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Internet dating: instant love or instant disappointment? : Comments
By Suzan Broadbent, published 3/11/2008That was fast. In eight days, my mate and his girlfriend 'winked' and were seriously dating. So what constitutes an internet date exactly?
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In an age of high-tech where idealism is scorned and political correctness rules the reality of so many lives, I consider we see something else about ourselves:- that fantasy still survives, and that imagination, far from being stifled, is still unfettered.
The apparent success of these sites proves that even the most stringent of everyday martinets may still lie in bed at night constructing fantasies; that the bully of the board room may travel to work each day inventing a life where tropical islands and magical nights are shared; or the drabbest of shopkeepers still stalks through their own - and others - minds as a mystical being.
Perhaps Internet dating sites pick up where Victorian Penny Dreadfuls left off? They prove that escape from the harsher realities of life is still possible, and that, despite our vaunted sophistication and pragmatism, human beings are still dreamers of dreams.