beforehand, i would like to apologize to the mods of MT for not being able to follow the english only policy...

anyway, my late thread was about a problem of my friend...

do you think an online relationship would work out? (both in email and through cellphones)
do you think falling in love with someone you only know of through text messages or email can really be called love?

i have a friend who's boyfriend, she only met through texting...
i think she took their relationship seriously as in she thinks its actually love...
i don't really think it can be called love cause that kind of relationship... i think the guy can just be playing with her, making her believe he's serious about the relationship...
what can you say about this?
and one thing more, if you believe that it really is just a prank that the guy is pulling on my friend, what do you think i should do about it? do i have to convince my friend to stop her relationship with her boyfriend? and how dp you think i can resolve the problem without having a large negative effect perspective about me on her?

thanks in advance....
sorry again to the mods...
next time i'll try to remember the policies in posting!

I don't think online relationship can really lead to close relationship. I mean, I talk (write) a lot online but in real life, I barely talk. People's personality might be different from online and real life because people can't actually see you.

I can see it going as both ways depending upon the people. I have had personal experience with friends going both ways. One worked the other didn't. To say that it can't happen is not totally true. Life is unexpected one cannot forsee everything that is going to happen. As such we just have to stand back and watch as our lives unfold trying as best we can to make things go well for us. The best thing you can do is be supportive of your friend. Be there for her whenever she needs something whether it just be someone to talk to or to listen.

i agree with spystreak: the best might be to just be there for your friend when things are good or bad. has your friend even met her boyfriend in person? my personal experience tells me that you cant be in a relationship unless you talk face to face, but anything can happen (guess i got the bad end of stick )

trust me, i know a lot of Filipinos who are happily married with people they only met thru texting and chatting.

if your friend and her "boyfriend" can get along quite fine in a more personal, upclose manner then I there's probably no problem in their relationship... as long as they get along fine.

Yeah i have a few friend to go chat rooms and meet people and they say there in love and all them kind of thing and i thought they were just playing around to waste time but now there talking about meeting each other and i wonder how it's going to turn out .