I had a similar expereince a year ago. I met this girl on AIM who lived in NY. We started by chatting on AIM constantly. And then we took the next step and called each other. We won each other over with our typing words, but you can't fool someone as easily over the phone. To put it bluntly, we were hooked. I couldn't stop talking or calling her. I bugged her constantly for pics, but she didn't have a scanner so she instead opted to mail me her pics and a letter she wrote. To this day, I still have that letter and pictures in the original envelope. Once I received them and saw what she looked like, it wasn't all taht bad, but it didn't meet my expectations, or to be politically correct, she wasn't my type. She was probably the thinnest and most curvacious woman you have ever seen, but her face is what thrwe me off. She was african-american/caucasian and her mouth took up like half her face. I'm sorry, she got those big black woman lips that so turned me off. Anywho, after that, I know it was weird but I cut off all communication with her. But being a good guy, I wasn't an ass about it, but instead wrote her a long-winded email (2 pages) about why I knew that it wouldn't work out. For heaven's sakes! She was planning to move to CA and go to school her and she was getting ready to pick up a plane ticket and go to a local jc college near me in San Diego! We even planned it down to me picking her up at the airport and what we would be wearing and what would be going through our minds. I don't know why I still remember all this, but I think that once I received that letter, reality finally hit me in the balls, HARD...I wasn't ready for this. I was a freshman in college for gosh sakes! I didn't realize I was strapping myself down like I was. I just suffer from lonliess (like a billion other amiericans) and found it in the wrong place.
Trust me guys, finding love on net is not the way to go. Although it's easier to win someone over with words first (without seeing them), you might regret it later. Well it's not for everyone is what I'm saying (at least not me).