Do you TRUST on LOVE ONLINE

baker14

hi all

I know... Sorry for posting this here,but it is the best web where i can find high numbers of players.

i just wanna know if u ppl trust on love online or not ,or u do but depends in the person that u talking to.

Forgive me for posting this here.

and please give me some answers.

Eichenkatze

What exactly do you mean Baker?

Do you mean, do people believe in falling in love online?

baker14

yes that what i mean. it happens to me (really)

but the worst thing is when u talking to guy pretended to be a girl but he is a male and he begin toi fuck up with u

Renith

Hmmh well sure that can happen ( it never happend to me tho). I actually have a friend who had that with a girl. I prefer to meet a girl irl at spots like school, parties, work etc. People you meet online don't live close to your home most of the times so..

CaesarsGhost

I know people who met in things like EQ or WoW (or a forum I previously managed) and fell in love and moved across country to be with said person.  I've grown quite fond of several females I've met online... only two of which I'd consider traveling to meet.

 

I think you should play it a bit cool though, if in a year or 2 you still feel that way then it might be something more concrete.  But it's "easier" to fall in love online, then in person.

Thoven

 

Like the guy says, play it cool.  Get to know over time and see where it takes you.  The only thing I would say is try to initiate some kine of voice chat before you let yourself fall too far.

I found a girl online two years ago in WoW.  She lives in Texas and I in the UK.  We chatted online and Skyped for months and months.  I visited her three times and we seemed perfect for each other.  We fell so far that we, well she, decided that I was going to move to Texas to be with her, which I did.  I had a good job in telecomms, my own house and two cats.  I left them all for this expedition into the unknown that lasted exactly two weeks.  I'm now back in the UK and fortunately met a girl who I knew before my expedition, who was so taken with a hopeless romantic that we got together and have been ever since.

Lets just say that the person you know online can be far removed from the person in real life.  If you want it, go and get it, but protect yourself and be more sensible than I!

ChrisMattern

I don't know this "Love Online". Who publishes it?

Chris Mattern

Czzarre

Although anything is possible,

I would say no.

Torrential

AkaJetson

sharing my emotions and feeling on a game with someone i have never seen before in real life isnt my favourite thing...

Slanger

Originally posted by AkaJetson


sharing my emotions and feeling on a game with someone i have never seen before in real life isnt my favourite thing...

Yeah, thats what myspace is for....

You can roleplay "love" in game, but unless you talk to the person IRL and know what they look like then no! You are just in love with the toon! Which odds are it's another guy! This reminds me of that thread someone posted about "Why do guys play Girl toons" Did you have a bad cyber experience where when it was over the other person got on Team Speak and said in a deep voice "U juz gotz pwnd!"

0k21

My sort of policy when it comes to talking to girls on the internet or anyone really is this... As long as they are willing to talk to me on MSN and just talk to me normally about their life through voice or webcam I consider them trustworthy, it's usually very easy to tell whether someone's screwing around with you because they'll either desperately try to keep their identity secret and avoid having any real conversation with you or they refuse to give out their MSN or some other form of contact.

I suppose the same works with forum trolls on the internet if you look around, usually they're people who just post the same thing over and keep nearly all forms of identification hidden, but then again we're talking about trust here

Sundiego

How can you love someone without really meeting them? For all you know that "hott gurl" can be a 40 year old truck driver in Ohio. You need to hang out and talk before you fall in love. Nothing over the internet is true until proven so.

DCTitan

When I was in the Air Force I had a room-mate  who met his future wife playing a MUD called Federation.  One day he told me that he was flying to California to meet her and hang out with her for a week.  When he came back he told me he was getting married and a week later she arrived with her rat's (kids) in tow (which pissed me off as she and her rats were living in my townhouse).  One week after that they were married and on their way to Japan (he had orders so he was in a hurry to meet / marry her).  I never saw / talked to him since that time frame so not sure how it worked out for him. 

MacScarfe

Married a girl i met on a MUSH, that was 5 years ago, we have a child on the way and i've moved countries.

Never been happier .......

we don't play on the MUSH anymore though

Symone

I met my boyfriend in WOW, lol ...we were both "hardcore" players at the time. We've lived together for a year and a half now.

 

I would say I pretty much fell for him before we even met. We'd spend hours and hours a day talking together on Skype aside from playing games.

He came from California to live with me in BC Canada. When he came up it was originally for a month to camp and tour western Canada but he ended up staying ever since.

I met a lot of people i talk to all the time in games, they are just people too. I don;t get why some people are so against meeting people online, i mean it's a hobby like any other, i meet people while skiing, walking etc also.One of my friends even came from the UK to visit one summer.

Another guy we always game with lives in New Zealand and we'd seriously consider traveling there to meet and see the sites in NZ.

Godliest

No. It's easy to pretend that you are someone you're not on the internet. Many people pretend that they are someone else and well, meeting them in real life may prove quite shocking. I'd say I would prefer meeting them in IRL before I stated it was love.

CactusmanX

I haven't love for anyone in the "real" world, much less in a "fake" enviroment like the internet, be it a game or otherwise.  I don't think too highly of that emotion, it is more an addiction that anything, so needless to say I am not romantic in any sense, it is primative in my opinion, like superstition.  Respect however is a noble thing to hold for someone, that I can develope in "real" life and the internet.

From a pratical standpoint, with as easy it is to fake anything on the internet I find it hard to believe that anyone other than hopeless romantics would claim they are in love with someone they only know online.  You would have to be emotionally flighty to do that, you know the type that loves someone new every week.

 

I use the terms in " " because technically the internet is real, just not in the physical sense.

Disc2000

It is just like any other kind of situation and depends on the individual.My sister is going to marry a guy  whom she met on the internet.

grimboj

Originally posted by baker14


yes that what i mean. it happens to me (really)
but the worst thing is when u talking to guy pretended to be a girl but he is a male and he begin toi fuck up with u

Internet relationships just seem like a permanent risk. Any girl can look hot from the right angle and be lying about her age, existing bf? The list goes on.

Personally I'd recommend meeting the person ASAP but then if youre very young a quick meeting is exactly what a sexual offender would want.

If the person is lying then meeting up is the last thing they want but if its not an option I'd definitely move to phone calls very quickly so atleast you get the tone of their voice and they cant retype something that doesnt come out right. In my day phone calls were expensive but nowadays free call packages are as standard.

Not to patronise but I'd be careful if you lack the wisdom of age i.e. Dont start chatting to someone caus you think their character looks hot.

Rikimaru_X

It could happen, but I really can't see it when you haven't moved from online to the cellphone. I wouldn't say I trust it much though. It would take time and love takes time and in order for love to happen you need to listen. I'd say you can find out exactly on the phone or somthin, but your not gonna find love straight off the bat online.

EDIT

I wouldn't go lookin for love on the internet though. That really says somthin about your social life.