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

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?

Paint your face purple to confuse them.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

That's really kinda very quite creepy.

I'VE NEVER MET ANY OF YOU.

But I have met a few online friends before.

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

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.

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

Good times.. good times.

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.

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.

I bet he wasn't wearing pants.

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.

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

low blow by willkill

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

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. :)