Well,mostly I did not think it's gonna work (I said mostly).We have to get to know this person from daily life,not just from msgs or webcam.Maybe it would be exciting and interesting to try to have a relationship on Internet ,but have you ever thought that if he was just hiding under an artificial mask ?Of course ,once you two get on like house on fire,then maybe you can move to next step --meet each other and such ,but it's really hard to build a long-lasting relationship through Internet as I'm concerned.

http://www.sarayanews.com/home.php?mode=more&newsid=32419&catID=39 I just read this report and I translated it from Arabic, may this can answer your question Loved & engaged her through facebook then he discovered that she is a crafty girl on the police station. Young felled in a girl trap through facebook recently, electronic love spark launched between them which led this young to engaged this girl without knowing her identity. The young reported police that he felled on a fraud from a girl which told him that she works at a large company and after a period of time he asked her hand from her family. After he engaged this girl he introduced her to wife of his friends and they became friends, then this crafty girl asked this wife to join her to shop jewelry from her husband friend store and she bought jewelry cost 14,000 JOD(20000$) and without paying any thing just a guarantee of this wife since she is a customer for this store. This crafty girl also fraud a friend of her fiancé, she promise to sell him a cheaper chalet and she got 5000jod (7100$) from him. After a police search they found this girl and she told them that she sold all the jewelry. Source: Arab today newspaper 21-07-2010 * I hope someone help me correct this translation

I think it doesn't matter whether your recipient is a boy or a girl, when you meet only via internet. You won't see most of your internet acquaintance - so what's the point. In addition, you can't be sure that person is a girl/boy :)