Why in this day and age internet relationships are so popular in your opinion?

people have bf's , gf's only on the computer sometimes?





why and how so for this?





btw, where are you in the world?





thanks for your answers!Why in this day and age internet relationships are so popular in your opinion?
I believe this can be attributed to the way people are being lured by their interests to chatrooms or forums that allow them interaction with many common-interest groups.





Because they are normally part of a common interest community online





1) This allows more discussions. (Talk about what they enjoy)





2) This allows more understanding.(Understand what they say)





3) This allows more display of their forte (elements) in some cases. (Seeing only the good points)





One of the prime examples are relationships that are formed while playing Massively Multiiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPG) like World of Warcraft.





Hence you tend to virtually see people in their elements, therefore to some people, they tend to be more inclined to develop relationships online.





Moreover since online interaction is much easier than going up to normal strangers and asking them out, it eliminates the process of finding out common interests and actually saves time and embarrassment to some.





So basically it is popular because of the ease of knowing someone online compared to actually spending time to know someone.





However, there are some negatives about this





1) there is no physical contact and some of the emotions are not displayed. I have seen numerous relationships falter because of the lack of intimacy.





2) people are not the same online and offline and many others.





On the ending note, it's also more convenient for long distance relationships.





I am from Asia.Why in this day and age internet relationships are so popular in your opinion?
Having tried this Internet dating it works for some people but not for all. One thing that I found is that on either side people are less than economical with the truth and tend to lie about , age , looks , their past so it can be a bad experience for many. It is great to chat but then when you meet the person in the flesh your left let down because they have lied about certain things and without honesty to start off with what have you got nothing.
Im in the UK.





I've onlt had 1 LDR in my lifetime. We didn;t start out as an LDR, he live an hour away from me and we visited eachother as much as we could, then his parent moved him to Ireland. The LDR worked for around seven months, then it broke down, I tried to keep it going.. but he wasn't with me on it. So it ended. Then I found out he was cheating with the girl that introducted us.





Having a physical relationship is so much more benificial.
its the new way of dating, people dont have time to talk to others anymore, the pub scene is gone, people drink indoors because its cheaper, when you do go out usually people are busy talking on their phones. Pity the world has gone that way. im from Ireland.
Because people feel more confident talking through their computer. Also, they can delete bad comments from people.
People get lazy and can't be ar.sed to go out, look nice and wait for fate.





Or (and this is my case) find it much easier to talk online first.





I'm in the UK. :)
Because people cant be bothered to get of there a.r.s.e and socialise like people use to when internet wasn't around.





Im in the UK
ppl that do it are ugly and cant get n e