Hector wrote:
I had a pretty bad experience with someone on a message board, where she appeared to be interested in me, but right when we were about to meet up she turned around and decided to enter a relationship with someone else on the same board. That was about 15 months ago and they're still together. I don't think I could manage a long-distance internet relationship for the foreseeable future; I'd have too many trust issues, in light of the earlier incident.
Look for ways to meet people online who live in your area, like online social networks or intant messaging programs. Some have search options by region, gender, interests, etc. I met several women online who all liived at 100 km or less from where I lived and this led several times to a normal real life relationship.
Hector wrote:
The dryness of online communication turned out to be a double-edged sword: I appeared to benefit from a straightforward and easy means of communication, but I also was unable to read anyone and later realised that certain people I thought I knew very well I actually didn't know at all.
You can't have it all....