Internet romance is a situation where two people are having a romantic personal relationship while communicating through the Internet. Meetings usually occur a considerable time after the two parties first meet on-line.

People may meet through online dating services, in online games, or through chat rooms and forums, which may or may not be themed around relationships.

One advantage in developing a romance on the internet is the fact that by the limitations of the net itself, it encourages people to have to focus on each other s personalities. In the absence of the physical stimulation of real life interaction, people have to communicate with words to get to know one another. Many internet romances do successfully turn into real life relationships, and those couples also reap the advantage of already knowing each other s personalities and having also learned to communicate well together. In those aspects, a couple whose romance first began online will be ahead of that of two people meeting for the first time in real life who haven t had the advantage of that prior internet communication time. When you meet someone you ve known for a length of time online, you are meeting a person who is at the same time both a stranger and also very familiar.