Have you met people from the Internet?

neodoering · Jan 15, 2017, 07:57 AM

No, I never have. I've made a number of friends through social media, who I email and post to every day or two, but never met any of them. Met a guy on social media who was schizoaffective like me, and I suggested we get together for a coffee and chat, but he flaked on me. So that was my one experience trying to meet a social media pal.

Jan 15, 2017, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by divine1966

I went on few dates with a guy (met online) who turned out to have special room in his house devoted to confederate army paraphernalia. I thought he was just history buff but turned out he was a pretty military racist and so was his entire family including his baptist minister father. There was a bone fire by the lake and him and his father were making jokes about lynching. Oh he also denied that slavery existed, I am not kidding. They all seem like very peaceful nice folks until you really get to know them. Of course I didn't continue seeing him

Omg, that is scary stuff. Good for you not letting it put you off online dating.

Jan 15, 2017, 10:27 PM

I've met a few. I realize I much rather let online friends stay online friends. Its not that I think people lie or that I lie to others, but when you meet someone in person, you oftentimes find that they're nothing of what you envisioned as the mind tends to fill in the blanks of what you don't know or can't know unless you meet them in person. I guess I rather be able to keep that online friendship as opposed to risk it and likely have everything just go away. But maybe this is just me?

Jan 17, 2017, 07:11 AM

I have never met someone who I met online.

however, like the original poster, I did once live in the same area as someone

always a freaky thought to me