Net friend??

I have met a lovely friend on the net. I met him in a chat room. He was the only one who came with his very own name. I have introduced him to my family, he has come and stayed with us, he loves my children. This happens very rarely. He is wonderful and very helpful. Although he stays far, we still keep in contact with each other.

I have a female cousin who got her bf from US thru the internet. The guy visited her and meet with her family sometime end of last year. The guy is coming again and they have plans of getting married. I have also a netfriend who got her bf thru the net and she's already married with him. I have some netfriends, but I have never met anyone of them in person, whether its a man or woman. I guess we have to be cautious with people on net especially those we met in chatrooms because we really dont know what they are up to. Most of the time, many are posing as different person, but I'm not generalizing... there are exceptions.

I too have not met with any of net friends. Neigher I have received such offer till date. If someone propose to meet, then definitely meeting will be organised in future. Nothing wrong in meeting net friends.

The first time i use Yahoo Messenger i met a good man who had taught me a lot about internet. Coz that was my first time so everytime i have some querries i turned to him. We have been together in the net for more than a year and i believe the friendship that we got is now in the real meaning of the word Friend. I can always rely on his help and advices. The networld can be real too it depends on how we are accepting it to our present world.

i used to meet alot of people over the internet, than befriend with them or some girl i do date. but that was a long time ago over like 5 years ago, since than i met maybe like one or two, to hang out, no one every become close friend.

I'm sorry, easy. I know I shouldn't state my response here. You see, this is my first time to have vrtual friends. And I have never meet anyone yet. Mylot is the only forum that I joined. But its pretty amazing to have friends from all over the world. I have a close contact with some of them and can't described this unexplained connection that I have with them. If given the chance, I will gladly meet them.

I haven't personally met any of my friends form the net, but my son meets lots of them and they come to stay with us for holidays. I have had people from all over the world come to stay with us and I have always enjoyed their company. My daughter met her husband on the net and my eldest son met his wife on the net. They are all happily married and I hope this will continue for the rest of their lives.

I have met a lot of people but I have never physically met them yet. I have been to skeptical I guess.

I once joined a yahoo group called weddings at works. It’s a group for those preparing for their wedding. It’s a wonderful group. We all know that wedding preparations is stressful, so we became the support system for each other. We help each other source out our wedding suppliers, we give feedbacks for those wedding suppliers and it’s even our venue where we can rant about almost anything that stresses us. I gained a lot of friends from this yahoo group. I’ve met some of them 2-3 times already. Some of them became my close friends and even after our wedding is over, we still remained friends and we still keep in touch. We sometimes go out to have dinner or coffee, we send each other emails just to say hi or how are they doing. I never thought I would gain true friends from the net but I did and I was happy to have found them.

i have to say i 'm a bit selfish,i never went to see any of my friends cos i haven't got enough time and money to do that,plus every time i go on holiday i go with my friends and.... but once two girls they come from france we had a lot of fun and it was a great experience however they stayed in my friends house cos at the time i had house mates and not enough room for them,but i have to tell you we are still friends,they wanted to come for xmas but somehow they changed their mind,this summer we go to see them.

But when I was barely 10 or 11 I changed schools and I was lonely a lot. I spent a lot of my time on this online journalling website; something like a precursor to myspace but it was more geared towards writing instead of exhibitioning yourself to strangers (nothing against myspace). I met a lot of people but one friend in particular I spoke to almost daily for years, who was my closest friend and confidant for much of my adolescence. We have talked about meeting and we have sworn to include the other in our weddings but we rarely talk anymore and its not uncommon for a year or so to go by with no contact. lately she contacted me to say that she was having a baby! She is coming to Florida where i will get to see her in person. She feels like a long lost friend though rather than someone I have never laid eyes on.

Yes, this is very true that while using the internet we have the ability to meet people from different parts of the world. This to me is such a blessing to have this great wave of communication. I have yet to meet anyone from this form of communication. In my own analysis I truly have no net friends to show for, or have proof of net friends this to most can be devastating and detrimental to ones self-esteem.. "Oh how it must feel to be damaged goods." Alas,.. I have no wonderful stories to share, just wonderful banter and communication.

yup have met some of my friends here from the net and that was from my mirc days before weve set up a group and has done some things which we never thought we would be able to do gave to charity even if it happened once only it was never repeated it was fun and upto now i still have contact with them

I met my partner online. We first started talking in a chatroom. He had a girlfriend, I'd already split with my partner at that time. His girlfriend treated him like crap, and eventually broke it off with him. He was devastated, and I spent many hours talking to him about it. We gradually got closer and eventually I realized that I felt more than just "friendly" feelings for him, and so I worked up the courage to tell him that. I thought I'd blown it at that point because he disappeared for a couple of days. Three days after, I got an email from him. He said that he felt something for me too, and we got around to arranging for me to visit him in Canada (I lived in the UK.) I spent 4 wonderful weeks with him, flew back to the UK for 6 weeks to get my affairs in order, then flew back out to be with him. 3 years later, we're still together, and arranging our Wedding for next year. I've also met a couple of friends from the internet. One girl lives here in BC. We're going to vacation with her and her young boy this Easter. My kids love going up there. I also met another of my friends, and stayed with him in Ireland for a week or so before flying out to Canada for the first visit with my partner.

I have met quite a few of my online friends and one family has even adopted us as granny granddad and uncle as they have no family of their own , It was quite funny as they called me wee for a while instead of my christian name , as that was what they called me for quite some time , xx

I have met lots of people on the internet. I also initially met my husband online via a chat room. Little did we know that we actually lived in the same neighbourhood and he knew of my brothers and I knew some of his friends. We met in person and all the rest is history. :)

i met my boyfriend on net.after several months sharing thoughts on net we met in person. NOw we're on our 1 year relationship now.:)

i also seldom to meet the net friends, but now my girlfriend is know from the net,we know each other from the net and been together now,lol

Personally through orkut i have lts of penpals you could call as i have never seen them in life.I haven't met anyone,it's not because i am skeptical but i find myself different person at different places,when i am on orkut i feel i am talking in real as soon as i snap out of the computer i have a different circle and i don't recall things happened earlier .it's like maintaining different profiles and restricting them to their own boundary.Net friends is a good idea it always bring a smile on your face when you talk to new people.it feels nice when people ask about you personally,you feel yourself more priveleged.

I have made friends on the internet but have never been brave enough to actually meet them in real life. On the internet people are hidden; you are free to be who or what you want to be. As a single woman I wouldn't want to put myself in the position were I was potentially in any danger.