Meeting Someone Online

United States
June 27, 2008 4:20pm CST
Do you have any experience with online relationships? How does a person really get to know someone by chatting? How do you know they are being honest about who they say they are? Has anyone had any successful relationships from online? If you decide to meet someone you have been chatting with, how long would you wait to meet with them? And, what would you do to protect yourself from a bad situation??
2 responses
@golfproo (1839)
• Canada
27 Jun 08
Hi There, I met my current girlfriend online and I can honestly say it looks like we will eventually be headed for marriage. It was very successful for me. In order to know if they are being honest, just make sure you have a lengthy email history with them. You will be able to spot inconsistencies in what they say if they are not being truthful. After the emails the next step is a phone conversation and then meeting for an actual "live" date. It took me about 2 weeks to get to the "live" date stage. cheers,
• United States
29 Jun 08
Congrats...with the relationship! That's really awesome. Hopefully, all will work out for me as well.
28 Jun 08
Well,i'd not a long time experience on online friendship,but i got some good experience with the few people i met even for a short time.You know,me i like to be a good friend in deed to all my friends both seen and unseen,all i try to do is to pt smile on anyone i meet(online or otherwise)face,by try to be truthful on my own side(THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT,COS IF YOU'RE NOT TRUTHFUL,YOU SHOULDN'T EXPECT ANOTHER PERSON TO BE TRUTHFUL TO YOU). By God's grace,i'd help a friend i met online to overcome loneliness,she was a Phillipines and i help her right from here in nigeria by chatting with her online.Though it wasn't easy for her to tell me her problem,but i just kept to tell more about myself(THE TRUTH)and some of my dos and don't and i asked her about herself,though she hesitated initially,but after many mails from me and other chatting we had,she told me herself,that she's having a likeness and confidence in me,and so,she told me her real problem,which by God grace i helped her to overcome it,and she was happy and wishing to talk to me on phone to really hear my voice instead of the normal typing from me. Another way,is by you asking forpermission to talk to the person on phone,then if you know how to ask question and get the truth,you'llknow if they are telling you the truth. I'd not meet any friend online that we plan TO SEE EACH OTHER PHYSICALLY,but,i'm hoping to meet one some day,starting from people in my country and move to other from outside nigeria. TO KNOW THE A TRUE FRIEND ONLINE,YOU JUST HAVETO BE TRUTHFUL TO HIM OR HER.CHEERS!!!