Love On The Internet

When I started college at 29 I was almost totally computer illiterate. I learned how to write up a term paper but I had no clue about the world wide web. After a while, one of my friends pulled me into the college library and showed me about e-mail and chat rooms. He felt that it would be a good way to learn to use the computer without feeling intimidated. It didn't take long for me to get the hang of it and learn to navigate the internet in baby steps.

My first chat room was a "Trivia Chat" room. Since I was considered a fount of useless trivia, and always on the lookout for more, I was actually pretty good at playing there and enjoyed myself a great deal. One of my fellow chatters invited me into another chat room which was based on location.

I lived in Southeastern Georgia, but the locale nearest me was Local Jacksonville out of Florida. I soon found out that I was not the only "Georgian" that frequented the room. Over time I grew close to several members and we would sometimes meet either individually or as a group in various places like nightclubs, restaurants and at parties in some of our homes.

I was a single mother, college student and worked outside the home as well, so I soon found myself using the chat room for nearly all of my socialization. After all, I could chat, flirt and get to know people dressed in a flannel nightgown and fuzzy slippers if I chose to. Many times I would engage in private chats or whispers where the flirting became more sexually graphic . But the majority of my flirting was just a game and I was quite open about that fact.