In this day and age I think it's definitely possible to get to know someone really well over the internet. To actually fall in love though, you need to meet them in real life. |
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A lot easier in person
Easier in person (between slightly and much)
Slightly easier in person
About the same, or it depends too much on the situation, or N/A, or some other neutral stance
Slightly easier online
Easier online (between slightly and much)
A lot easier online
How well can you know someone's mind online? Do you think it's more or less possible to really know someone online than in person? Why? This can be about friendly relationships or romantic ones. Is it possible to fall in love with someone over the internet? Is it more difficult than in real life or harder? Or does it entirely depend on the situation? |
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Last edited by Dianeva; 04-05-2011 at 08:57 PM.
In this day and age I think it's definitely possible to get to know someone really well over the internet. To actually fall in love though, you need to meet them in real life. |
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I think it's about the same unless you're dealing with a complete sociopath. But you can run into those IRL too. |
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To address the poll, I picked "a lot easier IRL." |
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Last edited by Raphael; 04-05-2011 at 10:45 PM.
depends on what you mean by love. To be really in love, in my opinion, you need to be with the person. Maybe it's not impossible, but it's impossible for me(I assume, online dating type stuff creeps me out a little). |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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My cousin met a girl online and they kept in touch through MSN and phone chats for a couple months. A while back he flew down to West Virginia to meet her, spent a few months at her place, and now they're married. They seem really happy together so I'd say it's possible to fall in love and develop a meaningful relationship with someone over the web. |
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Last edited by GavinGill; 04-06-2011 at 09:57 AM.
I put about the same, and I do think it really depends on the situation. It can be really hard or really easy to learn about someone in real life, and the same applies to online. It really depends on what you are doing, but I think the opportunity is there to learn about people either way. |
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I'd say that it's harder to get to know someone online, but that it's easier to meet people you like. There are just soooooo many people on the internet and they're all separated in nice specific groups (whether it be forums or whatever), so it's really easy to meet like-minded people that are easy to get along with. This might give the appearance that it's easy to get to know somebody online. |
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questions like this depend entirely on the person |
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Reading some of the responses, it's occurred to me that it would be easier in real life for people who know how to conduct themselves socially, how to express what they want with their bodies and facial expressions. I'm terrible at it, or I used to be. I hadn't learned how to control my facial expressions or body language very well, so I couldn't get what I wanted to get across. But I had learned to control what I wanted to get across through text. |
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Last edited by Dianeva; 04-06-2011 at 03:16 AM.
Interacting through text is just showing another side of yourself. Just as body language and talking do. Or art or music or whatever. |
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Most people do not know what "Know a person." A person is not their body. Plato did a dialog on this. Alcibiades I. |
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Last edited by Philosopher8659; 04-06-2011 at 06:28 PM.
I prefer forums such as this one. I don't think very quickly and I can take my time replying. |
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