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Anyone who's spent a reputable time dating, or in fact any time at all knows this: There are plenty of pips and seeds out there, and more than a few full size lunatics. But now there's a whole new cutting edge frontier-online dating- and alongside it comes an exclusive set of impending hazards and downfalls. The main issue is this: In a nameless, unidentified world of online dating, any mutant can impersonate as ultra-cool. More sinister still, a sociopathic oddball can profess to be the man/woman of your dreams.

Dating online can be fun and success stories are by no means nonexistent. But online love has a distinctly diverse system to real-time-love and comes complete with an entirely different array of problems. Part of the appeal is its capability of offering a wide availability. Log on at any given time of day and you are bound to find someone to talk to.

There are millions of people online, and while practically it would be impossible to meet them all in real life; on the Internet you can meet 40 different men/women in an average evening. Multiply that by seven and you have already increased your chances on the new and somewhat enticing dating scene, not to mention opened a mixed bag of potential contenders and expanded your options in one quick click.

Since online communication is mostly unspecified, it feels very secure. You feel you can be open and truthful about what you're saying because the likelihood of meeting your online confident seems and most likely is, very slim. Or, you and others on the net can act falsely and by the power of invention, mask your most unpleasant side and expand only on your most optimistic of traits.

Online relationships proceed at mighty speeds. You don't encounter the off-putting body language or cautionary signs that may possibly occur in the flesh. Gut feeling, intuition and instinct that usually help aid you during head on communication remain flummoxed in this virtual world of anonymous inhabitants. Whereas in a real-time hour you would be lost in the depths of customary small talk, in an online one you're trading intimate aspects of your sex lives.

If you're feeling vulnerable, you're by yourself or your relationships going through a rough patch; your online companion appears more alluring. Problems begin when you no longer have the capability of distinguishing between real-time and cyber-time. Your mate becomes a tempting, magnetic desire.

You send him a photograph of yourself and he disappears into the mysterious realms

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