Wednesday, December 10, 2008

E-dentity

Have you seen You’ve Got Mail? I recently caught sight of this movie while channel surfing at home. It is probably high on a lot of people’s list of the top romantic movies ever made. It’s so far up that a generation of pinoys have invaded the net trying to hook up with a meg ryan or a tom hanks.

We’ve also heard of the horror stories in e-dating. We’ve heard of predators, stalkers and posers but it’s quite novel to actually find a “role-player.” What do I mean?

I have this friend who thought she’d found her tom hanks. He was a soldier soon to be shipped-off to Iraq. He lives with his sister and his 5 year old boy. He stayed friends with his best bud from High School and he looked like a decent, freedom loving american.

My friend got into a relationship with the guy and eventually met his sister, kid and friend via yahoo messenger. It was fine for a while until one day she discovered that the kid, the sister and the friend did not exist. All their accounts were just alternate log-in accounts of the guy she was e-dating.

Interesting.

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