Since World War II, women have fallen in love with soldiers they met only through letters. This can be compared to today's computer mediated communications, as the participants have no visual, aural or other cues of another. Back to Top Unintended Love 1. Because talking online allows a person to more open and in a sense, more self-confident, people can speak their minds and be blunt about feelings. The biggest problem is that people are falling in love and they didn't plan to.
Many people are naive about what is happening.
They get entranced by chatting with a stranger in a far-off place. But there need to be some sense of wariness involved. When you're a child, your mother tells you not to talk to strangers because it's not something that would occur to you. Now, someone has to tell you that online relationships can become startlingly an rapidly intense, and you need to take care of yourself. Back to Top False Sense of Intimacy 1.