Virtual Affair

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person, rather than actually liking PFSlider for who he is as Pete. She refuses to accept it and instead blames life for her failure; however, real relationships demand emotional investment and require hard work from both people.
Meghan Daum gets to know a guy - PFSlider whom she refers to as Pete and feels an emotional bond through the messages they send to each other. As they continue talking Pete calls her "Princess Daum." (Daum 314) This compliment makes her feel like Snow White and is what factors into her falling in love with him. Thinking that she has found her Prince Charming, makes her consider that she no longer needs to be an independent woman in the 21st century. This is one of the first claims in which we can see that his opinion is very biased based on things that he might not yet know about Daum. I can see the author feels the same when she says, "I was horrified by the realization that I had invested so heavily in a made-up character - a character in whose ...

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interesting. Both Meghan and Pete were guilty of this. However, the difference between the two is that Pete was very fascinated with Meghan even when they met in real life, while on the other hand, Meghan was not intrigued at all by Pete. Early on in there exchanges she tells her readers that, "I revealed very little about myself, relying instead on the ironic commentary and forced witticisms that are the conceit of so many email messages" (Daum 314). This shows how a person can hide behind the profile that they create. The author shouldn't blame herself for the situation happening the way it did, because online dating scenarios are more made up of fantasies, hopes, and dreams of the ...

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