Internet Friends

I fully realize that the emergence of cyber relationships has its pitfalls. Case in point is the inability to really know someone by being physically seperate from them, so the relationship is primarily founded on visual input...photos, artwork, and words in blogs or IM's.
Some people will make the choice to use the ability to mask their identity on the internet, some will not, some will to a degree. How many people in the real world are named Goodboy, or Handlemaker or whatever? I chose to use combinations of real world elements for all my various online ID's, and post pictures of myself.
Still, its interesting to me that people will make the decision to get familiar with each other online, to the point that sometimes they might telephone one another, or make phyiscal contact. I was in a situation like this several years ago, and it turned wierd when my friends decidied they wanted to come visit me, which i thought would be OK, only when they showed up, it was to invite me to be part of a threesome in sex, which was not at all what I had in mind...and which when my honey found out caused some real friction in my family about computer usage.

[edited by canice because I wanted to]

While i ramble on about this, I thought according to the media that the old "you woman, stupid; me man, smart" thing was history. Not where I work. Crap, even though I am being paid to manage a project for this agency, the people that run the place, all men, will ask you stuff and then act like you never told them anything. The facility manager, a woman who has worked there for 30 years, and i recommended some new equipment, and were told to look into it. Meanwhile the boss gave instructions to the engineering staff to buy XYZ and install it. So why are we wasting our time doing anything? It is very frustrating...reminds me a lot of Dilbert, and how the boss is off doing something totally weird...