What kind of person is Alexis? What kind of person is Craig? Similar, it seems.

After reading this interview about Alexis and the love she found online, I do believe that she fell in love. However, I believe that she only found it because she was searching for it. She was searching for some kind of connection with someone. She says that she "was feeling somewhat isolated and lonely the months she found herself chatting online with people" and that she didn't get along right away with the other students at Lehigh, which is why she started to chat with people online. She wanted to find someone to connect with. Craig was also having a similar situation with his at the time girlfriend, although we don't know his entire story, where he was feeling frustrated and a little lost since it seems he was being disrespected by his current girlfriend. (On a side note; nowhere in the interview does she ever say that Craig broke up with his girlfriend. Maybe that it just implied, but it makes me feel a little uneasy about him.) I feel like he had nowhere to turn and no one to talk to and this is why he opened up so easily about his relationship to Alexis. Since they were both in the same place, they could easily feed off each other and fill that empty void that each of them was carrying around. I am not really sure I believe in finding love online, but I do believe that if Craig and Alexis were both not going through the same type of feelings in their lives, this would not have worked. 

I know I sound jaded about this finding love online, but I have known a few people who have tried the online dating sites (eharmony, match.com, etc), which are completely geared towards finding love online, just because they wanted to try them out and see if possibly some great guy was hanging out there. They have not found anything close to what they wanted except lost, desperate people who are searching for a connection. They have gone back to finding love the "old fashioned" way. In my experience, love is best discovered when you live your life and let love find you rather than going out and searching for it. Then the love only adds to everything you already have, instead of filling a part of you that you feel like you're missing.