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Meeting people from the innerwebz

10,953 434 July 28, 2012 at 06:48 PM in Question
Has anyone ever met anyone they only know from online? How was it? Awkward? Fun? Unexpected? Interesting?

How would you feel about someone you've only talked to online and on the phone staying with you the first time you met them?

Someone I have been chatting with online/on the phone for 6 years is coming to town and staying with me for 3 days. I feel like I know her well online, but I'm not sure how I feel about her staying with me for 3 days. I'm excited about it, but apprehensive at the same time. It doesn't help that I have a touch of social anxiety to begin with. Then you hear horror stories about people who you thought you knew online being false. Thoughts? Is this unwise? Experiences?
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Maleficent
07-29-2012 at 09:25 PM.
07-29-2012 at 09:25 PM.
Quote from ashcampbell :
Scared ppl would find out you're that hot nerd chick that takes off her glasses and ponytail and blam your father tries to do you?
If he's a nerd, he's the dumbest one ever!
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princessann
07-29-2012 at 11:30 PM.
07-29-2012 at 11:30 PM.
Speaking of which, i am having my first meeting with some guys we having tweeting with for two months now. Don't know what to expect but will let you how it goes.
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Majide
07-30-2012 at 07:33 AM.
07-30-2012 at 07:33 AM.
No, I've never met my online friends in real life. Sadwalk But some people from a group I use to play MMORPGs with have met up in the past. They all met up in Las Vegas a couple times, but I was too young (poor) to go.

Now that I'm older (in other words: I have money), I don't have any internet friends to go visit. Down

I think there is only one or two of them I would allow to actually stay in my house with me, though. And I doubt they'd want to anyway.
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MsGal
07-30-2012 at 09:53 AM.
07-30-2012 at 09:53 AM.
I was on a political forum a few years ago and got to be friends with a small group of folks. One of the girls in the group got "involved" with one of the guys in the group. They had an intenet relationship for close to a year and then finally decided to meet up. He flew her out to California for a week but she only stayed 2 nights. She called me from his house in the middle of the second night and said he was such a freak, she snuck out to his garage, found a hammer and was sleeping with it next to her head, one eye open, door locked. laugh out loud

She sent him out for something from the store, called a cab and got the hell out of there. He stalked her online for months after that. If you've ever seen the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy", she said he was just like that guy (the bad guy), right down to playing creepy music and his canned goods were all lined up and faced forward.

Yeah, good relationships can/do evolve from the internet, but so do bad ones.
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someone28624
07-30-2012 at 10:00 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:00 AM.
Quote from MsGal :
I was on a political forum a few years ago and got to be friends with a small group of folks. One of the girls in the group got "involved" with one of the guys in the group. They had an intenet relationship for close to a year and then finally decided to meet up. He flew her out to California for a week but she only stayed 2 nights. She called me from his house in the middle of the second night and said he was such a freak, she snuck out to his garage, found a hammer and was sleeping with it next to her head, one eye open, door locked. laugh out loud

She sent him out for something from the store, called a cab and got the hell out of there. He stalked her online for months after that. If you've ever seen the movie "Sleeping With the Enemy", she said he was just like that guy (the bad guy), right down to playing creepy music and his canned goods were all lined up and faced forward.

Yeah, good relationships can/do evolve from the internet, but so do bad ones.
You couldn't save a story like that for after she was already here?
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idkist
07-30-2012 at 10:00 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:00 AM.
I met up with some folk IRL when I was playing WoW all the time. Also, when I was younger I met up with someone that talked to on-line for a while.
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veritablequandary
07-30-2012 at 10:00 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:00 AM.
Quote from someone28624 :
You couldn't save a story like that for after she was already here?
Hide your hammers.
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MsGal
07-30-2012 at 10:13 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:13 AM.
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You couldn't save a story like that for after she was already here?
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Hide your hammers.

VQ stole my line, dammit! laugh out loud
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veritablequandary
07-30-2012 at 10:15 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:15 AM.
Quote from MsGal :
VQ stole my line, dammit! laugh out loud
Comfort You can have it back... for a price. Evil
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someone28624
07-30-2012 at 10:16 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:16 AM.
Quote from MsGal :
VQ stole my line, dammit! laugh out loud
*double checks canned goods labels*

If I don't post tomorrow call the police!
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veritablequandary
07-30-2012 at 10:23 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:23 AM.
Quote from someone28624 :
*double checks canned goods labels*

If I don't post tomorrow call the police!
You should probably set up webcams in the lingerie pillow-fight area house. For safety.
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jbloggs
07-30-2012 at 10:23 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:23 AM.
Something to think about....
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MsGal
07-30-2012 at 10:26 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:26 AM.
Quote from veritableqndry :
Comfort You can have it back... for a price. Evil
What'd you have in mind? Evil

Quote from someone28624 :
*double checks canned goods labels*

If I don't post tomorrow call the police!

Wait a minute ... for all we know YOU'RE the freak. Stick Out Tongue
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07-30-2012 at 10:30 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:30 AM.
Quote from MsGal :
What'd you have in mind? Evil
Quote from veritableqndry :
You should probably set up webcams in the lingerie pillow-fight area house. For safety.
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Quote from MsGal :
Wait a minute ... for all we know YOU'RE the freak. Stick Out Tongue
All the more reason for cameras to be set up!
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UncleJase
07-30-2012 at 10:38 AM.
07-30-2012 at 10:38 AM.
I have met several people from the internet. I am a member of Jeep/rock crawling forum and a bunch of us meet up once or twice a year for a weekend of camping and climbing big rocks in our Jeeps.
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