In last year's hit movie, You've Got Mail, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan did for e-mail what Romeo and Juliet did for balconies. They made hooking up on the Internet look like the most romantic thing since red roses. This was a language I didn't understand. Well, so long, Johnnyboy. Lotharios is a new University of Oregon study that says online romances have as much chance of success as the kind sparked in your local singles bar.
Problem is, the personal ads download faster than the photos.
Over 180,000 of our members have told us that they're leaving the site because they met the person they want to be with. The problem is that the inside package is sometimes as misleading as the exterior. Johnnyboy, for instance, could well have been a woman. He could have been 13. He could also be married or otherwise unavailable.