Imagine you have found the following magazine article in a puddle. You picked it up because the title has caught you eye. You want to read it, but there are some words missing. Please fill in the blanks with the appropriate worlds as you read the article.

Thanks to late twentieth-century technology, Maria from France and Martin from America met on a chat line. They talked and exchanged letters months with the help of their computers and they found themselves falling head heels in love. As time went by, they decided meet in person, not only the virtual world. The meeting was not easy to arrange as the young people were separated a very real ocean, but they managed to set a time and a place and have been living together happily since.

Agnes was hoping a similar romance when she met her love on the Internet. They arranged to meet. The young woman felt she finally found her knight in shining armour as their pesonalities and interests so similar and even their goals seemed to match well. What a disappointment when they finally met! She was not disappointed his physical appearance - the man was elegantly dressed - when he actually spoke, that was a different sotry. The evening was a nightmare as Mr. Charming turned Mr. Hyde and treatend everyone, The parking lot attendant to the waiter in the restaurant and ushers at the theatre, with the utmost disrespect and arrogance. When she attempted to spek up and try to find out what was going on, he only pushed her away and she stumbled the wall. What could she have said the man she knew only as FulfillYourDreams throught electronic contact, and who had supposedly just arrived from San Francisco? More then likely, FulfillYourDreams continues to creep around cyberspace looking new victims, possibly a new nickname.

Throught history men and women have used a variety means to find each other. Internet romanse, according to some, is a bizarre method to meer potential partners, while to others it it 'natural' as the Garden od Eden.

There are characteristic steps to in romances formed on the interned/ "Love at first byte" is rare, althrought there are instances. Whatever happens, you know that love has arrives when you reach the mouse with butterflies in your stomach.

Whether in real life or in cyberspace, is real pain and disappointment that accompanies love. Many choose this anonymous way meeting electronically hoping that the distance will protect them the usual pains of a relationship. , this is not true. Those who don't observe the rules and aren't careful may hurt.

How does a cyber romance differ from a real-life romance? Perhaps one significant difference is that communication plays such a large part. Words that communicate feelings have an enormous . Before a real date we fix our hair and our clothes; on the Internet we dust off our intellect, imagination and personality. In essence the of events in reversed - we show our inner beauty, and only after it has been accepted does the in-person-meeting reveal the physical vessel of the personality.