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"Luc The Perverse" <sll_noSpamli...@cc.usu.edu> wrote in message 
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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.

Well you can advise her,... as a friend at least
-- 
Steven Ung
The Ignorant Asian