Love in the Time of Pixels

The Escapist has piece, on this Valentine's Day, highlighting a relationship begun in a Virtual World that lead to the real life marriage of the players. From the article: "We think of these places most often as games, but there is much more going on in them than simply play. What we often forget is that any place in which two or more people can interact, whatever else it is, is a communications medium of a certain sort. Connecting via an online world - whether it's Second Life, World of Warcraft, EverQuest or any other - is not different from connecting via a chat room, via Friendster, via telephone or even in the time-honored way people sometimes connect at a party." Have you had any successful online experiences of the online variety (that you're willing to share)?

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A charming story

[WillAffleckUW]

and the reaction to one's words after a few slipped pixels is always a good sign.

Now if they hadn't disabled the hack in Sims 2 with the latest patch ... well ...

Let's just say that choosing an online avatar that actually corresponds to one's self is a good thing.

I know it's V-day and all...

[PFI_Optix]

But this isn't really all that special or new, is it?

I met my wife on a Counter-Strike server in 2000.

Been there, done that -- in 1990

[cwford]

I met my future wife online in 1985. We both ran local BBSs, spent long hours chatting and a relationship quickly developed.

We were married online in Dec. 1990. The pastor and both of us called a multi-line BBS and had several friend join as witnesses. The service was done and we were married. Later that night, we have a service IRL just to placate the family and all, but we all signed a document and had it notarized stating that our official wedding took place online.

Evidently someone saved a transcript for posterity's sake and it surfaced on the web a few years ago:

http://www.skepticfiles.org/aj/wed_b&c.htm

Results Not Always So Good

[MBraynard]

I played AC for a while. There was one woman with two kids. She was single. She essentially hop-scotched with her kids in tow from one bad relationship to another that she initiated through the game.

I think several of them resulted in pretty fast marragies and fast marriage endings (I can't spell marraige, sorry). In one case she deleted of one of the guys players.

Apparently she was somewhat cute and somewhat charming - not really devious, just a nut case.

Normally I wouldn't have cared at all, but I found it particularly disturbing that she had children and was dragging them through all of this with her.

Ok - not so great a V day story, but the other side of the coin I suppose.

Re:I know it's Digital-day and all...

[PFI_Optix]

She snuck in amidst the 247 .WAV files I was downloading. By the time I realized what happened, she'd installed her stuff in my living room and everything smelled like lavender. I'm still trying to figure out how this ring got on my finger.

The real story: We both frequented three of the same CS servers, and I was one of the few guys that didn't spaz out that she was a girl (which is why she paid any attention at all to me). Played together a lot, started voice chatting when the server was really slow, got interested. We met in person a few months after we met online. It's not every day you find a funny, game-loving web designer who also happens to be a hot chick.