Meeting someone in Person from the Internet.

I have been married for ten years this last month to the man I met in Yahoo personals 14 years ago. We talked on the phone and emailed for over 2 months before we met in person. We were honest with one another about who we were, our needs, hopes and expectations. We know that is why it has worked out so well.

Shean, one of my ex-colleagues had met her life partner through online chatting site. At first, i thought she was just joking. Only when she bring him come to meet everyone of us at a restaurant, then we all feel believed. After a few months of dating through online and offline, they decided to announced their wedding plan. Unbelievable, now they had married for a few years and blessed with 3 lovely children. I would say, sometimes it is depending on one's luck as to meet their life partner through which channel.

It's something I don't mind, really. I do make sure I have spoken to the person for quite some time before I meet up with them or let them meet up with me. I only broke this rule when I was on a vacation in Australia in February this year. I knew my first boyfriend via Yahoo Personals and a year later he decided to visit me in the Philippines. He was from Canada. It didn't last as we had a lot of differences, we didn't really immediately become good friends again after the breakup because I have this certain attitude - I'm kinda slow to forgive and forget and accept. But after a year we were friends again and all is good. My second boyfriend was Australian. I knew him online and I decided to have my Oz trip after 17 months of knowing each other online. I had planned the Oz trip back in 2009 even before I knew him. He had a girlfriend back then. It was complicated and messy. I have shared a bit about it in some discussions here. I left and didn't want to speak to him again as I didn't see any point in doing so. I was hurt, of course, but that didn't stop me from exploring the country still because I was there for a vacation. I chatted with some people online and then met up with them and a few guys showed me around Sydney. It was only daytime dates though.

hi Jshean, I did in fact my referral here I just met her at Orkut we decided to meet and we are friends for 5 years but we act as we know each other for a long time. I met many online friends social networking or mylot in person and we have a great friendship. happy mylotting

It's not something I would encourage. It's a very dangerous way to meet someone simply because you can't really get to know someone that way. It's like when you pose for a photo, you always put on your best face w/ that frozen smile that everyone puts on for the picture that's about to be taken. Well it's the same thing w/ meeting someone on the internet. They show you the person that they want you to see & not the person they actually are. Just watch the news once in a while or that reality show where these grown men hit on these teenage girls & get them to agree to meet them in person. These girls are led to believe that they are abut to meet someone their own age, but instead are meeting w/ these men. This is just an example of course, but it does serve a purpose & that's to make us aware of just how dangerous it is to meet someone online in this this day & age.

I have never met someone from the online world and I would never dare to do so. I have watched a lot of crime and suspense shows that show horrible stories of people meeting online. A lot of girls have been tricked by older men and some were raped while some were killed. Because of those horrible stories, I would never dare to meet anyone online. i just want top be safe and protect myself. Happy mylotting.

I can ohnestly say that I have me and my husband used to get on yahoo messenger alot we used to go to a chat room and talk to people well this one time we all decided to meet in a local town and go listen to a band well we met the band that night and I will say I don't talk to the girl no more that we met but I still talk to the band members from that day we still go see them I would not change that for anything since the friend from the band is like a brother to me now.

I have met many people in person after communicating solely online and/or online, text, and phone. I met my husband that way and we have been together now for 10 years. I have some close friends that I have NEVER met in person yet because we live states away, but I have known them for years as well because they were part of a pregnancy and due date forum I used to post at before my daughter was born. I even have some people from HERE I keep in regular touch with over at fb and I hope to meet some of them in person someday. A little aside to any of the folks who posted a response to this and claimed it is unsafe, dangerous, or odd to meet people in person after meeting them online - IT IS NO MORE unsafe, dangerous, or odd than it is to meet up with someone face to face in real life that you don't know at all. If you've communicated enough online, you probably know MUCH more about those people FROM your communication online than the average 'real life but blind date' or 'I spent an hour trying to pick up on you at the local bar' type person. PLUS if you don't meet for months or years due to location or lack of time/vacation/money, you likely know each other very well and have developed a good friendship or relationship and a level of understanding and trust based on actually knowing each other without petty superficial things like personal appearance, putting on a show for a date, and other assorted things that ALWAYS happen in face to face relations.

As per experience I met up twice someone who I met online but after years of passing by. The relationship is slowly gone stray and those days are no longer be remembered. I don't know if I can find someone that really stay besides me until the end... Life really wonderful and hard to understand sometimes. But I do believe that relationship online is not a matter of concern but a matter between the two person to be love and be in love...

Not only have I had the opportunity to meet many people in person that I first met through the internet, I also have to say that one of those people is now my husband of the last eight years. There were some people that I met online that were not at all the person that they claimed that they were. However, in my experiences I have found that the majority of those people that I've met in person really have been the person that they said they were through the computer.

I never meet my online buddy in real yet. But soon I will meet one of them. I dont know what would happen but I hope it will be good thing. I like to have friendship with many people and it will be a pleasure if can make it from online to offline.

I'm not a person to make relationships on the Internet. I just don't get it. People can say anything about themselves, they can lie, they could be perverts, criminals whatever. Also, for me, I don't feel as if I get to know them, because I don't see their real reactions.

meeting someone in person from the internet, its true bec. i meet my husband in the internet, and that is my worst thing it happend in my life after the married. he is irresponsible for me. bec. he said your money your money and my money is my money, i have been have a high blood when he said that to me. but some people are have a good relationship in the internet. and nice to meet other person from the net. but it not good bec. not all people are real they may show some good but its not i that all his real him. just be careful in the net to meet some one.

i think some of them had a successful stories because our neighbor met a foreigner and they are compatible, and they got married.. ^_^

I have dated someone I met online but the relationship didn't really last. No one I knew knew him but I did have him meet me somewhere with a lot of my friends.. Honestly I think he turned out to be homosexual. It doesn't bother me in the least that that happened. I feel sorry for any partner of his though as he treated me very badly. He never hit me though, so let me make that clear. It is dangerous to meet people online, but at the same time you just have to know what you are doing.

OK so you are going to meet the virtual man in real. May be facebook has brought you to that and as most people stories it all began with simple like dislikes, shares, chats and so on. You have heard of so many success stories and that only make up less than 1% of success in life. Most facebook fans like meeting up with strangers are just failures in life. If you feel that you have been offended then don't come into conclusion soon. You use facebook, you meet up a person who has some actor pic as his profile pic, or some handsome guy pic and his profile pic. What other step may be the must have learned something from Pandora Box and tried to apply here. You like it and you fall for it. Sooner or later you meet him. He is not what you see in profile and still he must be good as he used to chat sweet, so lets marry. Later found you out of boredom sitting alone and he still with facebook chatting others and again going for celebrating his next marriage. Such people can never be trusted in life some just use facebook as source to get good girls and later commit them to do sins for what they are not meant for. Facebook craze is OK but not with life. Technology is different and life is different. Don't play it like a game. Think carefully. Sometimes the other person is not good, may not suit you or maybe he is a part of some gang. So think carefully before you do anything.