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Old 03-18-2017, 05:18 PM
 
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I have made some friends through weekly pickup baseball and softball games organized online.

Also met my wife on OKCupid six years ago.
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Old 03-18-2017, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Columbus, Indiana
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I did, and I married him a year later. I also drove to Kansas to meet a woman who was a distant cousin. She and her husband turned out to be very nice people. I also go to meet some other cousins. It was a great trip!
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Old 03-18-2017, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Riverside Ca
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I used to gotta hunting and jet ski websites. I met a few local guys and two of them we meet regularly even after we both got out of jet skiing. The other guy I still go bird hunting with.
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Old 03-18-2017, 09:48 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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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?
I have made business and political acquaintances of one person online here, and another from the now defunct www.cbc.ca/forums. In the latter case when he and his wife came down from Canada to New Jersey to clean out an apartment after a relative died I bought outdoor tables and lawn furniture from them after having dinner.
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Old 03-18-2017, 09:51 PM
 
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Yes I have. I've met a few people from a debate forum I joined 10 years ago. Only two meets weren't terribly fun, but I didn't really have high hopes for becoming friends with them anyway. You do get to "know" people online, and I met with them only because we lived in the same city. The other people were a hoot - just like they are online.
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Old 03-18-2017, 10:07 PM
 
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Many times. From CD, no less. I met a man that I lived with for a year on CD. My FB friends are just oldies from high school. I still visit them today.
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Old 03-18-2017, 10:11 PM
 
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I've met up with people that I've talked to in a travel forum. A couple of times, several of us were visiting the same city at the same time. A dinner was arranged where we all paid for our own meals. On that same travel forum, I got to chatting with some women and one of them created a private chat room for us and they invited me to join. So far, I've met 2 of them in person and hope in the future to meet more. Also, it was in that same travel forum that I got to know a woman. When I discovered that we were also on a foodie forum, we became "friends" there and from there, we became friends in that website whose name can't be mentioned here Our friendship has grown quite a bit. She has had some health issues and we live a few hundred miles apart so we haven't met in person yet. However, we do text one another and have had a phone conversation.

What amazes me the most is that without the internet there was no way that I would ever have met all these people!
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Old 03-18-2017, 11:44 PM
 
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I tried to befriend a frequent poster here on CD...but at the same time, I guess someone else that she corresponded with (don't know if it was CD) catfished her & she lumped me into the same category. I am not a huge social media user, so that was kind of traumatizing...to be accused of that. So, no more for me.
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Old 03-19-2017, 02:11 AM
 
Location: Jupiter
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No, never have, never will. I don't use the internet to meet people at all.
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Old 03-19-2017, 01:52 PM
 
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Yup. Non romantic only, I don't do online "romance".

Some of these friendships have lasted over 20 years. We don't see each other often as we are spread all over the country, but we do meet up when we can.
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