Face-to-face meetings with people you know from the Internet?

[Chruser]

I'm running into some people on Thursday, one person in particular whom I've talked to online for around three years of time, but never met in person. Does anyone have any experience in the matter?

[Grav]

Paint your face purple to confuse them.

[Mantralord]

I met this guy during a session of World of Warcraft. After impressing me with Chuck Norris jokes and ending his sentences with "FTW," he mentioned his massively multiplayer penis. I was delighted and was pleased to find out that he lived next door to me. While taking out the trash, he popped up behind me and raped me while yelling "BOOM HEADSHOT!!" all the while trying to shoot me in the head with his Deagle. I tried to run away but he just threw pictures of an owl with a caption that read "o rly?" into my face. He branded my ass with "ebaumsworld.com" and I figured that was the last straw. I managed to forcefully free myself from his grasp, and he attempted to faze me by yelling out his system specs. Unaffected, I tried to run away as he tried to blind me with blue LED 120mm fans. Nearby I saw the bicycle he came in and I hopped on and drove away. He quickly ran after me while yelling "Nigga stole my bike!" and yelling Maddox-style obscenities at me (asshat, shitsnake, pissbucket, etc.).

I escaped unharmed.

NEWEGG ROCKS!!

[Titusfied]

Well, I wouldn't consider it "running into them", since you planned to do so. If I was in another state and saw a friend, unplanned, then I'd consider that "running into them".

Oh, and no I don't have any experience.

[RoboticSilence]

I've been close to visiting people I knew from the internet before but never really ended up doing it. I was usually with my family and it would have been weird. Although, I was playing GRAW on the 360 with my friend and using Live. After about two hours we enter this really specific custom game and start talking to the guy hosting it. After talking to him for a bit he asks us were we are from and we say Colorado. Wow what a coincidence, he is also from Colorado. He asks us what city. We reply Boulder, and he says Boulder. We ask him what street he lives on and he says a location 1 block away. We ask which building and which SIDE of the building. It turns out we can fucking see him in his window because he lives across the parking lot from where we were.

[gruesomeBODY]

I havent yet, but the dragoons are going to have a party somwhere in the next 2 years so thats when we will all meet for the first time.

[Grav]

I've been close to visiting people I knew from the internet before but never really ended up doing it. I was usually with my family and it would have been weird. Although, I was playing GRAW on the 360 with my friend and using Live. After about two hours we enter this really specific custom game and start talking to the guy hosting it. After talking to him for a bit he asks us were we are from and we say Colorado. Wow what a coincidence, he is also from Colorado. He asks us what city. We reply Boulder, and he says Boulder. We ask him what street he lives on and he says a location 1 block away. We ask which building and which SIDE of the building. It turns out we can fucking see him in his window because he lives across the parking lot from where we were.
That's really kinda very quite creepy.

[KagomJack]

I'VE NEVER MET ANY OF YOU.

But I have met a few online friends before.

[pr0xy]

Meeting a friend from NY this summer and I have a bnet friend over for a party.

[Sovereign]

I met 2 online friends in real life. One I had talked to for 1.5 years, the other one 2 years. Both went fine, and was actually quite fun.

[Thanatos]

I've met chicks off myspace. Fucked a couple.

Good times.. good times.

[Medieval Bob]

I've done it a few times at big ass lans and the such. If you can get a picture beforehand so you're not looking for a green shirt or a goofy hat or something, it usually goes a lot smoother.

[Chruser]

I've been close to visiting people I knew from the internet before but never really ended up doing it. I was usually with my family and it would have been weird. Although, I was playing GRAW on the 360 with my friend and using Live. After about two hours we enter this really specific custom game and start talking to the guy hosting it. After talking to him for a bit he asks us were we are from and we say Colorado. Wow what a coincidence, he is also from Colorado. He asks us what city. We reply Boulder, and he says Boulder. We ask him what street he lives on and he says a location 1 block away. We ask which building and which SIDE of the building. It turns out we can fucking see him in his window because he lives across the parking lot from where we were.

Eerie. Does Xbox Live let you join servers sorted by ping? If so, clearly you'd get a lower ping if the host lives in the same city, but it's still very weird.

[Willkillforfood]

I bet he wasn't wearing pants.

[Jessifer]

I haven't personally, but my sister likes to meet people she talks to online. One of them I like to chat with, he's pretty cool for a 16y/o and lives in town. The others...One of them drives up from Indiana just to meet her for a couple of hours. It's like...a four hour round-trip drive just to spend an hour or two with her...

Makes me wonder.

[Willkillforfood]

Why wonder? You know he's getting some :P.

[gruesomeBODY]

low blow by willkill

[pr0xy]

Your mom should have received a low blow before she had you.

[Lenny]

Soooo...how'd it all go?

[Chruser]

Soooo...how'd it all go?

It was cool, although it felt really nervous / weird at first though. The girl I was to meet (whom I've known for roughly three years of time) called me before the meeting and said she was bringing a friend. Pretty cool, although 2v1 is slightly unfair, especially considering I've known the friend in question online for around two years of time. I guess I haven't always gotten along with her friend very well.

