"MY name is Nevine, a Palestinian from Jerusalem, what's yours?"
"Radwan, from Lebanon but living in Dubai," comes the answer, and a new Internet friendship is born.
And the World Wide Web extends a little bit further with the first Internet cafe in the Palestinian self rule areas, the KM5 Cafe in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
KM5's owner, Majid Toutah (33) added four computers to a back hallway of his restaurant, hooked up to the Internet server company owned by his brother, and opened the doors of the new cybercafe last week.
"This is a risk, but when I opened my restaurant in 1985 lots of people told me that was a risk because no one was opening restaurants in Ramallah back then," he said.
Nevine Wahba (26), an assistant director at a Ramallah private school, linked up to the Internet at home three months ago but decided to check out KM5. "I spend two hours a night on the Internet, to look at fashion and arts and to connect with friends on chat groups. But if I meet someone interesting I can stay on until three a.m," she said.
Doing that at KM5 could add up. Fifteen minutes on the Web costs eight shekels, around $2.50. An hour comes to about $7 or IR£4.60 - around the average daily wage of a Palestinian.