I can never understand these stories where people are in love with someone they met online years ago but have never met IRL. Surely if you were feeling that much for someone you'd want to meet up, and before several years went by?
I can only speak for myself, but if I met someone on the net and felt there could be partner potential there, I'd want to meet them and see if the chemistry worked in the real world too. I've known people have excellent conversation online but meet up and struggle to find anything to say to one another, and I've heard tales of meetups where both people have been as good-looking as their pics suggest, but there just wasn't any sexual chemistry between them in real life.
Same as sending large sums of money to the scammer - I can't get my head around it, but maybe the scammers are very skilled at what they do and very able to seek out vulnerable people? And they say love makes idiots of us all don't they? But again, I can see how that would work IRL - a desperately lonely person who wants a partner that badly and will suspend their disbelief and fall for obvious lies that it's real love - I can get how that sort of person would be easy to use in the real world, but not from the other side of a screen.
23 Jan 2013, 5:47 pm
