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

[ManOnFire]

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]

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

[ManOnFire]

Oh my God this kid totally ruined the whole thing being so goofy and beta. Wow, this was so hard to watch.

[MementoMori_]

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.

[ManOnFire]

Well said.

[midnightmoon05]

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]

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

[Jamie05rhs]

But you don't even know if he actually exists, if you've never met him.

[Pinay_ako]

@Jamie05rhs there’s FaceTime, video calls for that… I met someone irl after. It was amazing while it lasted…

[Jamie05rhs]

@Pinay_ako There's also holograms... Lol

[Pinay_ako]

@Jamie05rhs 🤣 Like I said I have met one irl after 8 months of “dating” online. It was better in person

[Jamie05rhs]

Lol. I bet it was! 😅

[katiesmuff]

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]

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]

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]

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]

No they can't until you have seen them facially

[ManOnFire]

Right.

[Cecinene]

😍🙏🙏😍🤗🤗

[Apple1996]

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]

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.

[ManOnFire]

I did a LDR yeeeeeaaars ago with a lady I met on Google+ (when it still existed). We talked all the time on the phone and even did face time, and I was calling this woman my girlfriend😂 Needless to say we never ended up meeting.

[NathanDavis]

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]

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

[Nikki1989]

Nope. They are only online acquaintances at best.

[ManOnFire]

Yeah, I just can't see calling a chick my girl until we really meet and more than once.

[Anonymous]

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]

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]

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

[Ms_Facesitter]

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]

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

[lalaloveee]

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

[ObscuredBeyond]

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

[Staximus]

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]

Yes but you need to build a relationship with them first

[Idk27]

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.