The Downsides of Online Dating - Exhibit A

[Gooseberry]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...ehehe! XD *gasps for air*

[Lady Macbeth]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...ehehe! XD *gasps for air*

That was pretty much my reaction. I love tabloids, especially when they run a great story like this that's entirely plausible.

[ssj2gohan61]

hahahaha sorry that would just be embarrassing... i tried online dating but in the end we broke up cause i guess we finally grown up and realized that it probably wouldnt've worked anyways

[TallHobbit86]

In my experience, people never turn out the way they seem on-line. Even if an on-line dater or something is totally honest, someone's personality when they type is often so different from how they seem in real life. The story that started this thread is hilarious, though. I bet if it really did happen, everyone involved may have actually changed for the better....or maybe I'm just being optimistic.

[Heart of Sword]

In my experience, people never turn out the way they seem on-line.

Not necessarily...I know a few people who are on here...Sparten1056, Wingzero22 and Oro are the same online and offline.

And online relationships do work out sometimes, it's just rare and not exactly recommended. There are definitely rare cases of everything working out. I hope it does for me!!! SSJ, are you suggesting that people who date someone they met online are immature? It kinda sounds that way.

Anyway, is that story really true? I'm wondering now if it's made up or something. Either way it's hilarious. Reminds me of the time I saw a tabloid magazine with a header on the front that said George W. Bush had befriended aliens who helped him win the election by rigging it. XDDD

[TallHobbit86]

Not necessarily...I know a few people who are on here...Sparten1056, Wingzero22 and Oro are the same online and offline.

You're probably right. I'm sure there are people who are the exact same online and offline. I was just talking from my own experience. Some people act differently just because they're more comfortable in one of the two means of communication.

[~Natsumi Lam~]

hahaah that is what you call a real inbreeder hahah.


~NL~

[christianfriend]

You're probably right. I'm sure there are people who are the exact same online and offline. I was just talking from my own experience. Some people act differently just because they're more comfortable in one of the two means of communication.

thats pretty much true for me..im pretty shy when first meeting people in real life, but on da internet im the opposite!..But im the same around close friends..online or offline..im pretty crazy @_@

[ssj2gohan61]

no heart of sword im not suggesting that they are immature its just that i was speaking for ourselves, we just got so caught up in the feeling of being in love with eachother and there were things that would prevent it from working and through the whole time we just sorta ignored them until they started catching up with us and we realized it wouldnt work..sorry for those that took it that way

[uc pseudonym]

The fact that it was from Weekly World News removed a lot of the humor value for me. It is plausible, yes, but if it isn't real it simply isn't the same. However, I would imagine that at least vaguely similar situations have occured.

In my experience, people never turn out the way they seem on-line.

Just to add my experience, those persons I have met online first and later in person have all seemed the same to me (obviously taking the difference in mediums of communication into account). Of course, I rarely use venues of the internet in which people are inclined to put up a false front.

[Erin]

EWW!! that's just sick and wrong man!

[freerock1]

Obviously not a good situation if it is true. But it is more evidence to the theory that a lot of guys want a girl that reminds them of their mom.

[shooraijin]

Well, you know the song -- o/~ I want a girl, just like the girl, that married dear old Dad! o/~

[Jasdero]

Oh, gosh. That's gross... Yet funny. But mostly gross.