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Today, Topix.com had an excerpt and link to this article from South East Asia News.net titled, “Online Dating First Empowers, Then Disappoints”. [Friday, May 23, 2008]

The premise of the article is that in the online dating world people are given a false sense of reality and tend to become emotionally involved with an internet persona which usually do not match the reality of who the person is with whom they are communicating. When that realization hits, it is emotionally devastating.

Personally, I think it is a problem with people having unrealistic expectations and not using good judgment moreso than it is a problem with online dating, per se. What I have observed is that these same people also tend to jump into being emotionally involved with people they barely meet in real life or have only dated once. Those with good judgment who wait until they really know a person before becoming emotionally involved will hold true to that behavior regardless of the meeting or dating circumstances.

Today’s Question: What do YOU think about online dating and emotional devastation?

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