Do you think people you’ve only met online can be called your boyfriend or girlfriend?

Question

I don't mean like you met on a dating site and then met in real life, I mean if you've only talked to them online and you both are into each other, would you really call that a relationship exactly? Not to be offensive, but I've heard people from time to time actually calling someone their boyfriend/girlfriend who they only talk to online and have maybe even face timed with but have never met in real life. For me I only consider someone actually my girlfriend if we're meeting face to face and move forward exclusively. But what do you guys think?

Datboi65 · Accepted Answer

What a sad world we live in. Some of these who said yes cannot be serious, I refuse to believe it.

I just think nobody should be so desperate to a point where they call a person whom they've never met their SO, that's just odd and possessive. Happens a lot when they finally meet, then they realize that they don't find each other attractive, or the other was a catfish or so on.

Cringe warning: This is what happens when you go in with no game plan doing LDR

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A9wc9am64sk

MementoMori_ · Accepted Answer

I don't think a romantic relationship can be real until you spend time together in person. There are just too many aspects of a person that cannot be experienced online. Online relationships are maybe 30% reality and 70% fantasy.

midnightmoon05 · Accepted Answer

No. I would say I like chatting with them. I wouldn’t even call them a real friend.
I would need to have met that person in real life. Dated at lease a month or so. They have to show that they are relationship quality. I would also need to see them for real. Talking, laughing, hand holding … etc.

Pinay_ako · Accepted Answer

It’s like a long distance relationship and if the commitment and seriousness is there, I’d be proud to call him my man.

katiesmuff · Answer

That actually sounds pretty stupid and indicates just how disturbing todays social media lifestyle is rotting our brains.

It would be rare to actually date someone and begin calling him a boyfriend or girlfriend until after several live in person dates.

Online you could be making almost anything your boyfriend

DaveJord · Answer

Yeah I think you call people you only meet on line your girlfriend or boyfriend. If you need that sense of validation that your in a real relationship, and you can't have relationships with any women or men that have met in real life.

I mean let them have it why bust their bubble.

For me I never call any women my girlfriends if we haven't had sex yet... like real sex with penis in vagina, not sexting sex.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

Hell no! You can barely call them “people” until you’ve met them in person. Have you been following the quality of AI that’s active on social media RIGHT NOW?
There’s NO WAY that’s not also being utilized on dating apps by scammers, users and abusers!

Sixgunsound · Answer

I think you have the right idea. The same goes for ‘it’s complicated’ or ‘situationships’ or any of the other means people have come up with to avoid defining the issue or clarifying a position.

Cecinene · Answer

No they can't until you have seen them facially

Nikki1989 · Answer

Nope. They are only online acquaintances at best.

Apple1996 · Answer

Nah not really. I'd let it slide if they said my online girlfriend/boyfriend but for actually dating they have to met up in person every once in awhile then that's considered a long distance girlfriend/boyfriend.

AndrésC64 · Answer

Nope. Penpal maybe, but LDR/online relationships are not real relationships. Or at least not anywhere equivalent to a relationship that is face to face.

NathanDavis · Answer

Yes.

a relationship can be about so many much more things than just meeting in person

and on the other side of this, there are a lot of people who call themselves boyfriend and girlfriend, or even husband and wife so they marry and live together but their relationship lacks so much of the bonding aspects that they are just that in the name, but not really in the sense of of what a relationship actually is about

Berethor · Answer

Boyfriend or girlfriend in the sims, if they don't been intimate in real life then they not a couple.

Anonymous · Answer

Uh no cause they could say the chick in the photo is his sister and then boom said sister walks in butt naked on a video call sweet hoe alabama. Not from personal experience just putting it oit ther (lies its from personal experience)

Googlemyahoo · Answer

When I played vanilla WOW I used to group daily with the same couple and we never met in person just online but we jokingly called each other that. We stayed friends for awhile but purely online.

melanieeeB · Answer

Nope, like online friends okay yeah but relationship.. no

Ms_Facesitter · Answer

I have seen many do that and if they both really try to make it work, I see no problem. I don't think I can. I want him here.

