anyone looking for a relationship?

By searching on Google for a singles chat room, I was led to chat-avenue.com, a place that at first I wanted no part of due to the explicit sexual comments that were scrolling way too quickly across the screen. With over 100 people in this chat room though, I thought maybe I could find a person to talk to and at that moment John typed in, “Anyone looking for a relationship?” I immediately responded to John and we started private messaging.
My initial impression of John was that he was boring and cold, making me carry the conversation and answering with short and to the point responses. However, as I continued to talk to John my impression turned to one more of pity. After getting over the initial age, sex, location, and looks information, he asked if I wanted to play a game where we could each ask each other three questions and no matter what the question was we had to respond honestly. I agreed to this game, and we started asking questions.
Although some of his questions were sexual and a little uncomfortable, I learned a lot about this 19 year-old from a small town in Indiana after only an hour of talking. I found out about his job working the 4am-1:30pm shift at the local Target, his shy personality that made it hard for him to meet girls in person, and the death of his dad when he was ten years old that led him to get a tattoo on his arm in his memory. At the end of my conversation, after giving this boy a fake email address, I was left with an overall good impression of him. I thought he was a lonely boy, looking for comfort from other people in any way that he knew how. He seemed open and agreeable but extremely introverted, which made me feel a sad warmth emanating from him that made me want to keep the conversation going.
The theory that was most influential in my impression formation was the Hyperpersonal Model. The first factor was the over-attribution process, which made me think John was unintelligent or of low economic status for not attending college and having to work a hard shift. We never discussed his intelligence but from the information he revealed to me I formed this impression, which ultimately made me feel pity for him. The next factor was the developmental aspect, where initially I was uninterested and turned off by the conversation. However, as we continued talking, I was able to learn more about this boy and in turn develop a better relationship and a better impression of him that I think may be even greater than if I had talked to him in person. Due to his shy nature, and the intensity of some of the topics we discussed, he only revealed the information about his father and even the status of his virginity to me because the CMC allowed for it. He was able to feel a sense of anonymity and comfort from talking to this stranger and therefore divulged more personal information about himself.