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Meeting Partner Via Internet

I know a lot of people have mentioned that they were meeting potential boyfriends/girlfriends or have have found someone through the internet. I just wondered what your experience was of meeting somebody. Where did you meet? Was it a disaster or love? I wanna know it all! :rolleyes:

Reply 1

Jason_K

1

It can go both ways, I know of two people a guy from OZ and the girl from the Netherlands, they met over the net 6 years ago, recently she moved to OZ and are getting married soon. But then you get other extremes of people being killed.

Reply 2

Ethereal

19

Starsurfer

It can go both ways, I know of two people a guy from OZ and the girl from the Netherlands, they met over the net 6 years ago, recently she moved to OZ and are getting married soon. But then you get other extremes of people being killed.

I'd assume it's much the same in real life. I spose if you meet someone in a club, you don't know they're not a psycho.

Reply 3

Jason_K

1

But your surrounded by people, and you can tell, how do you know this "hootie" you have met isnt a 40 year old with other intentions?

Reply 4

petri dish

well, I met an ex-boyfriend from the internet, had a good year and a bit with him, so I think it went well personally..and through him I met some of my closest friends I have today, so I'm very very very glad it happened...

Reply 5

Fluent in Lies

2

Just be careful and it should be fine. Meet at a public place maybe take a friend or at least tell someone where you are going, what time etc.

Reply 6

saint_nic

Nah, people are different on and off the net. For example, there are a lot of weirdos on here who badmouth tons and take everything personally, but in real life they wouldn't dare talk jack.

Reply 7

SuperhansFavouriteAlsatian

Aww, my post got deleted. I thought it was a reasonable addition to the thread.

Reply 8

Anonymous #1

My boyfriend and I had never really spoken at school, but when we finished for the summer we started chatting every day on MSN. We talked online (and only online) for two whole years, then progressed to telephone conversations. Then we found out we were both going to the same pub one evening with our respective groups of friends, and by the end of the night we were in a relationship. :biggrin:

We are really, really close due to the two-year period in which we chatted online. It's great!

Reply 9

bone-machine

9

iv had two sets of friends meet through facebook....they are both very happy in their relationships.good way to meet like minded people.xx

Reply 10

apricot

10

I met my bf from the net because we found out we lived really near each other. i was so nervous! but we got on really well and have been with each other eva since (over a month now) and its almost like true love, its unbelievable who you can end up meeting! we spoke on msn 4 a month b4 meeting, we didnt even talk on the fone cos i was way 2 nervous!

Reply 11

Pandy

10

Nothing wrong with meeting someone online these days. It's just another way to meet new people.

Reply 12

*Fliss*

As long as you're careful about it, I see no problem with it. Its not quite the big crisis everyone makes it out to be these days. I know of a few couples who met through the internet and they're all super happy.

Reply 13

Glory

1

i met someone i knew from online for a few years, he came and stopped at my house. My parents were cool about it, they prefered he was somewhere they could keep an eye on him and me.

We dated for a few months, but with the distance and not being able to see each other regularly (lack of substancial income) plus the cultural differences (he was dutch) we just grew apart and he would become jelious at the slightest thing. I ended up breaking up with him for my own stanity, and so i could move on and find someone who i could see whenever i needed to. Without having a sea separting us.

Reply 14

kitten with a whip

Like a lot of other people said, meeting through the internet is not so bad as long as you're careful about it. A lot of people rush into it and get themselves into huge messes, you just have to really think about what you're doing and if you're doing it safely.
I met my boyfriend of over two years online. I didn't plan to, it just sort of happened. We talked for 8 months before meeting, and when we did, I made sure it was somewhere where I felt safe. We were very lucky in that we were the same sort of person online as we were off, and things went perfectly right away. We've been together ever since. We've gotten to visit each other four times so far, and things are going great.
Of course the worst thing, if it works out, is the long distance if you happen to live in different places. I'm in Canada and he's in Ireland...not exactly a place I can just drive to on the weekend. Long distance isn't for everyone, but if you know you've found the person you want to be with, it makes it a lot easier. We toughed things out and now I'm moving there in the fall to go to university and see what things are like when we can actually live in the same area for longer than a month!

Reply 15

rockthecasbah

2

I was young, stupid, it was a mistake :p:

The worst, most boring and shortest date I've ever had.

But don't let that put you off. If I'd have talked to him a bit longer I'd have realised he was an idiot!

Reply 16

Angelil

19

There have been quite a few threads on this.
I started emailing my boyfriend as a friend after meeting via my university web forum. I've been here since 2004; he was here as an Erasmus student from 2003-4. When we realised about a month later that we had feelings for each other, he invited me to Paris (where he was studying from January-March 2005). Despite not meeting until February 2005 we consider ourselves as having been together since December 2004. I know that sounds odd to a lot of people but they don't know what it's been like for us. When he invited me to Paris, we'd already exchanged several photos by this time and communicated by post, email and MSN. He also wrote to my parents enclosing his contact details (the postal address was of the university residence in Paris where he would be staying) and the contact details of his parents, inviting my parents to contact them if they felt they needed to. Given that he was 23 at the time and not really accountable to his parents, this was quite a nice thing for him to do!
The first time we met was at CDG airport in Paris in February 2005 and we've been together ever since :smile:

So there's no reason why it can't work - just take the appropriate precautions.

Reply 17

dogtag9

if you want to meet a monster and prank like myself, then go for it,lol. only jokin.

Reply 18

pumpkin7

13

well, i had a friend who met her boyfriend online, they lasted for a year, and my current boyfriend had a girl in canada for a year, though now he claims that wasn't real.. hm.

it can work in the right circumstances.

Reply 19

Pandy

10

pumpkin7

it can work in the right circumstances.

Bingo. The distance thing can be a major issue for most people though. That's what I found was bad for me the one time I tried long distance. Never again :frown:

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