Virtual Spouses
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Marriage without fuss or bother or even fleshly existance.
They’re at that point in their relationship where they’ve got pet names for one another — he’s her Analog and she’s his Apron — and yet they’ve never met face-to-face.
Theirs is a fictional union, a digital farce. One online personality “wedding” another. There is no legal backing behind their union, no long-term commitment, no signed marriage certificate, no tax benefit to reap or prenup to deal with.
Just a guy who likes an online girl and a girl who likes an online guy.
Together, they’re exploring what could be the latest frontier in relationships: online marriage
.The unions are increasingly common, thanks to highly interactive online games (i.e. World of Warcraft), social-networking sites (like MySpace.com) and virtual worlds (such as SecondLife.com). One Beijing-based publication estimates there are 100,000 online married in China, a country where the practice seems to be mushrooming.
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GetMarriedLive.com has logged nearly 6,000 online marriages, and hundreds more took place the first week of June at Irom.org.
First comes logon, then comes ‘marriage’