What Is The Difference Of Online Dating And Long Distance Relationship?
I’ve been dating this guy for nearly a month now and like when i tell my friends about him they call me a online dater which i find as insult just because our relationship is by using messenger doesn’t mean it’s i online date. My feelings toward him is definatly more than an online date because i really love him a lot.
What do i do? 
( pls help me.
You must be quite young. How can you possibly “love” someone that you do not even know? You may feel as though you know him, but online dating OR a long-distance relationship is no comparison to actually being with the guy and getting to know the REAL him.
Why are you insulted when your friends call you an online dater? Isn’t that the way that you communicate with this person? What would you want them to call this relationship? A long-distance relationship is typically one where you actually KNOW the person, you’ve probably dated and spent time with him, but you’re separated by considerable distance so that you have to keep in touch through letters, telephone, e-mail. An internet/online dater is one where you probably don’t physically know the person or spend time with him, and your sole means of meeting him and getting to know him is via the internet, or, as you said, IMing.
What do you mean, “What do I do?” Tell your friends to call it what they want, if it’s a relationship you’d like to develop and cultivate, and keep talking to the guy. If it’s more important HOW they refer to your relationship, then you probably aren’t ready for a relationship of any type. If you’re asking if you should keep talking to the guy, why not? Just don’t fool yourself into believing that it’s “love;” take it for what it’s worth — a friendship, until you possibly get the opportunity to know him in person.
If you knew him in person before you were separated by distance (i.e., if one of you moved away, or you met while one of you was on vacation and decided to start a relationship), then you can consider it a regular long-distance relationship.
If you met each other on the internet, and you’ve never actually met in person, then it would be considered an online relationship.
I suppose if you met online, then met in person, and decided to continue the relationship after having met, then you could maybe consider it a regular long-distance relationship, but it still started online.
The fact that you say your relationship is “by using messenger” screams online dating to me. After all, you have to be connected to the internet somehow to contact him. But I don’t know the whole story, so I’m only guessing at this point.
I would consider online dating when you’ve met him online. If you met him on a dating website or in a chat room then you’re online dating. Have you seen him face to face?
I would consider a long distance relationship to be a couple who have met physically and gone on proper dates and for some reason, one has to go away or they live in different cities so their main forms of communication are online or on the phone.
Just because you’re online dating doesn’t mean you don’t love him but you won’t know if you’re right for each other until you actually spend time together in person.
Do you guys talk on the phone every so often?
Have you met each other before?
Because if you do then your relationship would be classified as long distance relationship.
Online dating would be saying that you’ve met that person online and started dating them, not knowing what they look like or sound like.
And a long distance relationship, and talking on the computer is an inexpensive way of communicating if the long distance calling is expensive.
Well have you ever met him? How many times this month did you see him? Are there plans to meet him in the near future. Have you two ever met in real life? if you answred no, then yes it is an online dating relationship.
I am in a long distance for almost 4 years. Long distance becuase I had to move away to go to university! While I would agree with you, there is lots of simlairities, such as we do talk everynight on msn. But we talk allot during the day on teh phone. He comes in to see me every other weekend, and I go see him once a month.
Mary F, I resent that. I am 62 not 55. LOL online dating can be with a person across the street. a long distance relationship means the other person live far away. you see them on weekends, or once a month, or longer. If your guy was in Iraq, that would be a long distance relationship.
how far away is you online pal, meet him. you have feelings for him, but it is hard to love someone you have not met.
If you met him online then you are infact an online dater. If you had a relationship with someone who moved away and you now communicate through electronic devices or letters then it’s a long distance relationship. And by the way, online relationships are extremely dangerouse. Be careful. No matter how well you think you might know them they could still be a danger to you.
did you meet online or in person? If you met in real life, not cyberspace, and started dating, then he moved away (or went home) than it is a long distance relationship (no matter how you stay in touch now).
If you met online through a dating site or a chat room, and have never been seen each other in person, you are online dating.
hey,
im in the exact same situation;; i love my man a lot too and we talk over messenger too.
no one knows though that were dating so i cant exactly help you too much ;; but all i have to say is if u really love him youre just gonna have to learn how to deal with the insults and just try ur hardest to keep him and urself happy
-best of luck :]
Online dating usually means that you met this guy online. A long-distance relationship usually began when you first met face-to-face and then one of you moves.
If you met him through the internet, face facts: you’re online dating. It’s all personal opinion whether or not that’s a bad thing.
If you’ve met the person previously it’s a long distance relationship, if you have only “met” them online.. it’s an online relationship. Simple as that.
Oh and what do you mean at the end, “What do i do? Pls help me.” …… Help you with what exactly and what do you do about what??
If you met on the internet, then it’s an internet relationship. If you know him from real life, but communicate/keep your relationship through the internet, then its a long distance thing.
They are kind of different and yet the same. Long distance you don’t live in the same area. Online means you could possibly easily see each other but make a choice not to, you’d rather chat on line.
online dating the person your dating might be a fake. like he might be a male when you though it was a female. it might be all wrong. but in distance relationship. you know who they are
Actually I have had friend get married fro multiplayer videogames. They’ve turned out to be some of the happiest couples. Don’t give in to your friends whining. Goodluck. =)
Not alot there is distance between you.So wheres the fire
you have SEEN the long distance one..
the onlne one is a 55 yr old fat man!
if youve met the guy in person and dated him in person at least once before, then you’re definitely not an online dater.
Online relationships are Gay.
Long distance relationships are sad.
that’s the difference.
have u even met this guy??? IN PERSON??? if no…you are a loser..