Yeah it is just a tool, but I think there are differences between it and the real world that should make you a bit more wary before diving headfirst into it.
Having been an internerd since 94, I've had a fair bit of experience meeting people from the net. There *is* a big difference between starting a friendship/relationship with someone in the flesh and starting a friendship/relationship with someone online.
In the flesh, it's a lot easier to sus out dodgy fuckers and it's almost as though people are forced to be more "real" with you. Maybe this is because you've got all the body language, which makes up a massive percentage of how we communicate.
Online, it's so easy for people to "play a role" or be something they're not. Or, conversely, to construct an "image" of their e-love that may not necessarily be true.
Plus, emotions and behaviours tend to be amplified online. It's much easier to type emotion-filled text and send it out to a faceless ether, or to some e-Lothario that you've painted up to be something they're not. So I think that perhaps people sometimes get tricked by "being in love with the idea of being in love" as opposed to "being in love".
Anyway. It's not true love until you're comfortable enough to fart around one another. So love's impossible on the net
