An Englishwoman, who has been too busy to find a date,
recently placed a personal advertisement through an online
auctioneer to look for a husband. She is full of hope in her ___1___
"to prove that the Internet is not full of 'cybergeeks'. There
are normal people ___2___
there." She has since not managed to successfully auction her
wifely ___3___. She was
later asked to remove her advertisement ___4___
a probable bogus bid of 1 billion pounds for her ___5___
in marriage. She is yet another casualty of the Internet dating
___6___ , which has claimed
many victims. When chat rooms started ___7___
town, many 'dating' hopefuls picked up that chat language, got
online and ___8___ their
luck. Then comes online messenger systems which propagate
another ___9___ to get
hooked. At first, online relationships seem so enjoyable and
___10___. Then the horror
stories ___11___ --teens
running away from home and spouses running ___12___
further away from home, emotionally and financially ___13___
by online mates. Another group of hopefuls are lucky enough to
just ___
14___ lighter events like
lack of concentration at work, ___15___
neck and shoulder, blurred vision and of course, high Internet
bills. Victims of these horror stories seem to miss the fact
that the Internet is really just a medium that carrier
information. It has no sense of right and wrong and does not
filter its users. Thus the Net cannot effectively perform the
role of matchmaker. How the Internet is used is entirely up to
the user, who must use common sense and wisdom. |