An inherent Internet temptation: Long-distance relationships
A lot of people are meeting up online with people who live very far away. I’m not a fan of long distance relationships because they are more fantasy than reality. In a long-distance relationship, you spend so much more time anticipating being together than you actually spend being together. If you’re not careful, you’ll end up only having sex when you’re together rather than actually slowly, carefully, and organically getting to know each other, which will result in increased longing for one another when you’re apart, resulting in sexual liaisons when you’re together, on and on and on. You need two computers in your life Instant messaging Instant messaging has become part of the Internet scene, enabling you to get in touch with somebody immediately and talk in real time to them in a completely artificial while seemingly urgent way. Instant messaging discourages self-censoring, voice clues, or reality-based feedback loop. If you’re angry with one another (or even if you’re not), yo