My now wife and I met while in a chat app called ICQ.
She reached out after stumbling across my username, Sir Vantes, reading my Bio and liking that I lived in Seattle as well as appreciating that my affection would be seen in my actions as well as in my words. That she is still here after 21 years, married for ten, might count for something.
She was not the only woman I talked to online in those days and as one can imagine there were many steamy conversations with the others, but my lady had a quality of her own that had us talking about real-life goals and expectations rather than chat-sex.
To add my answer to the question here, online can be worthwhile if it is likely two people are going to be able to share a home in an in-person life. If not, swipe left.
