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who thinks meeting people online is immoral??

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Lifer
I was listening to the radio this morning, and someone was talking about how it was unmoral to meet people online, and to fall in love. Last year when I chatted on DALnet a lot, I met this really cute girl that lived in the same state as me, just a couple hours away. That whole thing trailed off quite a while ago, but it was good while it lasted.

I was just wondering if any of you agreed with that, and why??

EDIT: I think meeting people online is fine, just wanted to know if anybody else's view was this way.
 
how can it be unmoral? i've been going out with my gf for 8 months online now, but i'm gonna have to start walking right now if i want to see her before summer 😛

edit: shouldn't that be immoral? i don't know if unmoral is a word or not 😉
 
How could it be "unmoral?" How is it any different from any other form of communication? Is it "unmoral" for people to get to know one another via pen & paper? Telephone? How the relationship is established or maintained is meaningless, it's still a relationship.

Of course I might be a little biased.

Only 11 more days.

🙂

Viper GTS
 
Is it immoral for a blind person to love someone they can't see? Or a deaf person to love someone they can't hear? What's the differnce?
 
I think somebody thought he was hooking up with a F/Age 18/36-24-36

Ended up with a M/Age 42/Waist 46"
 
Well it might me immoral for you if, say you're 14/M, then meet what you thought was the girl of your dreams, 14/F, but turns out to be 50/M. What a pleasant suprise that would be, eh?

Personally I never really got into online relationships, you don't know who/what is on the other end
 
I agree with BoberFett. Although I don't think it is immoral, I guess I don't understand why you wouldn't want to go out and meet people face to face. But then, "different strokes for different folks". 🙂 (No pun intended 🙂 )
 
It is not immoral, it is a tad weird, but getting a bit less so. There is a local company "affection connection" and I've commeted to my girlfriend that if we were not together that I would possibly use one, because it really takes a lot of effort and annoyance, time and money out of meeting somebody. You can pick and then not waste time on somebody who really is no good match for you. Hopefully this will never have to happen as I'm now engaged but I'm developing less of an opinion of weirdness to people who hook up on the net.
 
the only thing immoral about an online relationship is if you're already involved in another relationship.

BTW Ariel, you know better than to say something like this "different strokes for different folks" at the AT OT forum 😉
 
XeonTux, the person who lies may be immoral, but that could happen in a personal add in the paper as well. The actual ability to meet people online itself is not immoral.

As others have said, it's not for everyone, but they are no means immoral for doing it.
 
Nothing wrong with it all. It would be odd to establish a relationship that way though. Personally, I have 5 months to ago until we meet again 🙁
 
I dunno about the whole falling in love online thing... I know it's happened to plenty of people, but it just doesn't seem 'right' to me. Not 'right' as in moral, but right as in the proper way of doing things. Communicating online makes it so that a huge facade can be put up when talking to someone else. They'll never be able to see your facial expressions, or really understand what you're saying. No amount of 🙂 will be able to help. There is a certain personal touch that is lost when falling in love online, a certain part of the relationship that will never be there, something that really can't be put into words. I really cannot see myself falling in love online, but ya never know.. I maybe lookin for love in all the wrong places nowadays..

But meeting people online to hang out with is fine.. Hell, I've met TONS of people in real life that I first met online. Probably 20 this year from my car club.. Just a bunch of guys interested in the same car that get together every now and then to hang out. One of the guys even got me a job where he works.
 
all three of what I consider my most serious relationships started as online friendships ... that blossomed into more... I'm engaged to a man I chatted online with for 3 months before agreeing to meet him the first time in real life ... once having met him in person I promptly fell in love with him and decided I was going to spend the rest of my life with him ... what is immoral about that ... the internet brought us together when we probably would have never met other wise . We've been together 2 years (as of January 8th) we are planning a future, a marriage, a family ... what could be any better?
 
What all you traditional poeple on the internet that are afraid of it.
Well, be VERY AFRAID.
ITS BAD BAD BAD, EVOL, ANTICHRIST.

Comon' its the next BIG utility. Its going to overshadow any other form of communication to date. Eventually its going to make the telephone look like childs play and make it obsolete as well.
But as with all point in history and the human race, people are afraid of change.
Go with the flow.

I met past couple GF's on irc. And the longest distance I ever maintained a relationship over was approx. 90miles.
From Buffalo,NY -> Toronto,ON. So I have the border to deal with.
Actually they were all in canada 😉
Only thing morally wrong, would be this situation which happened to my next door neighbor.
He was married with 2 kids.
And he spent ALOT of time online, and his wife finally caught on when a 2000dollar AOL bill came in.
Well it got worse from there, more high bills. And questions of WHY and WHERE is the money coming from.
Well ends up one day he confesses that he has fallen in love with the girl of his dreams on the internet and he is leaving her and the kids.
THAT is wrong.

 
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