It's kind of funny when you think about it. It's as if someone's age, sex, and location is the most important thing to know about a person. This just shows you how superficial these online relationships can be, which should warn you that you should never really take these online relationships seriously. I'm pretty sure that we've all heard one online horror story or another of people meeting up and not getting what they thought. Yet, people seem not to take these stories to heart.
People still meet strangers they know from chat rooms.
It's amazing how many letters Jini has gotten regarding online relationships, asking her opinion about meeting so and so who they met online and who they either like or fell in love with. You have no idea what kind of person you are talking to. Anyone can lie to you about who they are, what they are doing, where they're from. It's like a mask. In a chat room, it's all about what you write, and you have all the time in the world to write what you want to write.