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Cyberspace courtship: Are you and your mouse game?

Forget throwing on your new sexy LBD and strutting out to the local hot spot. Lock your door, turn the cell off and keep your comfies on! Online dating is the new wave hitting the single circuit. But is it worth it? An ELLE reader shares her experience ...

By Jacqueline Parker

#3 Flirting fever: Men are predators at heart, so imagine their glee when they receive over 20 "smiles" and "winks" a day from eligible lady-friends all over the world. This consistent barrage of interest acts as one massive virtual ego stroke for him and one big blow for me. Sure, I could work my "smiles" and "winks," too, but a female is a nurturer in her heart, so it's not necessarily in my blood. All I keep thinking about is turning into some sort of online concubine.

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OK, so I am sounding a bit fatalistic. Is it all hopeless? I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it isn't, and so are most of the women I talk to. Will online dating breed more bachelors than brides? While it might be difficult to determine, we still have to kiss a lot of frogs to find it out. Just make sure you wear a killer gloss... wink, wink.



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