meeting

[poison]

have any of you ever met up with anyone that you've met from chatrooms/ forums (including this one) who you've really clicked with??

[TheDeathKnight]

Yeah. Sometimes.

You can tell a lot about people's personalities by how they post.
But even then, once you meet people in person, you won't like all of them.
I've met up with people from boards, in a big group, and I ended up not
liking most of them. But I found 1-2 new friends who were really cool.

[corachaos]

Oh my yes! I met tons of people from LJ in Providence. I met most of my new Denver friends from the boards at GP (now sadly gone.) I met several "special friends" on line. The internet is an amazing tool.

[electricgoblin]

yes of course and I usually go out with them.

[purplepixie]

nope never

[Forestghost]

I've met up with a couple of guys, roommates actually...
Ended up hating both of them, however that was after the "interesting" night we had together first.....*shrugs* Not going to happen again!!!

[Morning Glory]

yeah one time I tried to meet up with this kid I met on the internet, but when I got there, there was only a bunch of guy's with coats that said FBI and they tried to grab me, so I ran away. what's up with that?

[Ouroboros]

I did, once. I always thought it a 'loser' thing, to meet with your virtual pals. But I did. And I fucked him.

[ForrestBlack]

I like getting to meet cool folks I know from online. I don't tend to do it on a one-to-one basis, but I've totally arranged to meet at clubs and stuff. Usually, I get to meet a lot of people when we go to conventions. The weird part is whe you are really familliar with someone from their posts and pictures, but you are not sure if you ever actually met them in the real world already or not.

[postcoital]

Many times, yes.
Actually, I became aquainted with my girlfriend over the internet, a couple of years ago.

[Amethyst]

Yes pritty much, mostly in meetings of irc channels. Some people have been dissapointments irl but most of them have been really interesting and cool.

[Enzan]

Never.

[GasmaskGirl]

yep.
the first person i met from online was a guy who lived in new orleams, i flew down there six years ago and we had a blast.

I met a few other people in person that i had known from some message boards and they were all pretty cool.

Then I met a certain guy that I had talked to online for years... and now we're living together and getting married in the spring.

And we still meet people from online. This weekend we're picking up a guy we met on the internet who is here in Virginia Beach, and driving out to Richmond to meet up with ANOTHER guy we met online as well.

[MistressJennifer]

The boys I have met online tend to get really too familiar and pushy. So I am a bit wary of meeting boys online. It is also kind of scary.

[skully]

its funny the biggest assholes on the message boards often wind up to be people that are not bad sometimes even pretty kool in real life... some of the people i find who i have the most expectations for (people i feel are completely awesome online) more often turn out to be not so kool IRL, it seems like they need more time online to think out a response or simply the animousity in order to be kool and that is lost when you are face to face...

i think it has to do most with how well you communicate online vs real life. i myself don't write good enough to express my mood's my humor or my ideas well enough... so lots of the translation is lost where as in person i can communicate much more complete (and read people better by observing body movements and facial reactions and verbal tones and such)

[poison]

thanks for telling me your meeting "stories"...the reason i ask is that i met up with sceptic_messiah (from this forum) last weekend and i was curious as to whether this forum had manged to provide new friends for other people...

oh! and congratulations to gasmask girl about being engaged to be married!

[LECHUZA]

Yes, I have! I have met a few friends from a chat room. Actually, I met my best friend through a chat room but we are not longer friends! but we had some good times for about 3 years.

[LrdSatanas]

ive meet qwite a few people online can't say it was the best of experences but it was fun. no one was ezxacally how i figured them out to be some where good some where bad. neve rmeet one person i knew for years on the net kinda regret it. but thats life.

[Goat on Fire]

Nup. Never. But if anyone of you is (for any reason) stopping by Belgrade, feel free to look me up

[Nightingale]

I met up with a penpal from Australia many years ago, and we spent the rest of her time in Germany with our tongues down each others throats. Aside from that I#ve never met up with anyone, and try to ensure that it isn't all *that* easy to trace me in order to met up.

[One Eyed Cat]

Nup. Never. But if anyone of you is (for any reason) stopping by Belgrade, feel free to look me up

I would definitely like to meet up with some Serbs. Were u ever into B92?



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[One Eyed Cat]

Oh my yes! I met tons of people from LJ in Providence. I met most of my new Denver friends from the boards at GP (now sadly gone.) I met several "special friends" on line. The internet is an amazing tool.

So it's worked out nearly every time?
I suppose I would be more inclined after reading LJ posts than in other forums (present company excluded)


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[hewhoisagod]

Never even thought about it.

[funkatron]

I've met tons of very cool people online first, and in real life afterwards, and I can't think of one that turned out badly. I did give one welts from spanking, though, but she was quite proud of them.

[bre.star]

Yup, many times. I posted on a rave forum for a long time and I used to meet up with people at the parties. I have some realllly good real-life-friends that derived from the internet. Some people can turn out to be real dickhead weirdos, but most of the people I have met became my friends

[CypherZA]

Nup. Never. But if anyone of you is (for any reason) stopping by Belgrade, feel free to look me up

I was in Belgrade 2 weeks ago, and then I did my monthy tour of BiH, I have lived in Bosnia for 2 years now...

[Macabre_Dreams]

Nope.

[CPRB]

yep. broken hearts....and a few friends too, great for going plac4es you don't know anyhitng about you kinda can geta tour guide.

[Macabre_Dreams]

I don't even know if I ever would. Depends on the situation, though.