In a piece about the joy, heartache, and financial loss of cyber love in China, The Asian Sex Gazette reports that a mother in Zhengzhou of Central China’s Henan Province has found the Internet to be a handy way to get to know her college student son better.

The son hung around on campus and spent all his time chatting online during holidays. He seldom talked to his parents.

Acquiring a virtual identity herself, the mother surfed the Internet and became a very good net friend of her son. She said she soon learned a lot about his life at the university, which is located in another city and grew to understand her child more.

The mother told a local newspaper recently that she is now worried about being discovered because she enjoyed chatting so much she just cannot stop.