Instablogs - Mobile - Online love is often blind and brief: Study

Matches made over the Internet often do not last because people end up choosing unsuitable partners and forming emotional bonds before meeting face-to-face, an Australian university researcher has found.Women were especially susceptible to finding Mr. Wrong, as they tend to be attracted by witty comments or clever emails, said psychologist Matthew Bambling from the Queensland University of Technology.

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Mayuri Majumdar

Well, I do not agree to the title. I have seen some relationships which have sprung from the internet and leaded to marriage. I guess we cannot assume something just on the basis of research and study. Even my best friend is my net friend. Its a different thing that he is no longer my ”net”friend.Its a matter of luck as well.

Anwesha

without generalizing, i guess we can say that making serious friendships over the net often involves a lot of risk. the very fact that it is the ’web’ should be enought o warn you that it might be a trap. people might come across as completely different personalities on the net than they actually are. some weirdos actually pretend to belong to fictitious age groups, community, even sex! worse, stories of fraudulence, kidnaps and other crimes have often been associated with online ’friendships’. however, at the same time, as Mayuri points out, the lucky ones have found good matches and friends over the net. thus, it’d probably suffice to say that one needs to be extra carefula nd remain on one’s guard while committing to online relationships.

Bijoy

I guess its something like a knife !! It all depends how you use it.... for self-defence or for taking someone’s life !

Alpheus

@ Anwesha

Fraudulence, kidnaps and other crimes have been associated not just with online friendships. There have been cases where people make friends in college, go out with them and get conned. I have come across ’real-life’ pretentious blokes who cooked up stories about their past. You will have to be careful about any relationship you commit to, regardless of whether it is online or real-life.

Anwesha

u r right Alpheus. but since in online relationships, u cant see the person, u gotto be extra careful. when u meet a person on a day-to-day basis, or frequently, u can see for yourself how they behave, whether they seem to possess more moolah than is natural, the kind of people they hang around with, things like that. but in online r’ships, your knowledge about the person depends entirely on what he/she allows u to know. yes, even then, in real r’ships, people do get conned. but the possibility increases many times more in online r’ships.

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