heh. i've asked myself that, i'm happy to see this topic here. Online relationships, for me at least, are a bitch--especially when one already has the predisposition to attach to others quite quickly. It's like logic clashes with emotions. [which isn't a first, i know]
I mean, one knows that the chances for anything happening real life are very very slim, and being 'clingy' is much harsher from an online point of view--let alone lack of touch, taste, smell. The internet, my head tells me, isn't the place to get what i'm missing. [But tell that to the emotions that have formed ties not easily severed with people i've come to care for. heh]