What happens when you try to date on line

Ok, now let's get to the real business: my experience of dating on line. Which is one of the reasons why I wanted to have a blog in the first place. To be able to tell to the sideral space what really happens when you try to meet a 'friend' or anybody of the gender you are interested in through this very new mean of communication. One theory I have (it works for planes too) is that we are psicho-biologically quite backwards in respect to what is happening technologically these days. So for example, when you travel to another continent, a part than jet lag, there's culture lag (which is not the same thing as cultural shock) in the sense that even when you go to a place you know well (see my case, when I go to New York or Canada or China) even if I do feel right away like if I am back 'home', it also takes me several days to fit in mentally and logistically. Most time I am quite lost during the first few days, even if I am back 'home'. That also happens when I go back to Italy after months here, or vice-versa. There's a process of cultural, habitus adaptation, that takes much more time than the flight. Because we are not originally programmed to travel that way, in such an 'innatural' fashion.

Same thing with MSN, dating on line, meeting strangers on the web, etc.: our pshycho-genes or whatever you want to call the tiny elements that carry our emotional DNA , would still act as normal, like in real life: i.e. somebody sounds nice to you, says nice things to you and instantly you start having a sweet penchant for him/her. And then this thing grows like a piece of dough in the dark space of the internet vacuum, with you and your mind and your sick phsyche filling in the void and making the 'other' so attactive, so desirable. Which of course is mostly the result of our imagination. But apparently there's no way to avoid it, becase this is just what people seem to love most about intenet dating: the creation of a ciber-romance with strangers, right from the center of your sofa. (to be continued with more 'specific' details)