It is believed many young workers, whose private lives have been squeezed out by longer hours in the office, have been forced to seek romance at their computer terminal. The women surveyed, who had an average age of 27, would typically devote around 90 minutes a day chatting online to their web suitors at work. One in three said they used the web to organise their social lives. Web romance explosion' Newwomanonline spokeswoman Carmel Hayes explained the explosion in romance over the net, which, she said, helped Britain's five million female users to boost their social lives. It's just a great way of building up a relationship and finding out if you've got anything in common with someone.
Women are natural communicators and see the internet as a new toy.
It's an intimate way of communicating. But Mrs Hayes warned women to meet web dates in public and with friends to avoid perverts. She has spoken to victims of stalkers and phone pests who have given out their phone numbers and personal details over the internet. They just need to be sensible. But the girls I spoke to were more frightened of buying online than picking up blokes.