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"MuuMiMan" <ihatespamandyoumustremov...@mbnet.fi> wrote 
in message news:dveg92tt0dc2k4r73vjkm08r93ih88kff6@4ax.com...
> Har, no.
> It's just that "internet boy/girlfriends" and long-distance
> relationships are for most of the part a doomed and venture and people
> usually engaging in such... well, it's a certain breed for most of the
> part. Call it having both heard and seen too many such stories and
> perhaps even some personal experience from good'ol teenage years, but
> it's become a rather red flag for me :p
>
> Personally I'm of the opinion that you can not get to know someone for
> real through just the interweb/phone and perhaps even meeting a few
> times. It takes time and more over, real face to face social
> interaction. And no, this is not only because some people like to wear
> masks while on the interwebs
>
> But I guess that's moot now that she's actually moving to the guy, so
> only thing left to see is how well interweb personalities mingle in
> real life once the reality of day-to-day life hits - sometimes it can
> be rather ugly.
>
> That's not to say it can't be successful - I have a friend who met her
> boyfriend through an internet chat for a radio channel (harharhar) and
> she lived 500 km from the guy at that time. Chatted/phoned a lot, met
> a few times, and then finally moved here after half a year or so (to
> her own apartment, though) of initial contact, and they've been
> together ever since... ~5 years and counting, And engaged for 2 of
> those. Of course she'd had to move out of the boonies anyway at some
> point sooner or later in order to study, so I guess it was despite all
> the logical choice to make.
> Happy end for sure, but in my experience stories like that are way
> more the exception than the rule.

It may fail - but I am not going to judge her in her decision.    Just let 
happen what happens.

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LTP

:)