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OKay, so I have been in this virtual reality for about 3 years now.... is there a real difference in how people approach relationships through written conversation, or real life conversation>?


What I mean by this is a miss-representation regarding an aspect of appearance, intellect, or ANYTHING involving reality.

I have met a few people and gotten involved with a couple, as time wears on as you get to know someone it is not about what you first thought they were.

Do you feel that this is a safe, or more dangerous method of meeting people?



What lies have you been told? For me it is not a big deal either way, but I am who I am, and it is always a disappointment when someone is not upfront and honest about who they are.

Why be afraid, rejection is just rejection as it would be in the real world! I take every person as they are and I alwasy feel I am making a friend, and not "THE ONE".

Mantra repeat - 70% of communication is non-verbal...repeat, NON-VERBAL!

To get to know somebody to any degree of accuracy, meeting them is important so as to be able to observe the various aspects of body language, and to check out her delightful boobage, but we won't expand on that right now.

It's all to easy to construct a web personality...there are several on this site...easy to spot. And people do fall for their speil...and get hurt before they realise who it really is they're dealing with.

Got to be SO careful.

Meet them as soon as possible says I!

I have been lucky. The people I have dated have been even more than what they were online.

Real life dating has got to be better ultimately, contact is important, it is nice to get to know a little bit more about the person first though.. often real life situations can be overclouded by the phyisical aspect...ideally real life though

Sure there is a huge difference.....there's no eye contact on the net......and it makes all the difference.

well duh Wall you dont have eyes

What is a date?

Don't need eyes.............I SEE THROUGH PEOPLE.

Well, I feel this is definitely a quicker way of meeting people. In real life, I'd have to get dressed up, drive to town, sit at some cafe and talk, just to find out we have nothing in common? (and the initial attraction to their looks/eyes/smile was very misleading?) And I couldn't leave immediately after I realized it was a waste of time either, could I? I'm not really sure how real life "dating" is done with complete strangers, I've mostly ever met new people through my hobby, work or studies, and mostly either I was not looking for a relationship, or they were "taken".

Whereas this here is a quick way of digging through hundreds of profiles, just to find some that sound interesting and catch your attention, and then after one chat one can pretty much tell whether it can be continued or not. I firmly believe that if you have nothing to talk about online, you'll have nothing to talk about in person, and this just happens to be one of the main points of even looking for someone (for me).

I do realize that somebody I might be chatting with, might just be passing time on a dating site waiting for his wife to cook dinner, but sooner or later that will come in the open, no doubt about it.

OK, I'm off to resume digging! donning working gloves and picking up the shovel