I have a number of online-only people I consider friends, but at some point I do tend to want some form of face-to-face contact. Body language, tone of voice--these can be big.
Also perhaps because I was burned by someone who, in an almost-online-only relationship, managed to conceive an infatuation on me that led him to engage in a really scary piece of deceit. I cannot, myself, parse falling-in-love online-ly, but I learned that some people can, and do, and I've been generally wary ever since.
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Date: 2004-12-14 05:01 pm (UTC)Also perhaps because I was burned by someone who, in an almost-online-only relationship, managed to conceive an infatuation on me that led him to engage in a really scary piece of deceit. I cannot, myself, parse falling-in-love online-ly, but I learned that some people can, and do, and I've been generally wary ever since.