An excellent summary of why you should be skeptical of online relationships. We know each other online only as disembodied, atemporal intelligences.
I habitually communicate with thousands of people I’ve never met, and will never meet. On my YouTube channel, hundreds of people I don’t know regularly listen to me talk. Hell, even the few people that I “know” are hardly any more real except that I recognise their usernames. It’s all very surreal.
I'd differentiate between keeping in touch with people one has met before in person and creating new relationships. The dynamics of the online exchange feels very different.
I habitually communicate with thousands of people I’ve never met, and will never meet. On my YouTube channel, hundreds of people I don’t know regularly listen to me talk. Hell, even the few people that I “know” are hardly any more real except that I recognise their usernames. It’s all very surreal.