How can you love or hate a total stranger??? Like you said they can "annoy" you.

What's up with the clown avatars? Can I use it too?

*phew*

sure

Well said.

oh, i wasn't thinking about a 'total stranger' but rather just someone you've spoken to online.

it's amazing how well you can get to know someone by staying up for hours, night after night, watching their expressions on cam.

providing they are being truthful and honest, it's just as easy getting to know someone online than it is in real life, if not more so since i think the screen offers you a little bit of security in how open you are. also, with the physical out of the way, the concentration really is on what you say, and how the other person 'listens'.

well said

hate is the stronger

it gives control of your inner being to a negative force

at least love is a positive force

"Hate is easy but Love needs courage"

Personally i feel love is stronger because the only think that can stop "HATE" is love!.

I do think it takes real courage to love, but it takes a true hero to admit love for someone they think they hate.

As for the second part of the question.....personally i feel that you can't really fall in love with a person without meeting them because otherwise you are just in love with some imaginary fantasy in your head. Without meeting the person, you just build up that person and put him/her on a pedestal whereas the real person is going to be nothing like that. So basically, you'll "be in love" or be infatuated with a version of the person you've made up in your head.

"You can't be in love with a stranger but you sure can have a huge crush for them!!"

I can decide I may like someone online, but would never fall in love until meeting them and spending a good deal of time with them in person.

As far as hating someone, I try not to hate, have had some really strong dislikes for some people. Okay, my ex fit the hate category, but he really earned it.

I have run into some real idiots online that attacked me in e-mail and called me names and other things, I wouldn't say I hated them, but I sure did wonder about their sanity. One a couple of weeks ago was "way out in left field." Had another guy call me vulgarities because he has become "jealous and possessive," obviously is a controlling type of person, the exact type of person I don't like.

I must agree with this well except Papersmile I like ya not love ya hehehehe

Hate is a very strong word I have had run ins with some that I will admit I do not care much for but I do not hate them maybe pity them for they can't see the words they spew and the harm it does to others. Or even at times how they misjudge others. But..........that is for them to live with not me. Most that meet me and really get to know the true me will find out real quick that I treat others the way they treat me.

I grew up being taught that if you hate others that hate will eat you alive through the years. Therefore I was taught to just forgive them and learn to move on. And I have tried to teach my kids the same way I don't even like to hear them say they hate anything dislike I can understand but not to hate.

Everyone is different in their own ways but why let hate make you a bitter person within when it is just as easy to forgive and move on don't let another stir that much emotion within unless it is for the good.

I hate green peas

i hate okra

Hey where'd my don't be hatin smiley go?
It did'nt post...

I hate it, errrr...I mean dislike it when that happens!