by Anne Yo

Created on: May 21, 2009   Last Updated: May 22, 2009

Internet intimacy can truly be a reality or illusion depending on your experience as an online user. I started using the Internet in my late twenties and during that time it gave me the impression that it was more of an illusion. I was single and a high school teacher at the time and the Internet was so popular among students that it made me curious about it and tried to surf the web. I'm not really a fan of surfing the web because I mainly use the pc at home to do some paper work or things that I needed to research for school. But well, one Saturday evening, I decided to test myself if I will know how to use a free chat room. I started to enter into the category "single 20-30" but after 30 minutes of chatting, I turned off the computer. The reason why? I never enjoyed the people that were there. Since you can't tell who they were, they just type nasty things about the people whom they disliked and the things that they hated in life. There were some men who were nice at the start of the conversation but they just turned out to be very impolite after awhile. One guy even asked the color of my underwear. I found it to be disrespectful and too annoying. I gave the chat room one more visit thinking that maybe there were a few good people out there but I soon realized that I was just wasting my time so I decided that it was better for me to focus more on my work, hopefully meet my future partner offline and just stay away from the Internet.

Well, to make my story short, three years had past, I was in my early thirties, still single and still curious about online dating. Honestly, I heard a lot of negative stories than success stories about Internet dating but I still decided to give it another try and checked it out again. But after my two annoying chat experiences, I never used any of the Internet chat rooms again. I was still teaching at that time, a job that always made me feel proud of myself and busy after graduating college.This time, I tried to check about dating sites and when I typed dating sites and clicked it, to my surprise, I found so many that made me wonder which to join and register. I tried to look for trusted dating sites so I surfed the Internet again and still, there were a lot of selections to choose from. When I was able to choose one that I thought was good, I started to fill-in the things and answered the questions that was asked about myself in my dating profile and lastly, posted a picture together with my dog in it.

I was glad that

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