Meetings

[low_delta]

Do you ever think about meeting the friends you’ve made online? I do.

I’m hoping to get to the southwest, to meet farbel. Serendipity was talking about getting (back) to the midwest. I hope to catch up with her, if she does. And I've gotta meet Ms. Fledermaus.

I have a pen-pal in Maine. I’ve been wanting to meet her for several years, now. I’m hoping to get out there this summer (and don‘t ask me why I haven‘t already). If I do, I imagine I’ll go through Whorlpool’s neck of the woods. It’s funny. I imagine if we met, it would start out a little awkward. After a couple of minutes, one of us would bring up Rush, and then we’d be cool.

But even so, with any of these people, How much time would we spend together before we started running out of things to say? :-) It is like that with any new friend you meet. Fortunately I've never found out.

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looking forward to it

[i.livejournal.com]

it will certainly be interesting. while we are the same people on or off line, that strange buffer called written english, combined with the lack of facial expressions, tells me that there will be surprises in store.

not awkward at all

[whorlpool.livejournal.com]

I am the number one easiest person in the world to get along with. I'm an introvert for the most part, but somehow people really feel comfortable around me. I'd love to meet you if you come around here; it'll probably be a while before i get to where you are, but maybe someday.

I've met a couple people in "real" life who i've met online first. It's been fine. There are several people I know online who i'd like to meet someday :)

Kind of a hobby of mine :)

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Heya freekee!

I've met a whole lot of online friends in real life. It's always weird, and usually wonderful. There's almost always an initial shyness on both parts, like: ok, now what are we supposed to do? But if you're truly friends online and aren't playing mind games with each other, you're almost always the same friends offline. There's a nugget of sharing between the two of you already, a unique connection that can be celebrated offline as well as online. I recommend two things: talking on the phone first, so at least you have voice recognition, and meeting several online friends at once so you have a kind of conversation buffer.

Best thing of all? The real life hugs!

((((Freekee))))

Re: not awkward at all

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure why I felt that, about you. Or whether I really believed that, or it was just pessimism. :-)

I am extremely easy to get along with also. Maybe I thought that since both of us are that way, neither of us would be active enough to keep things going. 8D

Re: Kind of a hobby of mine :)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

I agree about the phone thing. I've spoken with a couple of the aforementined. One reason I like the phone idea, is that if someone turns out to be a weirdo, maybe you can tell on the phone, and nix the meet.

A friend of mine says he's met a few friends from the 'net, and most of them turned out to be decent. He said there was one guy who was okay online, but turned out to be very strange in person. He had absolutely zero social skills, but could function in chat because he had time to craft his responses. The archetypal cybergeek.