You & Your Online Friend?

Australia
January 13, 2013 1:47am CST
Do you have an online friend who you trust a lot? I do. We became really close in a short matter of time and we often send letters or presents to each other. We met on Facebook because we both had similar interests. What about you? Do you have a close online friend who you trust? How did you two meet? Have you actually met in person or plan to met in person one day? If someone you know said they were going to met their online friend? Would you try and talk them out of it in case it was someone dangerous? Happy MyLotting. ~AussieGal~
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@redredrose (1105)
• United States
7 Feb 13
I have very few friends on klu friends list on yahoo or facebook that i never met in person. Maybe 2 or 3 people all together because if i dont know you i dont usually add you even if we have simliar interests. Noi don't trust anyone online that i havent yet met in person. If i havent met you in person your still a stranger to me and alot of things i still dont know about you so no i wouldnty trust them at all or at least not enough to meet in person. Unless it was in a very public place and my husband was with me or something to that nature. I also never give my phone number or address to people i just meet online.
• Australia
25 Feb 13
Hello redredrose! Sadly enough a lot of children / teenagers go and met up with people they talk to online without telling anyone about it and something bad happens. I just know I wouldn't meet anyone in person by myself ( like you said ), I'd rather meet them in public if I trusted them that much but never alone. Thank you very much for answering. :)
• Bangladesh
5 Feb 13
Hi there i met someone online .. we are close friends now . if u do plan on meeting somebody lets just say be certain that somebody is good enough and likes u and that u like him/her too :) that way u can go wrong ... however if u feel otherwise .... talikng them out or making them understand logically is good idea ... cheers !! AussieGal
• Australia
25 Feb 13
Hello One_dream! Yeah I know what you mean. I trust my friend though. We have written letters to eachother, sent eachother random presents and have spoken on the phone a few times. I hope I can my her in person some day. I am glad you have a close friend who you can talk to. :) Thank you very much for answering!
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
13 Jan 13
I have met a couple of online friends and two of them have become my close friends in real life. I met one of them 10 years ago and the other one 6 years ago. We don't live in the same part of the country, but we talk on the phone, exchange text messages and emails and sometimes we visit eachother. I also have some online friends that I haven't meet. I have two online friends from my own country, we have been in touch for 6 years, but we haven't met. I asked one of them if she wanted to meet, but she prefers to keep our friendship the way it is (contact on Facebook and in emails) instead of meeting in person. I am curious to meet her, but I respect her opinion so I think that we will just remain online friends. My other online friend and I haven't arranged a meeting, but it is possible that we are going to meet one day. Some of my online friends are from other countries, we hope to meet in the future, but we live far away from eachother and neither of us have the money to travel to the other end of the world at the moment. I have found some very good friends online, I am really happy that we decided to meet, and I wouldn't try to talk other people out of it if they wanted to meet an online friend, but I would tell them to be careful. I wouldn't invite an online friend into my home if we had never met before and I wouldn't an accept an invitation to visit them in their home. I would always meet at a public place. That is the advice that I would also give other people. Meet your online friends, but stick to a public place when you arrange the first meeting.
• Australia
15 Jan 13
Hello Porcospino! That sounds really cool. You have been friends with them for ages! I can understand how your friend feels about not wanting to meet. Although maybe it's because she likes the mystery or maybe she is a bit worried because you can seem like an awesome and trustworthy online friend but doesn't necessarily mean you are like that in person. ( I don't mean YOU I mean in general with online friends ). I hope you can meet up with the online friends one day. Money and travel is one of the main things to get in the way of this. I really want to meet my friend who lives in South Australia but we don't have the money. Hoping one day we can meet though. We often talk about going away on holiday together. Seems fun and exciting but whether or not this takes place, who knows. Very happy you are a wise person and know how to be cautious about these types of situation. I have known a few people now who just think they can trust anyone. Pretty silly! Thank you very much for answering. :)
@AidanKay (265)
• Australia
13 Jan 13
I do have online friends but none of them are so close to me that I call them great friends or even decide to meet up with them. Can't really remember where I meet them but been friends with them for years and years. Although they don't really talk to me very much these days. Happy MyLotting to you and welcome!
• Australia
13 Jan 13
Hello AidanKay! Yeah I know what you mean. A lot of my online friends have pretty much stopped talking to me too although I guess it's my fault. Things change when you start growing up and a lot of people I know online or personally are mainly into partying and drinking and that's not who I lost interest in talking to them. Thank you for answering and thank you for the welcome. :)
@toyota4k (1208)
• Philippines
13 Jan 13
I have lots on FB. I have also heard and know of online friends getting married just as phone pals did before. In year 2008, two of my male friends got married to their text mates. When both had their first children, one was named Ericson and the other Nokia May. Lol.
• Australia
13 Jan 13
Hello toyota4k! I actually like those names haha. I haven't heard them before but they are unique. How very sweet they got together! Thank you very much for answering. :)
• India
13 Jan 13
I'm committed.And guess what? I found my love on Facebook. We became friends earlier. We came online for each other. That time we hadn't realized that we're in love. We used to chat daily discussing our days that were passing by. We exchanged our phone numbers. We talked daily and we still talk. We met on the new year's eve. He proposed me and this is how We got into a relationship.
• Australia
15 Jan 13
Hello simran05! aww that is so sweet! :D So how long have you two been together now? Are you still engaged or are you married now? Either way, congratulations. Thank you very much for answering. :)