About two years ago in Summer 2009 I became comfortable with a group of people at the WWE Xat chatbox. Back then I thought the chat was different from others on that of xat into gaming, because no one would give out personal info or ever post pictures of themselves, everyone on other xat chatboxes were usually just there to find a quick game match or NEVER speak of their personal lives. I got used to how different the WWE xat was and liked it, I "meet" this one person there a year younger than me who shared the same music taste as me so we got along fast, same music taste + pro wrestling fan = instant friend. The WWE xat featured people who had profile pictures of themselves, some actually got on webcam, etc.
As time passed on, I got to know the female owner (main owner) of the chat. I'm not going to say all details, but we eventually "dated". She still had a "boyfriend" but they had long lost their connection, where her "boyfriend" supposedly ignored her. Me and the girl lasted about a week, I thought I was in "love" (yeah, STUPID STUPID). It lasted a week, she broke up with me on a Saturday after a few times of me saying I loved her days earlier, I even called her long distance on the phone (My mom got pissed later on when she got the huge bill). We got back together that same day, broke up a day or two later.
I was literally obsessed with her, it actually bothered me. I actually wanted to kill myself, I was questioning myself why the hell did I have feelings for a girl older than me, a girl I never meet in person? Why was I bothered when some of the people on the chat tried to purposely annoy me and get under my skin? IT WAS THE DAMN INTERNET DAMN IT! I didn't get "over" the girl until about late January or early March, around that time period in 2010. I got over the WWE xat main owner UK girl when another girl who was a random guest on the xat was doing a school project about social activity on chatboxes, she hated it because she was a social person. She couldn't talk to ANY person on xat unless they messaged her, she did private chat me though back in fall 2009 around the time me and the UK girl broke up, trying to make me feel better, but I thought it was a random noob. I opened up to her in 2010, we talked a bit me and the other girl, she even broke her school project rules of phone calls. We talked about a lot of stuff from my music taste, my interests, etc. She trusted me enough with pictures of her (which I've kept). If I could ever meet her in person I'd be all for it. If it wasn't for her taking sense into me I wouldn't have been able to recover from the whole "WARGH THIS GIRL I'VE NEVER MEET BEFORE DOESN'T LIKE ME.". She helped me get together and I helped her with her school project.
Today the WWE Xat is dead because, the owners who ran it have "lives" and have moved on (The owner girl moved on a long time ago, though I was contacting her in other ways not chat related.). I go on every once in a blue moon when Raw is on to talk wrestling with the other dedicated wrestling fans who never got involved with the whole online dating thing.
In conclusion what have I learned? I feel Internet dating is lame and pointless, but at the same time I don't really care if someone sees pictures of me or knows my full name, or sees my Facebook profile. I've also learned to never take any insult from a person online that I've never meet in person, doesn't live near me, or even goes to the same school as serious. Living your life through friends on the Internet leaves you missing out on the people you could meet outside of it. Too add on, I don't add random people I've never meet on my Facebook anymore with the exception of (famous) musicians I love.