  Online nowElledark- Elle is a single woman from Vaguely Virtuous In The, Virgin Islands (U.S.).
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... she's wide-eyed and innocent, but keeps a sharp little switch-blade hidden in her pink faux-leather purse to prick pomposity and pretentiousness. Mostly though she just wants to have a good time. Please note, if you message me and I do not answer it always means I am not at my computer. Even if Stumble shows me as being online (which it sometimes does incorrectly) I may be either wandering aimlessly or hiding in the cupboard to escape my aunt or performing some menial task for the cat ..:)).. ellie .. (P.s. - each page is a different 'theme' so whatever is on the first page isn't what the blog is 'about'. Click through a few pages and you'll see what I mean)
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Fool in Love ?
Oh internet romance, what a wondrous thing to behold. I must admit I do not speak from any great personal experience here, more from the position of an amused observer of the comedy of cyber-life. I certainly do not dismiss internet romance as impossible but I do sometimes question its plausibility. Of course it's 'real'. There is no simple dividing line between 'real-life' and 'online'. In fact in this cyber world you can fall far faster and harder than you ever would in 'real' life. You take a blank canvas and project onto it your desires and your dreams and the ill-formed shadows rapidly coalesce into your online 'lover', the digital embodiment of all that is lacking in the people around you. Sure, people *can* connect online and it can lead to a 'real-life' romance or it can even continue indefinitely online in its own right and be perfectly fine like that. I know cases where its worked wonderfully but honestly they are in a tiny minority. Thats not to put anyone off, just to suggest having realistic expectations.
Having been around SU for a few months now though what I've become more aware of, and I'm sure its true elsewhere, are the same online lotharios names cropping up in relation to an ever-changing parade of females (or indeed the same female serial romantics falling noisily 'in love' yet again). I see young girls who haven't been on SU for long extolling the virtues of a new 'soul-mate' and when I see who it is I groan inwardly and think ... "Oh purleeeze .. not that sad-sack romeo again". And I'm not talking about the clumsy 'Hey baby's" or worse that you just ignore or block. I'm talking about the serial seducers. The guys who score repeatedly seem to be the ones that can fake 'sensitive'. They might have a little clumsy poetry of sorts. They might have a tale of heartbreak or anguish to tell. They do 'soulful' and 'artistic' in a fake, plastic, 'do-it-by-numbers' kind of way. They home in on the girls with the pretty avatars. They deploy their tired little bag of tricks and amazingly it keeps on working. Its funny when you think that in this wacky cyber-world of ours typing counts as a romantic skill and borderline literacy gets the hormones buzzing.
What set me off on this was hearing about a nice girl I know on SU and one of those guys who's name just keeps on cropping up. My first reaction was to cringe. Its like she was going starry-eyed over a used kleenex. Its not my place to say anything to her and I wouldn't (experience has shown me that so often your understanding of whats happening online is flawed) but Oh lord, sometimes I despair at peoples gullibility. However I guess 'love' (or its digital facsimile) can make fools of even smart people..:))
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