Love in the 21st Century

Our eyes met across a crowded net... We found ourselves finishing each other's instant messages... She's got her own login account on my PC...
I'm in lo...

Yeah I know, that sounds really false and superficial. Online dating is, perhaps rightfully, looked on as somewhat pathetic.

I did meet Jane online, but because it was first via our respective blogs; and then via some tentative emails that were agenda-less and friendly; and then loads of real-life meetings; at no point has it felt like an "online" relationship.

If the Internet hadn't existed we'd never have met, probably. But then again, if the Internet hadn't existed I wouldn't be the type of tranny (or the type of person) that I am today. Over the last decade or so, the internet has shaped my life in numerous ways, nearly all positive.

They say that the jet engine shrank the world, but the world still seemed a big empty place when I was growing up a child of the jet age. If jet travel shrank the world, then the internet miniaturized it. All of a sudden the whole world was in a box in the corner of the room.

There were other trannies there, and all of a sudden rather than the drip drip of tranny culture I'd been subject to, I was encountering a deluge. I learnt from the Internet, among other things, how to cope with being a tranny and not feel wrong and dirty.

Once that was sorted, I could use it as a strength not a weakness. Through the internet I started making new friends, both tranny and straight. One friend has turned out to be very special indeed.

...I'm in love. :-)