Internet relationships

United States
January 22, 2007 12:37pm CST
Can you really *know* someone whom you have never met in real life but have only talked to online through chat and/or emails? This goes for friendships as well as romantic relationships.
6 responses
• India
22 Jan 07
yes its good when u talk about making friends but when u talk about life marriage,love relationships i dont think its good .inspite of we feel good n we share any thing because the other person is not sitting in front of us thats is why most of the people think its good .and i m not denying this fact but the possibility is that a person can cheat u because u didnt see him u didnt talk to him orally u dont know him so plzzz do not do any thing with out any proof
• United States
22 Jan 07
No i dont believe in online relationships. I think that you need to be physically attracted to then same as mentally. You may think you know them but everyone acts different in person.. I think you can have friends online that you never meet but i think that is as far as it should ever go.
@uaccou (35)
• Italy
22 Jan 07
You can know it, but not enough. I had a romantic relationship some years ago, started on a chat room. Growing up and the distance (about700km) destroyed everything... He betrayed me. Many times. I discovered that thank to his computer. Computer bless new loves and destroyes old ones. Let them start and then cuts them. But it worths. I growed up a lot, even if not everyone is as lucky as I was that time...Think hundred of times before meet anyone known here or anywhere else on the Net: be responsible, please!
@Darkwing (21583)
22 Jan 07
I think you can, if you go into it with your eyes open and are not blinded by physical attraction. The secret is to ask questions, present situations and then analyse what transpires. I agree, it's very easy to be somebody you're not, online, and for people to be mislead, but sooner or later the false guard comes down and they reveal who they really are. I just use my instincts and really delve to find out who these people are inside, with the result that I have dropped many would-be friends whom I think are false and found some very good, loyal friends, whom I would trust implicitly. I try to meet some of them, and so far, have met only three, but I trust the rest, and will attempt to meet more when I can arrange something. If you have the ability to grade people's personalities and know when they're being false, you'll be ok. Just be careful.
@vityota (878)
• India
22 Jan 07
no you can never know the person only by chatting or mailing and specially in romantic relationships.. they will be romantic with you and with others also and i have faced and what i did was created a fake id and chatted with the guy and came to know he speaks the same way to all his friends so beware and careful
@as2006 (5040)
• Israel
22 Jan 07
No I did not know, but if we can read about our profiles to see our photos to resd what we write in that situacion we know with whom we deal.About romantic relationship that is more personal and need to meet each ather. In that situacion the chat is not enugh.