Otherwise it was fine; I was only threatened to get beat up by her friend once. The tensions loosened up a bit as we visited a café, then her friend left for practice, and I was given a tour around town by the girl I was originally meeting up with. Quite a blast I must say, they both looked even cuter in real life than on photographs. :)

[Titusfied]

Sweet! So, you gonna post her picture, or what? ;)

[JRwakebord]

I've met one person off the net, actually. My friend chuck (from school) introduced me to his friend Michaela (who he knew in person, but I only knew online), who then introduced me to her friend Lindsay (online). After talking for a couple months, Lindsay and I met in person at a local mall (she brought a friend aslong as well), and we hit it off big time. She was very cute and I ended up asking her out, and we dated for 16 months.

[gruesomeBODY]

and this is why ur dick is infested with crabs, chicks from the internet

[JRwakebord]

Um, no. That was the first girl I seriously dated, and we were the first each other slept with. It's kind of hard to catch STDs from a virgin, fuckface.

[Titusfied]

Well, what if she was a fuckface fairy or blow queen? Then you could get some. Jerk store.

[gruesomeBODY]

Yea what Titus said because i cant back up anything i say anymore.

[JRwakebord]

Nope, she was Little Ms. Innocent when we met. Not that that lasted very long...

[Led]

I did it, but the hooker was a man

[Penny_Bags]

LAWL-o-COST

[Hades-Knight]

I met a couple girls online from myspace and stuff.....one of them turned out awesome and we're friends now and the other turned outto be a party animal who lieks to get drunk and get raped

[Penguin]

I met taco irl. He almost got killed by some gangsters at the park while we were smoking bud in the car.

[Willkillforfood]

that's pretty romantic, penguin.

[MightyJoe]

Back on topic, I plan on meeting Sov eventually... Since he is a pretty cool guy, but there is no time table yet for this meeting.

[Thanatos]

Sov will probably make you sit down and watch Anime and then ramble on about Star Trek.

Have fun.

[Sovereign]

Yeah. And we can go to Trek Cons and Cosplay while pking in world of warcraft. High Warlord here I come.

[Willkillforfood]

Star Wars damnit, not STAR TREK. Duh thanatos.

[Sovereign]

No. He was right. Star Wars blows. Fuck you light sabers. Come on warp cores!

[Thanatos]

Star Wars damnit, not STAR TREK. Duh thanatos.

Sov is a Star Trek freak.

[MightyJoe]

...Some girl at my work is going to a Star something convention in Vancover. I was like wtf.

[Willkillforfood]

Is she hot?

[HandOfHeaven]

You should introduce her to Sov. A Star Trek geek and a hottie. Add in Diablo II and WoW, and Sov might just be so happy he'll shit himself!!!

[Kaneda]

I'm running into some people on Thursday, one person in particular whom I've talked to online for around three years of time, but never met in person. Does anyone have any experience in the matter?

klos met people from myspace...they were all fukin' weird.

[Sovereign]

Quite frankly, most peopel on myspace creep me out. I have never and don't ever plan to meet anyone off of it.

[Lenny]

Not even if they're really normal?

[Willkillforfood]

Everyone and their mother have myspaces now. It's not just psychos.

[Lenny]

Now that is scarily true.

I know about 6 people how have Myspace, and whose mothers have Myspace.

Mothers always want to check up on the kids and make sure they're OK...so why not Myspace too? :p

[Willkillforfood]

Police are also using myspace to track down parties and such.

[Lenny]

I don't believe that... why on earth should they? It's not as if partying is illegal.

[Penguin]

Minors drinking and the shootings that happen after parties are.

ooops forgot some kids dont live in the ghetto....

On a cold and grey Chicago mornin',
Another little baby child is born
In the ghetto
And his mama cries

[Willkillforfood]

Not to mention illegal drugs and orgies! D3v may be there preying on young'ns too.

[Penguin]

Oh drugs and orgies, I almost forgot the best parts of the party scene!

D3V is content on going to his kkk rallies, no need for parties when you have hundreds of white men in robes to hang out with.

[Willkillforfood]

Why not mix the two ...D3v can add drugs and orgies to the KKK rallies.

[Sovereign]

NEVER. 99% of them are hiding something in private posts.

[Lenny]

That still leaves a few million normal people...doesn't it? I forget how many have signed up globally.

[gruesomeBODY]

not alot lenny. Not alot at all

[Grav]

Millions are not a lot?

[pr0xy]

Millions are not a lot?
No... You noob. What the hell would make you think that millions is alot?

[Lenny]

It's actually less than a million that are normal. Around 80,000,000 have signed up.

[Sovereign]

In reality, thats only 1,000,000 emo's signing up under 80 different usernames to post in their own blogs to make themselves feel like the have friends.

True fact.

[Randuin]

I've met a couple of people when going to Siggraph. It wasn't all that weird :/

Depends how much you know the guy I suppose.

[pr0xy]

In reality, thats only 1,000,000 emo's signing up under 80 different usernames to post in their own blogs to make themselves feel like the have friends.

True fact.

Oh no... That means all my friends are emo =[ oh crap so am I! :'(

/crawlinginskin

[Willkillforfood]

Hurry and cut yourself before you get too upset!

[D3V]

I'm running into some people on Thursday, one person in particular whom I've talked to online for around three years of time, but never met in person. Does anyone have any experience in the matter?

I'm sure you'll meet lots of nice young gay men like yourself, just give it a try!