Is internet powerful enough to play with emotions?

hareem01 · August 9, 2007, 2:54pm

Re: Is internet powerful enough to play with emotions?

The first time I got the net was when I was in my early teens, it was those AOL dial up ones…

I met this Bible-belt American my age in an AOL chatroom and thought I was in love, lol…

My God the conversations we would have, we’d probably have been lynched or stoned if either of our communities read them, it was a breath of fresh air, we were so different yet so similar, we were from completely different cultures yet had the same issues… We would talk about eloping and running away when we turned 18, we’d never even seen each but we had mental images from the descriptions we gave each other, we use to talk about settling down and buying our own farm in Devon or America, lolz, we had it all planned…

I use to get goosebumps every time I heard that “door creaking sound” that happens when ever someone comes online on AOL..

Once my papi was reading Urdu news on the Jang website using my username and this other person starts sending me this big message “Hiya sexy, I’ve been thinking about you all day at school today, I couldn’t keep my hands off myself…” My God, my father was disgusted “yeh kiya bayhooda bakwaas hai?”

“Abbu koi dost hai, aisay hi mazaak kar raha hai”, he wasn’t convinced but I guess due to the awardness of it all he pretended to be.

God I was so different back then, I could never run away and envision a life like that now..