Ah... online...
Reading something from a person where online relationships were mentioned quite negatively, was remembering how a friend of mine tried to scold me saying that the reason I had been married to an abuser was because I had met the guy online. Ironically, when I joined a group of girls who had undergone abuse by their partners, had they all met their guys online? Nope. I was the only one! Oh my! How can that be? Heh. Truth is that abusers can be met anywhere. Most girls in the group had met their abusive boyfriends in Uni, others at work, others at pubs, other at church, and the list goes on. And like I mentioned before, I was the only one in the group who had met her abusive partner online first.
I remember my friend was shocked when I told him about the group. He had to admit I was right. In the online world, you can meet good people and bad people just like in regular surroundings. You can meet a psycho online just like you can meet a psycho at your workplace. You can meet a jerk online and you can also meet a jerk in your church. Such is life. Yet many people keep trying to say that the person will turn out to be bad if you met him or her online. Why can't they say the person might turn out to be bad when you met him/her in a club? *rolls eyes*
Meeting a person online can be as dangerous or as non dangerous as meeting anyone anywhere. In fact, the person you met online can only become dangerous the moment you meet him/her in real life. If the person is in Russia and you are in Australia, I don't see much of a danger. Well, unless you get involved with that person and decide to meet. In that sense, the risk doesn't lie in meeting the person online, but meeting the person offline. Of course, in those situations, one has to follow instincts and make sure he/she is not alone when meeting a new person. The same occurs if you've met a person in a pub, You take a risk if you decide to leave with that person, just like that.
Sometimes, I think one has to be wary of everyone one meets. Recently, I was told of a woman who pretended to be very Christian. She was a supervisor in a store and whenever trucks came to the store with new merchandise, she stole things from the merchandise. The lady was always telling everyone: "God bless you" and all. She was a thief. lol
There will always be good people and bad people. That will be anywhere and everywhere. You choose what to do. You choose who to hang out with. But please, I hope no one else gives me the crap of stating that all the people you meet online are the real psychos and bad people out there. Have those people who say those things have thought of the fact that they're also people others have met online? Would they enjoy being labeled as psychos? You know what's the funniest part? One of the guys who told me my main mistake had been meeting my ex online also met his wife online first. LOL
I remember my friend was shocked when I told him about the group. He had to admit I was right. In the online world, you can meet good people and bad people just like in regular surroundings. You can meet a psycho online just like you can meet a psycho at your workplace. You can meet a jerk online and you can also meet a jerk in your church. Such is life. Yet many people keep trying to say that the person will turn out to be bad if you met him or her online. Why can't they say the person might turn out to be bad when you met him/her in a club? *rolls eyes*
Meeting a person online can be as dangerous or as non dangerous as meeting anyone anywhere. In fact, the person you met online can only become dangerous the moment you meet him/her in real life. If the person is in Russia and you are in Australia, I don't see much of a danger. Well, unless you get involved with that person and decide to meet. In that sense, the risk doesn't lie in meeting the person online, but meeting the person offline. Of course, in those situations, one has to follow instincts and make sure he/she is not alone when meeting a new person. The same occurs if you've met a person in a pub, You take a risk if you decide to leave with that person, just like that.
Sometimes, I think one has to be wary of everyone one meets. Recently, I was told of a woman who pretended to be very Christian. She was a supervisor in a store and whenever trucks came to the store with new merchandise, she stole things from the merchandise. The lady was always telling everyone: "God bless you" and all. She was a thief. lol
There will always be good people and bad people. That will be anywhere and everywhere. You choose what to do. You choose who to hang out with. But please, I hope no one else gives me the crap of stating that all the people you meet online are the real psychos and bad people out there. Have those people who say those things have thought of the fact that they're also people others have met online? Would they enjoy being labeled as psychos? You know what's the funniest part? One of the guys who told me my main mistake had been meeting my ex online also met his wife online first. LOL