This all sounds positive to me in your experiences <smiles>.
My statement about "And the Really scarrey *to me* ones, who actually expect to Control and monopolize a persons real Time Life through a computer. Even when one makes it clear what one is seeking is an Online Relationship". Is about the experiences I myself, my Partner, and other's have experienced with some PPL online, that we've shared and discussed. Not like those you have mentioned. Which in my viewing your words, translates to me to mean > the ones you mention are consensual/agreed to.
My statement is about those who hound, chase, make demands, issue ultimatums, over the internet, and exhibit other such obsessive or even possessive behaviors over PPL they Truly don't Know, and that those PPL don't agree to. Thus the term net stalker. And attempt to do things that makes one uncomfortable, nervous, or even frightened. These things I mention vary of course. An example could be; I talk with someone on the net once, or even a few times. Everything *seems* fine. The next thing I know there are a bazillion messages and demands for my Time etc from that person. That person does not Know Me IRT, or my day to day Life. And seemingly doesn't care about that Fact. I've had PPL from the net attempt to get to me in many different ways. Some have tried it through Group Public meetings. Tracing phone numbers. Following me from places I mentioned I was going, etc. My Partner and Friends have experienced the same things. All of us have at one time or another had to even go *invisable* on our chat programs to avoid PPL like this. Some places and Groups call these types Trolls. Some term them "net spiders". Sometimes online Relationship(s) that seem to be going well with everyone on the same page take this turn also. I think the not Knowing eachother IRT has a lot to do with that perhaps? Maybe in regards to online relating, the net leaves Too Much to the imaginations of some? Or maybe like some fill in the blanks with what they wish for? Maybe it's the PPL who Live only in their heads?
So while net relating and communicating can be a wonderfull thing, such as in your case. It can also be a scarrey experience as well. While net relating is Real in a sense, perhaps what is scarriest to me is that some consider it their RT Life entirely, or even their Primary Life, and not just a fragment of it. Or even as a means to Growth and experience.
And I do wonder about these and Other(s) also.
Respectfully~SidheWolf






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