Jamie05rhs · Answer

Absolutely not. You have to have at least met them once!

lalaloveee · Answer

I wouldn't describe him as my boyfriend unless I met him on rl.

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

Tried it. Hard to secure it without physical contact though.

Staximus · Answer

No. That's bullshit and they are fooling themselves. Anybody who thinks that they are in a relationship with somebody they never met in real life is a fucking idiot living in fantasy land.

44of69years · Answer

Yes but you need to build a relationship with them first

Idk27 · Answer

Okay, have you ever spoke to them on calls? Have you seen their face? I mean it can work out but you should meet them at least before being serious about it. People may be totally different on the phone then they are in real life, if I were you I would take it how it goes and not rush it. It’s almost like long distance but 3X worse from my experience. I would personally want to meet them but that’s up to you buddy.

JosyJosy · Answer

For sure. That's how the LDR's happen. The more you spend time with someone you get along with, the closer you get with that person, online or no.

TroyDT · Answer

Can be? Yes, it is possible to call someone that. Should be? Absolutely not.

Twalli · Answer

I won't accept that label until we meet in real life either

BlackElph · Answer

Yes. Most of my relationships have been like that but never again.

Lilymaryloui · Answer

Yeah, why not? Many people do virtual relationship but meeting irl after that, as long as they have commitment to meet irl, why not?

Smashingdoozy · Answer

I mean yeah. There's no rules around it. You can call it whatever the fuck you want.

Jenny-Marie · Answer

No. Online I could be a teenage girl or a rocket scientist, neither of which would be true.

RavVid · Answer

I think that essentially there is a mutual bond and commitment between a boyfriend/girlfriend. If that exists than you can call it so.

melodybluesy · Answer

only the two involved decide. you have to communicate these things! online or not!

AMS700CX4u2 · Answer

I am an old man and prefer a slower approach. Face to face erases many false impressions.

Anonymous · Answer

Nope. But if somebody likes that fictional world that's thier choice u guess.

MountAverage · Answer

I can't take that seriously. People who do that are emotionally extremely immature. Teenagers can get away with it, but if you're a grown up you have no excuse.

HippieVeganJewslim · Answer

Yes, they can, but it’s better if they would meet each other in person. I’d a few online girlfriends and don’t know if Christopher had ever been my boyfriend or not.

Anonymous · Answer

Not till you have met in person, and at least a few times.

Lincoln33 · Answer

Yeah is possible, if the girl or the guy is a good person and also willing to meet with physically, is possible

Guanfei · Answer

Feelings are real, as well as the person you're talking to. So in a way, yes.  Still, LDR are a mistake.

RedStiletto88 · Answer

I’ve never thought so, at least seriously anyway

WizzardGirl · Answer

No... becaue they canbhave wife and still talk to you

globetrotter22 · Answer

No absolutely not.

sheikalana · Answer

I don't believe in that but that's me.

Anonymous · Answer

Doesn’t seem like the same thing if you never met but I guess you could

LimitedBenefits101 · Answer

Most women are known to do that.

Kiran_Yagami · Answer

Can I put my dick in it? Then no.

msc545 · Answer

That person is your fantasy, not your SO

BeachMe · Answer

nope

Libidononexistenteww · Answer

Major Issues if u r w a person from online

ticklelover2045 · Answer

Long Distance boyfriend/girlfriend

WhitneySnow · Answer

I do think they can

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

Hilarious, AND depressing

johnboymuscles · Answer

Not unless you're 12

OnlinePeanut22 · Answer

It deponds on what. Is.

Methis · Answer

No..

maximumpower · Answer

NOPE

YoogurtBro12 · Answer

No way bri

captainggaming · Answer

I do think they can.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes.

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