SHORT ANSWER [RADIO VERSION]:

Yes!

LONG ANSWER [EXTENDED PLAY]:

Anything is possible. However, I personally don't see the internet as the best possible source when searching for love. Our society is becoming so impersonal. We want solid personal interaction, connection, and relationships, but somehow we want to obtain those by impersonal means. That is difficult for me to wrap my mind around.

Determining LOVE is one of the toughest and most important decisions of our life. How on earth can we analyze and gauge love based on what we've seen on a computer screen? You must remember that love is not ONLY a feeling. Love is a feeling that accompanies [and is married to] behavior. That means, you must observe the person you claim to love. Your observation and interaction will be SEVERELY limited by the distance and the PC. When you see love as just a feeling, you will never find TRUE LOVE anyway! You HAVE TO measure that feeling by the way you treat the one you claim to love and how you are treated by the one who claims to love you back! It's feeling plus accompanying behavior. That's how you measure TRUE LOVE!

Humans were designed to use our senses [SIGHT, HEARING, SMELL, TOUCH, and TASTE]. What happens when you finally see your "internet love" face to face and he is not attractive in your eyes [photos online and webcams don't cut it]? What if he is too short, too tall, too fat, or too skinny? What if you can't stand the way he speaks (in general), the way he converses with friends, or the way he moves his mouth? What if he has chronic halitosis or his body, feet, and hair have foul odors? What if he has psoriasis and peels and you don't want to touch him or go near him? What if he touches you and it turns you off? What if he tastes like garlic and that makes you gag? Of course these are hypotheticals, but let's be honest with ourselves. Had you met this man face to face initially, you would've made some of those observations which help determine whether you are attracted to him or not. Chatting for months or maybe years can be a waste of time if you meet face to face and you aren't even attracted to this person when you meet.

We seem to do everything in our power to chase these fantasies! Call me old fashioned, but I prefer a live voice. I like to look in someone's eyes when we chat. I want to observe their body language when they speak. I want to see what their friends look like and how they act. I want to go out to eat, watch movies, hang out, spend time away from any beeping or clicking distractions. What happened to good old fashioned human contact and conversation? Isn't it ironic that humans actually met, developed friendships, and loved each other long before the internet!?!

When we move so far away from physical human contact, our society suffers. We make up fantasy lives, fantasy profiles, fantasy names, lie about our age, lie about our past, lie about our preferences, but we are hoping to find TRUE LOVE. Then we have the nerve to go to sites where we know the majority of the members are looking for sex only and hope to find TRUE LOVE. We often have NO CLUE what TRUE LOVE is!

REDD'S FINAL THOUGHTS [The Remix]:

Don't use any means to get a man that you can't continue to use once you have the man! If you use the internet to get him, but you can't use it to keep him... it's fruitless. However, if you use healthy communication, honesty, consistency, and quality time to get the man... You can still use those qualities to keep him!

From my lips to your soul...

Redd