1) Megham Daum and Pete didn’t hit it off when they met in person because meeting someone in person is a more formal than talking to people online. When you talk to people online it is easy to detach yourself from it and I don’t think people really picture a real person when they talk to them. The individuals know they are talking to a real person but at the same time they don’t. An example of what I mean would be the studies that have been done about cyber bullying, the kids don’t have to respond to body language and hurt that they are causing so it’s easy to separate yourself from the situation. The factors that most influence whether two people will develop a relationship more than just friendship is if they find the other person attractive, …show more content…
Normally people are only completely honest and vulnerable with people that we know and trust, but she had this type of relationship with someone that she really didn’t know well simply because she made that connection with someone that was in part a creation of her own mind in that the guy couldn’t live up to. She let him infiltrate her world without meeting him in person so when she was talking to him she was probably imagining him which can lead to let down when the person can’t live up to your expectations. She talks about how he talked about himself too much and that she should have tried to talk more, but all in all she really didn’t seem to make that much of an effort to get to know him and an actual human being rather than a computer. It seemed like she knew it was going to crash and fail before they had really talked in person. I think she probably learned that she wasn’t destined to meet someone online and that for her it is necessary to develop a romance with a human so that she doesn’t put them on too much of a pedestal. I think she learned that its ok to let yourself be vulnerable to people but that if you are going to be vulnerable then make sure it’s with someone who you can see their facial expressions and read their body language. Dating and meeting new people can be scary but that scared feeling and the butterflies that go along with that help you to see if there is actually a physical and mental relationship rather than just an intellectual