anyone ever met up with someone they met online? (wife, cousins, conversation)
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I met a few people from an old AOL message board I used to frequent. Still in touch with them on Facebook, those I met plus others around the country from the board.
I've met one person from City-Data in person. It was fun. I plan to meet another soon.
i post pretty regularly on this one local<edit> social media site and another regular poster invited me to an event. i have never met a person in real life who i met online. does this ever work out and people can become actual friends? or is meeting a real person different than an online persona?
Sure. I have invited online friends to my home to meet for the first time. I have also thrown parties at Science Fiction conventions for people who were members of a particular discussion group. In the days before AOHelL, we used to throw @ parties for anybody who was on the internet. Public internet put an end to that. I think my last @ party was about 1991.
I've done it twice. The first time was meeting up with a female friend to attend a concert, the second time was a guy whom I met through a dating website.
We met a very nice couple on a phonograph web site that my husband belongs to. We've also met two people in Maine and one in Scotland that I talked to here on City Data. There's quite a few more that I'd love to meet in person. A couple of them are also my friends on Facebook. There's one in Indiana thta I've been trying to get together with for about two years now. Maybe some day soon
Oh yes I met my husband in Holland when I was co-moderating a classic rock group YEARS ago on MSN when they still had groups. We'd "known" each other for quite awhile before he invited me and I flew alone 5000 miles to the Netherlands. This was not unexpected behavior out of me though.
wow really? how does that happen? genuinely curious
We *met* on the Missouri forum, one of whom became our realtor and friend. Every once in awhile a group of us who lived fairly close by one an other would meet for pizza. It was fun. Nice people!
When I lived back in California a half dozen of us from another site met when I gave them an insider's tour of the Capitol, my 'second' office, and another time for drinks. Good times also.
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Back on the AOL chat rooms there was one that a lot of us frequented. Thirtysomething 1. Fun times! After a year or so of us getting to know each other we started having get togethers in different cities and meeting those we conversed with.
I met my husband in that 'room'. 1996 we officially met and we married in 2000. Almost our whole wedding party were TS1 roomies. Hubbies best man was from the state of Washington. They came from all over the US. We still keep in contact, on a different social platform, and are still friends with a lot of them from back in the day.
Our wedding was a fantastic party. Many AOL friends came to help us celebrate.
I used to live in Israel and was active in a few online forums there. One (a foodie group) I'm still active in, and the group meets twice a year as a group, and several times a year smaller, local groups get together. I'm close with a number of people from that group.
I also met a few people from an online American forum a few years ago. And I'm fb friends with some of that group.
I also met people on a meet up group for a specific sports hobby.
I say go for it. Obviously follow the basic safety rukes: meet in a well out public place, have your own transportation or a way home if you need it, and make sure someone in your real life knows where you are.
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