never went quite that far maybe one day

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Technically, I met her through other friends and only spoke on the internet with her at first and then met her. So, yes, I have met someone from the internet in real life.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Met my present wife back in 1998 in an AOL ThirtySomething chat room. Those were the days before dating sites or texting. We both had pagers and actually came up with our own texting system with numbers instead of letters. Once we had a series of numbers we had to figure out the letters that made sense. For example 45683968 was I love you. We actually got so good at it we could look at the numbers and knew what each other was saying. We married in 2000, and are still happily hitched.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

It didn't end well

by Anonymous 10 years ago

It went horribly

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I haven't met anyone off the internet that I didn't know already. A lot of the time, friends I make don't tell me where they live. I should hope nobody ever does.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

It was wonderful twice and so-so two other times.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

Yes and it's a very strange experience because people are sometimes different on the internet than in person

by Anonymous 9 years ago

I agree with that but I think some (or a lot) is because when you read someone's messages having never met them, you create a voice for them in your head. And with this voice, you kind of predict what their personality is like. So finally when you meet them in person, they seem completely different than what you imagined.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

What happens usually (in my experience) the modes of communication progress from online meeting to email to texting or IMing to voice calls to video chat. If you go though all of that, the face-to-face meeting is less of a shock.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

Indeed. I don't really understand why someone wouldn't at least talk to the person on the phone or have a video chat with them before deciding to meet them in person.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

well it's probably the surprise factor also, studies show (from online dating and matrimonial sites) that photos and webcam actually create these expectations that don't get fulfilled during that physical meeting on the internet you control what can be seen you show your best side webcam isn't exactly real time so you can sorta find the perfect angle so you look most attractive when meeting in physical life you don't control your angle they'll see you in many angles some not very attractive and those are the biggest cons for online friendships, relationships, etc. when faced with meeting physically

by Anonymous 9 years ago

Well, I never met anyone on a dating/marriage site. I haven't found the photos or webcams to be so different from reality. Getting to know people from afar has been a real boon for me. I've gotten to like them very much before I met them. To be honest, I doubt I would have pursued them had I met them first in person. I guess I have the Internet to thank for curing my shallowness. It also works in my favor because I'm hideous! :D

by Anonymous 9 years ago

my opinion is the opposite where the internet is to thank for pushing more shallowness like I said you choose to show your best pictures and your best angle seeing someone in 3D and 2D is pretty different but I'm glad it cured you of shallowness I figured shallowness gets cured with age

by Anonymous 9 years ago

I still don't understand the point of providing false photos to someone you intend to meet in real life. I'd rather be rejected for being too ugly in the comfort of my own home, rather than getting a meeting with fake pics, and being publicly humiliated.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

it's not a false photo it's an image of you that's 2D (because photos are flat) and usually taken at your best angle I don't think you understood what I said

by Anonymous 9 years ago

I understood what you said. Pictures I've seen are pretty fair 2D representations of what they look like in person. They are not frauds. I've seen people use blurry photos or really old ones, but they are obviously trying to pull one over on me.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

when I look through photos one person looks like two different people from one photo to the next because of lighting, angles, facial expressions, etc. look up how much of an accurate representation a picture is of a a person

by Anonymous 9 years ago

someone an amirite even told me "I don't even recognize you from one picture to the next. You just look so different in each one"

by Anonymous 9 years ago

@StickCaveman Once, I went straight from messaging to a coffee-shop meeting bypassing all the modes in between. She happened to be local, so it was easier that way.

by Anonymous 9 years ago

yup...he ended up becoming my boyfriend...that was over 3 years ago now....we are no longer together

by Anonymous 9 years ago