Is it possible to actually fall in love over the Internet?

Answer 1

God yes!!
His first phone call will make your heart melt, and you will sound totally stupid.

Answer 2

I think it is possible to meet the one you will fall in love with over the internet but you can't fall in love over the internet. Unless you are in love with the internet. HA

But certainly it is a way to connect people who will have relationships together. It's the "middle man" if you will.

Answer 3

i think you can fall in love with the possibility of falling in love. but i absolutely think relationships that started from the internet can work out. i recommend you both meet in person to know for sure.

Answer 4

Once again Milkbone makes an excellent point (why is it he has all the answers?!).

A word to the wise: be safe out there. If you do meet someone in person who you've met online, be sure you meet in a public place, let at least one person know where you are going, and trust your instincts. No where is it written that you have to follow through with the meeting if you get strange vibes.

Answer 5

Sure it is. My last relationship started over the internet. We spent six years together. Granted, in the end it didn't work out, but neither did any of the ones I had before where I met the person face to face.

Answer 6

Sure it is. The only difference is you can meet people away from where you live.

I'll cut and paste my own answer here (because it's relevant and because I'm stinking lazy):

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiTFsQ5CAAO.az85c70q6zjsy6IX?qid=20070128001549AAWIJLn&show=7#profile-info-48584e41c3755c58325aab9fac0133baaa

In the 18th and 19th centuries, many people were introduced to others by mutual friends who travelled. In some well known cases where their letters still exist, long distance romances blossomed by letters alone. They fell in love and chose to marry without _ever_ seeing each other's faces through the courtship and romance.

I don't see any difference between that and online dating. What's wrong with meeting someone by words alone and judging them by their intelligence, by how they talk to you, and not on their face or physical appearance?

Twenty years ago (I'm showing my age now) "want ad" dating was for the desperate, but then, twenty years ago, people had more free time and commuted less. Today, the lack of personal time and the extra distance means less chance to socialize.

Online dating is especially useful in big cities where it's hard to meet people or in countries where arranged marriages and introductions were common. I have lived in several Asian countries where matchmakers (sometimes paid and sometimes not) would introduce "suitable" young people to other potential spouses. Such arrangements used to be common.

If you watched the first season of the TV show "Lost", that is what happened between Sun and the bald Korean man (in the flashback). It's still common today. I lived there for three years and worked with several women who were married through such arrangements. More and more young Koreans are doing it on their own through dating sites, and the older generation approves of it.

For people who live in foreign countries (I and other westerners I know, for example) online dating is a good way to make friends, not just find love and marriage. You can meet other foreigners who live in the country, or you can find the locals who speak your language without having to wade through the bar scene amongst hundreds you can't talk to. I haven't found anyone worth marrying, but I have met people I continue to be friends with.

What matters is how one approaches online dating, because it's exactly the same as meeting people in person. If you're desperate offline, you'll be desperate online. If you're outgoing, friendly and attractive to others offline, you'll be outgoing, friendly and attractive to people online.

If your purpose in online dating is to save time (eg. you have long working hours) and weed out people by traits (eg. I'm an atheist and don't want to meet christians), then it's useful. If your purpose is to hide something else about yourself, it's not going to work.


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Answer 7

it depends on who the person is. if the person has nothing to do during the day but play around on the computer, then yea...THEY can fall in love.

but me, I'm not a kind of person who likes to find love on the Internet. so its a 'no' for me.

Answer 8

Of course yes. You fall in love with a personality. The best you can hope for with a body alone is lust.

Answer 9

I guess it could be but you have to be careful ab out it. The problem with the internet is that no one is really who they say they are. You could get rapped into believing you are in love with something that does not exist. I think it is always better to be with someone you really know not someone you think you know.

Answer 10

I believe the answer to this is yes. It has damaged many relationships as well. But I do believe in love throught the internet.

Answer 11

Yes its possible. Providing that the pheremones are right, when you actually meet then it blossoms into even more -- but its possible. Your heart hurts when he isn't online, you are afraid he doesn't love you back. You daydream about him... Sure is possible.

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