Do online chats now count as dates?

I vote no, but the line gets blurry with technological breakthroughs such as video and voice capabilities.

I always expected the first online contact to be akin to that first conversation in a bar when a man starts off by giving you that "Hey, cutie" come-hither look before summing up the courage to sidle up next to you and say hi. Much like these physical interactions, boys online will send an assortment of over-anxious first messages with every line in the book from "I bet you get this all the time, but you have the most beautiful smile" to "which would you choose, finding someone you can love and be with forever, or being in total control of your very own dragon?" *NOTE* I did not make this last one up; I took it verbatim from one of my inbox messages.

Sometimes they catch you online and start a live chat. This seems harmless enough alright, except when a half-Jewish, half-Brazilian *stud* surprises you with a "hey, can I test out my camera?" and immediately feeds lives video of him rocking out with uninhibited table-slamming and air-drumming (sans sound) before you can respond.
Me: Haha, OK. New comp?
Half-Jewish, half-Brazilian stud: Yeah
(break for round two of SUPER ROCK-OUT SESH)
Half-Jewish, half-Brazilian stud: Sorry, it's Israeli music,
...because that makes it so much cooler.

But seriously now, did I get tricked into an online date? In a world of speed-dating on lunch breaks and cyber-sex late a night (or in the middle of the afternoon), where does this experience fall on the scale of Cyberpersonal Interaction?

Clearly, I still have much to learn.