Do you meet your online friends in person?

I have never met anyone from the internet before and to be honest I dont want to. I like to keep my online life and my personal "normal" life seperate. I think its great that alot of people have made life long friends from the net but Im afraid its not for me. Im also a member of interpals.net which is a penpal site and Ive made a few penpals and I dont think I would like to meet them im person either. I like that fact that our friendship is on paper! Emma :)

Are you asking me If I meet them? I think this isn't a correct question. The correct question should be: Will you meet your online friends in person if get a chance? Because I am ready to meet anyone but whoever I ask to meet goes away. Of course I can't meet person from Australiya but my country. I have asked them to meet and they denied it. So, Yes, I would like to meet all of you one day, if get a chance!

In India while I was studying, I did meet a girl once after chatting over the net for 2 years. By that time we were good friends over the net. I met her when she moved to the same city. I fell in love with her when I saw her. I am now happily married to her. That was destiny. You can meet good people. But there are horror stories too. It is very difficult to make out over the net who is telling the truth. Many of my friends have had bad experiences of meeting their online friends. My wife and I have been the lucky ones.

I don't meet them in person. I like to keep my friends online to stay online friends. Some people might not be who they make out to be. For me if they're online close friends, they still stay online friends.

I have met the person that I chatted in the internet for several months. He is a Taiwanese man studying English in one of the language institute in the city where I live. The doubt was always there before meeting him. When I finally realized that the intention was really good. I agreed to meet him in person. I felt very uneasy during that time. I even conceal myself in one corner and waited for that guy. If the guy looks horrible and appearance didn't match from the information he has given me. I will just go away. I wonder what expectations he has for me. After meeting him, we became good friends and partners in business. Now, he went back to Taiwan and we continue our communication through the internet. Maybe I was just lucky.It is not bad meeting the person met online. Just make sure that you are safe.

Well, this was just one of my experience, and it the only ONE experience that i had on meeting an online stranger. I don't know why i met him, maybe i was curious to what he looks like..He was a stranger and probably got my email somewhere and we started chatting and became friends. I've forgotten who initiated the meet up but i went anyway..But when i met him, he wasn't that much different from what i had expected. A tall guy, wearing specs and a short and neat hair cut. He was as friendly as he was online and he wasn't like those praying perverts out there, he was like the average joe. I'm glad he didn't ruin my views about him by behaving differently =)

Hi rakesh, since I have been writing posts here frequently for such a long time, there is no doubt that I have made a lot of good friends here online. Anyways most of the good friends I have met here are inactive at the moment. They have gone without leaving a single word. It would be best if they would come back again. Nowadays I have met more good friends here. Anyway I haven’t met any online friend yet in person. I think I would prefer to keep contact with them online closely more than to talk face to face in our real life. I am used to talk with them here looking at their avatar and username. I wonder what we would talk about if we really come to meet with each other front to front one day. I feel satisfied and enjoy having online friends in the virtual world with imagination. Happy posting and take care.

Most of my online friends will stay online as most of them live too far away and too far apart for me to meet them in person. A few I talk to on the phone, but distance and different time zones make that difficult as well. So I chat w/them and exchange email and leave it at that.

I have never met my online friend in person and to be really frank I don't want this to happen ever.

I don't think I would trust anyone enough to meet them in person. They have some sicko's out there. I would love to be on the team that catches those weird people though. Like they have on TV where someone says they are 14 years old and their parents are going out of town. I think it is so funny the stories these people tell to try and get out of it. You been caught rofl.

i think it is not necessarily to meet your online friend in person,there are many friends which make around the world some around our locatity,we can share just by understanding there words,if it is possible you meet occasionally them in person when you are your friend place,or if you think it is necessarily that you would like to meet your friend ,but it is risk,you think about carefully before you meet them

nope,i prefer to talk with my friend online than actually met them in person..plus it's much safer than to meet them to actually to found them to be a con man/woman.

Yes,I have online friends but I am not interested to meet them in person.Just online friends sharing ideas and do some questions and answers. I don't trust stranger!

Well, if my online friends live the same city, maybe I will meet them in person. But, not everybody I really wanna meet. if we talk very happy online, and to be a close online friend. I think I will meet him or her. Because, I think if we have a funny conversation online, we'll have it face to face too. Once, I met one online friend in person. We have a very funny conversation, and we decide to meet each other, and we did. We're having a very very funny conversation just like we're online. And, what a coincidence! We were in the same University! We have the same taste of something! Both of us thought that is amazing conversation, and we in good relationship right now.

No But I have talked to a few of them on the Phone. I have met some nice people here on Mylot. I have sent a few freinds different things they have send me different things.

I have met a few online people in the real world but for the most part I don't feel it's safe. The difference with those that I have met are that they were colleagues and we all attended the same convention together.

no, i have never met any of my friends on mylot but i would like to. i think that would be fun.

Hello rakesh284, I think that it is important for you to meet your online friends, if you want the relationships to develop and grow. It could be however that you are perfectly happy with how the online relationship is and that you think that meeting would add nothing or possibly endanger it. Personally I have become very fond of some of my internet contacts and I am glad to say that I have met some of them in person and that it has gone even better than I had imagined. This makes me even more enthusiastic about meeting my other good online-friends. This technology is all very recent and these type of online-relationships are a new phenomenon, so I am constantly surprised by how "real" they are becoming in our lives. However, my initial experiences are positive and I see it as a great way to meet new people in person.... Happy Easter. Umart

I don't even know if there are any near me, I've never met any on line friends. There are a couple I'd like to get to know better.

I have met a few people in person that I initially met through the internet but they are not currently part of my life. Internet relationships serve a particular purpose and don't always transcend to "real" life.