To communicate on the Internet there are truly endless possibilities. Dating websites. Social networks, various communities of interest, forums, chats, blogs, diaries, women. all and not enumerate. There is an opinion that virtual communication is always superficial and does not give a depth of perception, but, in my opinion, it is not so. I believe that if a person has something to say in real life, then it will be interesting to communicate with him on the Internet.
But once there is communication in the network, then a reasonable question arises, can real feelings arise in it, can one fall in love with a virtual interlocutor? This question in the era of the global network and figures rises, let's try to answer it.
Let's first introduce some definitions, first of all we will talk about non-visual communication, i.e. when we do not see a person, his appearance, facial expressions, ie, in other words, we do not use a webcam and other technical devices. Our interlocutor is completely virtual, at best we see his avvartarku and a certain set of photographs.
So what is virtual communication, than it differs from other more familiar forms of communication. In fact, the fact is that we do not see the person of the interlocutor. At first glance, this is a great obstacle to developing feelings for the virtual interlocutor. But if we look at a broader view, we will see that people have been already for several thousand years, are engaged in writing letters to each other and communicating in essence, just as virtually. Only use for this not digital methods of data transfer, but plain paper and mail.
In history, there are many examples of relationships that were conducted primarily through correspondence, such as Balzac, Mayakovsky, and Tsvetaeva. Their correspondence people read after decades and centuries, although if you understand, they are presented in these letters as virtual interlocutors. During the Second World War, many girls corresponded with soldiers who were unknown to them howling at the front, at an hour these people did not know each other before, but the relations established in this way after the war ended led to happy marriages.
The only difference between modern communication on the network is the speed of sending messages. But it seems to me that this factor can hardly have a negative impact on the development of feelings between the interlocutors.
From the above, I can conclude that in the Internet space, between virtual interlocutors, real feelings and attitudes may well be established.
But the question arises whether this feeling can be called love, and what kind of continuation it may have with him. If we draw parallels, and analogies with the same correspondence with letters, then we see that the only productive continuation of virtual communication is a real meeting.
After all, no matter how rich the syllable, and beautiful epithets, we live in the real world. And love is a feeling that, despite all its ephemerality, can not be content with only correspondence. He needs real communication with the person, it is necessary to see him, touch him, feel his smell.
For this it seems to me that when answering the question, one can or can not fall in love with a virtual interlocutor, I would say that it is possible, but in order for this love to degenerate into something more, it must be translated from the virtual space to the real one.