Internet love is stupid!..

I don't believe in internet love. I do believe in internet friendship! 🙂

Originally posted by Linkalicious

Whether it's internet love or love in the real world....love is stupid.

Not much less than you, after that statement.

i personally dont agree with internet 'love' - but in theory it would be purer, because its not confined by physical appearance

In theory it would be purer because it's based entirely on an illusion.

Now - I firmly believe that anyone using the word "love" about an online relationship should get a CAT scan asap, because they must have some sort of tumour affecting the way they think. You can't possibly get anything other than a broad idea of what someone is like online. People in real life can't be switched off - you can't pick and choose when and how you communicate with them - you cant log them off. Real life is vastly more complicated (and a damn sight more interesting…)

Without the chemical interaction, the goosebump effect and the give and take of the mundane reality of getting to know someone you simply can't call any relationship love and expect to be taken seriously.

That said - I've seen people who are in RL relationships who don’t know each other half as well as people online who have never met - they just cling to each other in a relationship for security and sex and barely communicate at all - yet they use the word love all the time. I don’t have any respect for them either. I just respect me and backfire.

explain to me how love isn't stupid...

Originally posted by Mr Zero
In theory it would be purer because it's based entirely on an illusion.

Now - I firmly believe that anyone using the word "love" about an online relationship should get a CAT scan asap, because they must have some sort of tumour affecting the way they think. You can't possibly get anything other than a broad idea of what someone is like online. People in real life can't be switched off - you can't pick and choose when and how you communicate with them - you cant log them off. Real life is vastly more complicated (and a damn sight more interesting…)

Without the chemical interaction, the goosebump effect and the give and take of the mundane reality of getting to know someone you simply can't call any relationship love and expect to be taken seriously.

That said - I've seen people who are in RL relationships who don’t know each other half as well as people online who have never met - they just cling to each other in a relationship for security and sex and barely communicate at all - yet they use the word love all the time. I don’t have any respect for them either. I just respect me and backfire.

I should so totally close this thread now because Zero just summed it all up so well, noone can possibly disagree.

yeah, what Zero said

Originally posted by Linkalicious
explain to me how love isn't stupid...

Well if caring for someone as much as you do for yourself is stupid to you, then you go off and feel that somewhere else, because i assure you not everyone thinks so.

Love isnt stupid, because for one, there are different kinds of love. Mother love, brother love, love between two friends, love between lovers...you dont love your mother the way you love your friends or your lovers, but if you think they're all stupid, then good luck to you.

Well, Zero summed it up very well, good job 👆

I don't think it's possible to fall in love with someone by purely talking to them online. But for an internet relationship to turn into love if you do actually get to meet the person? That's perfectly feasible.

And I don't understand people who say love is stupid...

without love, this world would dergade into chaos.
people wouldnt have kids, they wouldnt love them, so they'd just throw them in a dumpster

anyone in a relationship, would do so just for sex

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
Well if caring for someone as much as you do for yourself is stupid to you, then you go off and feel that somewhere else, because i assure you not everyone thinks so.

Love isnt stupid, because for one, there are different kinds of love. Mother love, brother love, love between two friends, love between lovers...you dont love your mother the way you love your friends or your lovers, but if you think they're all stupid, then good luck to you.

So Debra at my work, wasn't in love with her future husband at any point in their 9 month online relationship...but after 6 weeks of knowing him in real life, when she became engaged....she was then, according to Zero, allowed to be "in love"

Just wondering. How is it that someone who's never been in an online relationship and doesn't believe that someone can fall in love online, an authority on the subject?

assumptions

Originally posted by ForgivingBeauty
I just wanted to see how far people would go on the internet

Toying with people's emotions, you're such a nice person 😖

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
I should so totally close this thread now because Zero just summed it all up so well, noone can possibly disagree.

But how can YOU or ANYONE quantify what LOVE is to any given person? Granted, the physical nature may not be there, but as you said, love comes in MANY forms. Why is it that 2 people cannot love, just because they are not in the same room, state, province or country?

I was only joking about the closing thing, by the way 😕

Love is NOT stupid....if people want to believe in internet love, let them. You can't change a person's mind. It's their choice

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
I was only joking about the closing thing, by the way 😕

I totally love YOU! It's a platonic, interspecies thing, but still, it's there. 😄

😂 Moose, you're hilarious...

But yeah, like Chels said, everyone has their own idea of what love is, so if someone thinks internet love is possible, maybe it is for them.

Originally posted by Silver Stardust
😂 Moose, you're hilarious...

But yeah, like Chels said, everyone has their own idea of what love is, so if someone thinks internet love is possible, maybe it is for them.

😄

I agree. Love is love, and it comes in many forms, when we least expect it. I may not BE in an internet love, but I can see where people can FEEL that way, and if so, who are WE to judge?

Originally posted by lil bitchiness
I was only joking about the closing thing, by the way 😕

Shame - it would have been like the old days when you closed every thread I commented in.