Writer's Block: Online relationship shopping

[ivybgreenflower]

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Depends on where you meet people. If you meet them on lj or a messageboard and get to know them as people first, then it does kind of matter less what they look like/financial status/etc. But if you're purposely going to dating sites and the first thing you see is how much money someone has and what they (supposedly) look like, then it's no different from real life.
-1:57 PM

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[vanishing-cake.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of writers - who do a variety of kinds of writing, anyway - on lj, so yeah, financial status or appearance is far less important than talent. But people who are looking for a date online are usually lonely or shy people being paired up with other lonely or shy people; everyone expects attractiveness and money to be...well, lied about on the internet, so that's not as much a factor, but I think people dating because both of them are lonely doesn't make their relationship less superficial than people dating cos one of them has money and the other one is hot (at least in the beginning).

[ivybgreenflower]

I'm inclined to agree with this, definitely.