Yup Don knows what he's sayin' It's a weird phenomenon that didn't exist when I was dating before I got married. We didn't have the Internet or email or smart phones back then, that didn't come until years later. But with the social media revolution came a strange new twist where people are into "online relationships" even to the point of sending nudes back and forth even though they've never met. A lot of people love to do this because they can kind of imagine the other person to be whoever they want. If you watch that Catfish show it's shocking how people will carry on these phone relationships for YEARS having never met, or even Facetimed, or even talked on the phone! 100% of their relationship has been messaging through FB or texting. And they insist they love this person they've been talking to, they say they are dating, etc. etc. It absolutely blows my mind. So yeah, be wary of that.
I've had ladies give me that BS line of getting to know each other through texting first, and my response is always "we will know more about each other in 5 minutes face-to-face then 5 weeks of texting." If they still refuse then I wish them well. It's a game of numbers, you've got to message 100 to talk to 20 or 30, and out of those you might meet 4 or 5 and 1 or 2 of those might be worth seeing again. It's a ton of work and takes a ton of time, so prepare yourself!
It's a weird phenomenon that didn't exist when I was dating before I got married. We didn't have the Internet or email or smart phones back then, that didn't come until years later. But with the social media revolution came a strange new twist where people are into "online relationships" even to the point of sending nudes back and forth even though they've never met. A lot of people love to do this because they can kind of imagine the other person to be whoever they want. If you watch that Catfish show it's shocking how people will carry on these phone relationships for YEARS having never met, or even Facetimed, or even talked on the phone! 100% of their relationship has been messaging through FB or texting. And they insist they love this person they've been talking to, they say they are dating, etc. etc. It absolutely blows my mind. So yeah, be wary of that. 