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Re: Update » Susan J

Posted by tealady on December 15, 2003, at 4:30:06

In reply to Update, posted by Susan J on December 14, 2003, at 12:47:06

> Well, he also said he'd be going out of town for work so he couldn't *meet* me this weekend....and I happen to know that he's still in DC.
>
> So, even *if* there are reasonable explanations, it's way too confusing, covert, and plain *unavailable* for my taste....
>
> S.

agree.
The net is strange in that some people act as a game, no?..or at least not as they would in "real" life.
Personally I would have thought the net would be the modern day equivalent of penpals...or meeting by writing letters. There were in the old days many life long freindships established in that way. But it doesn't appear to the same.
Perhaps the anonymity of the net allows people to just "act" characters they imagine they are. Or to not realise they are really corresponding with real people not perhaps only someone else's "game"(which it could just as likely be).

I tried "looking" at internet dating about 5 years ago..but couldn't commit to meeting anyone I didn't really know..so it got to being emailed photos and that was about it <g>. I never emailed anyone back. Maybe I didn't like any of the photos or descriptions enough? I don't know.
You know, my Mum and Dad met thru mail..my Mum was on the front cover as the Pix/People ..sounds "bad" these days ..but in those days it was a small black one piece swimsuit.
My Dad was on a ship in the navy and a lot of the guys decided to write to her including their photos(someone on the ship must have had the mag)....
My Mum and her girlfriend liked my father's..I guess he was pretty muscley as he was the champion boxer in the navy for his weight and fairly good looking..
So is this the precursor of internet dating?
Perhaps writing letters requires a commitment up front at least to real addresses, real ID's etc ..and the internet doesn't, I don't know.


Good luck and cheer up

Jan


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