Internet friends~

Have we met?

 

you are a sweet heart compared to that sleaze ....

Imaginary - You get what you reflect sometimes ....

:2thumbsup: @ Glen Glen ....

Rak there is always new adventures! Travel to America ....

Invisible soul, that's interesting its your only means of communication with the outside world..

Nice one Jo that's a awesome story, what a total gem !

Goofy that's amazing! I guess you can real get an insight into each others minds meeting online, some people may say that's a shallow connextion but when you really think about it its pretty name deep to write to each other every day!

 

I met this girl once I think through something yahoo. She had a cam and I didn't and she would put her cam on when we'd chat. It was kinda cool that she would give her face time even though she couldn't see mine. We didn't keep in touch but she was a nice internet friend

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I can't forget Wil from tribe(.)net (dead forums) he was a really sweet old dude. Really geniune person. I fear he may not be alive because last time I logged in there was -nothing- new from him. I'd like to meet him and give him a proper squeeze if he's still kickin :shoutout:

 

Like everything in life, it has it's good and bad virtues.
It's good because it provides new opportunities and avenues for positive communication. But it's also bad because the simple written words of strangers are able to suddenly have a strategic importance in people's lives which can be harmful in some ways.

People can edit their words and seem much more perfect than they really are in real life, and conversely other people can be too easily dismissed because their identity is reduced to mere words on a screen without any connection to a real living person.
Just look at all of those people trapped in sting operations trying to hook up with minors on NBC's Dateline.
Sure there is criminal activity, but how many otherwise honest, sincere and relatively innocent people have been led astray by bad advice from seemingly reputable, trustworthy people over the internet?
Everyone has a personal bias of some sort, so is there really such a thing as objective advice?

Since the internet aids people, and greatly influences others, it becomes a weapon of a sort > and just like any other weapon, it must be used responsibly. Personal responsibility is just what it sounds like it is, everyone's own personal responsibility and in the end, it's no one else's.
So ...let the buyer beware

 

You should make it happen, if he is still alive regrets arent cool in this life-

Yea Jack, I hear ya ! I brought a tow bar via the web and it was old and crap and I had no come back on it- and a few years ago some herbs that turned out to be not very healthy. Now i never order online twice bitten!

I did someone first online who gave us a very tough time,they offered be a guide in an area we were new too - instead he was after something very different and not too happy when it didn't happen.....
If we had not have met him it wouldn't have lead on to my son meeting a soul brother and us staying with a family in the states it was all good in the end! But could have been a very nasty situation, we were really lucky...

 

i do.

i'm referring more to those i've known a little more personally.

 

i don't understand what you mean.

it seems rude

either way i'm not insane.

you never know

maybe i actually have had some bad experiences with people

you never asked.

 

I don't mean to be rude, its a funny description crazy as painting balls with hedgehog poo ......

 

haha that was supposed to be walls

not that it would make any difference i guess.

 

There is a vast difference between painting balls and walls ! hahaha...

The good experiences out way the bad hopefully hey?

 

i've met a couple of really nice people.

but truthfully

there's not so many people who've actually tried to befriend me anyways.

i just talk to people on the forums.

 

"Interesting"? Well, that's one word for it I guess... lol

 

don't sympathise with me

i'm feeling needy

you'll regret it :mickey:

 

I met my b/f online when I was 15 we have been together just about 10 years now. so I think thats a pretty possitive thing

 

Wow 10 years is going some- I have never met anyone of that nature online then offline.

I did talk to this guy once for a really long time like on and off for 2 years, in the end we seemed to read things wrong and let it go to far to ever meet up. I never got close to anyone online after that as it took up heaps of my life and massive chunks of time. I also have a awesome imagination and I feel I made this person out something they were not. Good and bad.

 

Thank you Imaginary being Il take the positive rep as a compliment from you :2thumbsup:

 

Well, I can say that I have made contact with quite a few interesting people on the 'net - starting at college, in the mid-1990s, when I met a few students in one of the computer labs, sitting at xterms, running real Unix (HP-UX)... they were playing on something known as MUD ("Multi-User Dungeon")... and since I knew fantasy role-playing games, I quickly got absorbed in that virtual world, the game system based on AD&D. And about half a year after meeting people online, our gaming group went to visit one of the admins of that MUD for his b-day in Hamburg...

We later met for several parties, including a BBQ near the Saar river and a party with people from Germany and the Netherlands... the Hamburg party was in winter, so I was shod there... but the two other ones were in summer, so the gamers met a barefoot hippie...

(to be continued... next role-playing game meetup stop: Sweden and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern...)

Wiggling bare toes,

~*Ganesha*~

 

That is a cool story- I met some of my soul connected friends thru a forum - we set up our own forum later and then I left to set up my own community one. I no longer work on either forum but it was a good time in my life, we did a couple of gatherings and camped out on wild lands! We all stay in touch and always visit each other if we are in the area.

 

My best experience has been corresponding with Adult film actresses lol.