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I’ve met a handful of folks, but local. There’s always those few brief awkward seconds when you first meet face to face that I hate, but well worth it to gain another friend (if you know what I mean ;)).
Who knows, maybe hopefully one day I’ll meet some BigBlueBall people! [:P]
One of my best friends, which I met online and lives in a totally other state. I travelled to his city and we hosted a LAN party for a bunch of his friends. It was quite fun but weird at the same time.
/me dreams about meeting Anna. [:P]
To the people that have met an only online friend… For the most part were the people (or person) you met the same as you had expected them to be? better worse? …just curious
I have met some people I met on the Internet. Two of them have become my closest friends, and three of them were in serious relationships with me, all went bad. Now I am fully convinced that Internet relationships, especially long distance DO NOT work. To this day, I prefer friendships and relationships locally so that way I can get to know the them better.
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To the people that have met an only online friend… For the most part were the people (or person) you met the same as you had expected them to be? better worse? …just curiousTwo of the first friends I met on-line in 1998 turned out to be what I have expected when I met them in real time. We remain very close to this day. 🙂
Ok, so this topic got relaunched just when I didn´t want it to be, lol.
I twice met someone in person that was an IM-only friend. Both were as I expected them to be, or even better than I expected.
With both I mantain a solid and caring frienship. One of them I even dated for a very short while, and even if it was short, it was good in its way.
We all have read about cases when it has worked out and cases when it hasn´t, I personally don´t think it has anything to do with meeting them on chats or meeting them at the library..how many people you meet in real life that you think you can go out with and then you discover…it was not a good idea?. The same happens with online relationships…there is no difference. Keeping your chat relationships local does not assure or increase your chances of getting a good thing out of it. Long distance is always hard, name it with someone you met in an ariport or in a chat room.
Recent psycological studies reflected to my surprise and, I am sure, to many other´s surprise, that internet society reflects real society. Meaning that, if a person is socially successfull in real life it will be successfull online. No matter how people try to hide their true self…it always shows up.
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Reflect it for the MOST part at least, truth be told… I’m painfully shy in person when first meeting, something I’m definitely not online.
And for the (zero) interested people, I’ve now upped the “meet in person” list to 6. Five local, and one… not so local (funny, we actually ran right INTO eachother at the SF airport). 😀
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Five local, and one… not so local (funny, we actually ran right INTO eachother at the SF airport). 😀And whats the story behind the running Into? lol
Not sure if it counts, but I met an online friend once, and dated her cousin for about 4months, and although short, it was very sweet.
Proves that even if the online friend is totally uninteresting, his/her aquantences might prove very pleasant 😀
I hate meeting online friends for the 1st time cos I tend to tense around new people in real life, so I won’t reflect my true self (not quite sure though which SELF of mine is TRUE, online or offline..lol). But I’ve met 4 out of curiosity. Even they’ve been good friends online, they turned into strangers in real life. Well, probably due to some connection error…lol.
I had a dude friend who wanted to come to America and bring me back to Africa as his wife but as soon as I found that out I got a new sn and stoped talking to him. I was only 12 and he was 18 or 19 I think.:eek:
I met someone on Buddypic.com (they talked to me first, hehe). Didn’t know who she was. She went to a different school and was one of my friend’s friends. I talk to her a couple times online and she stopped and talked to me at the movies, hehe.
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