dEhiN’s Blog

Check out this article about a blogger who fell in love with one of her commenters, and they are planning to get married.

I’ve heard about couples getting married in MMPORPGs (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Game), such as Everquest or World Of Warcraft. It usually happens along these lines: the two players meet each other through the game and initially chat through the game while having their characters complete game tasks together. Eventually the players decide to meet up offline and love blooms resulting in marriage. Apparently on Everquest there are even couples whose characters are married in the game as well as they – the players themselves – are married in real life!

Coming back to the article, I have to say that this is intriguing.  In one sense, I’m not the least bit surprised this situation arose, but instead perhaps surprised it hasn’t happened sooner. I find it interesting that some other major bloggers have negative reactions to this. In fact, I like the way the article is written – as a modern day peasant-and-bourgeousie situation in the blogosphere. I wonder if these nay-sayers do, even sub-consciously, see themselves as above their commenters?

For me, all of this comes down to one thing we need to remember: people will use whatever they can to meet a life-partner. Let me rephrase that to something more pithy. Love knows no boundaries and will blossom in whatever soil it is given. As long as a medium allows some level of human interaction, that medium can be used to meet your future spouse/partner/significant other. And nobody should be surprised at that. Now I wonder if the various social media and social networking sites have been used as matchmaking tools?

DH