A series of emotions can occur when meeting someone for the very first time. It’s that feeling when you get that you want to say so much, but left with no words. Meghan Daum, the writer of the article “Virtual Love” meets someone online and realizes she had entered a fantasy world. His name was Pete, but she called him PF Slider. Everything that she had built was gone to waste when she looked at the him and was trying to figure out if she really did like him or it was just the empty space he filled in her life. Daum described how this person made her feel and what was happening when he decided to be a part of her life. Daum’s difficulties figuring out what was real love made her develop all different kinds of insecurities distracting her from reality causing her to focus on a relationship that was not convenient for her. …show more content…
The online relationship was also the last thing she would do if she ever even took interest in it. Daum writes, “ I am not what most people call a computer person I have no interest in chat rooms, newsgroups or most websites” ( Daum 314). She was never used to being on the computer from the beginning. Encountering her computer romance was something very new to her, no wonder that her romance / love affair fell apart and left her bitter quickly. Duam then explains “ I had previously considered cyber-communication an oxymoron, a fast road to the breakdown of humanity” ( Daum