, I would think corresponding and text messaging with someone you've never met would be second nature :)
I stand corrected. That doesn't happen too often. :)